Đặc ngữ (Idioms and Expressions) luyện thi Đại Học Test 10 pptx

Đặc ngữ Idioms and Expressions luyện thi Đại Học Test 10 1.. beat about the bush : nói loanh hoanh, nói vòng vo tam quốc e.g.. close shaves : những lần thoát hiểm trong đường tơ kẽ tóc

Đặc ngữ (Idioms and Expressions) luyện thi Đại Học

Test 10

1 beat about the bush : nói loanh hoanh, nói vòng vo tam quốc

e.g Don't beat about the bush!

Thôi cái trò nói vòng vo tam quốc đó đi!

2 bucket down : mưa xối xả, mưa như trút nước

e.g It's been bucketing down all day

Trời mưa xối xả nguyên ngầy

3 close shaves : những lần thoát hiểm trong đường tơ kẽ tóc

e.g Phew, that was a close shave

Phùuuu, thiệt là một lần thoát hiểm trong đường tơ kẽ tóc

4 drop a brick : nói lỡ lời

e.g The boss came in and dropped a brick

Ông chủ đi vô và nói lỡ lời

5 get butterflies in one's stomach : cảm thấy bồn chồn

e.g Tom told us how his son gets butterflies in his stomach

before he plays soccer

Tom kể tụi tôi về sự bồn chồn của con ổng trước khi nó

chơi đá banh

Practice: Use one of the five expressions above to fill in each

space

1 I found out that I had just _ when saying that I met her

boyfriend at the restaurant because he had told her that he went

to an important meeting at the company

2 Don't waste my time Please stop _ and tell me what you

want

3 We had no sooner set off for a picnic than it started to _

4 Every student _ his _ before an important

examination

5 When he was young, he was an excellent spy He sometimes

tells me about his _ before he retired and moved to this city

KEY (các bạn tô đen)

1 dropped a brick 2 beating about the bush 3 bucket down

4 gets butterflies in / stomach 5 close shaves