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1. [Match]

Match the meanings if you can!

(You may hear an English person say something along the lines of ‘He’s had more cars (jobs / chances / fresh starts etc) than I’ve had hot dinners!’ It is an informal, usually humorous phrase used to indicate a great deal of something.)

Answers for Quiz [1].

• 1. to become suddenly too frightened to do something you had planned to do, especially something important such as getting married (correct)
• 3. the allocation of office facilities to workers only when it is required or on a rota system (correct)
• 3. to be intentionally unfriendly to someone and give them no attention (correct)
• 4. to be bought quickly and in large numbers (correct)
• 5. to be negative about someone’s ideas or plans (correct)
• 6. recently revealed news or information (correct)
• 7. to not interest or excite you (correct)
• 8. take advantage of an opportunity as soon as it occurs, in case it doesn’t come again (correct)
• 9. when a person in business telephones or visits a possible customer to try to sell them something without being asked by the customer to do so (correct)
• 10. be in trouble or a difficult situation (correct)
• 11. phrase used when someone wants to allude to a large quantity (correct)
• 12. without feeling or mercy (correct)