English Language Tests-Intermediate level''''s archiveEnglish Slang Idioms (193) pptx

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English Language Tests-Intermediate level's archive

English Slang Idioms (193)

1."You should go to the mall today There are some good

sales and some cut deals on pants I got two pairs

for less than 50 percent of their original cost," Bart told

Melissa

up

bait

rate

cheese

2."I asked you to correct the English errors in my paper

not cut it to You rewrote almost the whole paper

and now it doesn't include the facts that prove my point,"

Jane told Irma

pieces

shingles

fit

oblivion

3."We have had to our expenses to the bone since

Jim lost his job We have even gone so far as to start

riding our bicycles to do errands to save money on gas,"

Laura told Tina

glue

maul

drive

cut

4.I got in big trouble for up during kitchen duty in

Basic Training I was restricted to the base and had to do

extra duty

putting

cutting

forking

buying

5."I am having a hard time with my girlfriend First, she

gets angry with me for not being supportive of her trying to

lose weight Then she gets mad at me for encouraging her

to work out and says that I am implicitly calling her fat by

suggesting that she should exercise I'm damned if I do

and damned if I ," Robby told his best friend

don't

try

doesn't

care

6.He was very happy that he had talked to Steve about

being late He thought that Steve would get angry and

continue to be late but Steve had been to a different

tune ever since their discussion He had been punctual for

every engagement for the last two weeks

humming

dancing

playing

recording

7.He couldn't believe that his friend had backed out He

had him to run through the abandoned house and

his friend had accepted in front of all the neighborhood

kids Now, that he wasn't going to do it, the other kids that

were present at the time, would think his friend was a

wimp

cheered

cackled

dared

tricked

8."Leave my house immediately, Jim My wife told me that

you hit on her and asked her to sleep with you Get out of

my house and never my door again!" Matt yelled

flattened

hang

bothered

darken

9.He always believed that he and his wife would be able to

work through any problem that they encountered Then,

during their last fight, it on him that they didn't agree

on almost anything and that they would not be able to

work things out between them

laughed

dawned

forced

realized

10."The act of marriage, in one form or another, dates

several thousand years," the history professor told

the class

on

away

for

back