A bit of dress sense 3

1. [Match]

See if you can guess these uses of clothes!

(Examples
He has recently set up his own business outfit.
Some banks cap the amount of money they allow students to borrow to about £2,000.
Also zip – energy, vigour – “He’s full of zip – for someone of his age, he’s amazing.” “She doesn’t seem to have much zip these days.”
She got the boot for claiming overtime for work she never did.
stealing money from the till.
Steven has been booted out of college.
Hey, put a sock in it, will you? I’m trying to work here.
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Answers for Quiz [1].

• 1. spend or provide your own money for some project (correct)
• 2. unfair; disregarding the rules (correct)
• 3. imagine what it must be like being in another’s predicament or situation (correct)
• 4. using to mean a situation is now the opposite of what it was, especially because someone who was weak now has power
  (correct)
• 5. a set of clothes worn for a particular occasion or activity; also informal for an organization, company, team (correct)
• 6. INFORMAL HUMOROUS
  used to tell someone to be quiet or stop making so much noise
  (correct)
• 7. keep sth a secret (correct)
• 8. cut your expenditure (correct)
• 9. INFORMAL – kick someone when they are already on the ground; make a bad situation worse, by being critical or unkind (correct)
• 10. small compartment at the front of a car (correct)
• 11. – verb – put a limit on the amount of money that can be charged or spent in connection with a particular activity (correct)
• 12. You are in a trying situation, so I don’t envy you. (correct)
• 13. small bunch of flowers worn for instance at a wedding (correct)
• 14. INFORMAL – to sing or play sth loudly and without any particular talent
  (correct)
• 15. INFORMAL – lose your job, usually because you have done something wrong or badly (correct)
• 16. INFORMAL – be quiet, shut up! (correct)