Land and sea phrases A
1. [Match]
Pick the definitions which reflect the meaning of the phrases!
Answers for Quiz [1].
- 1. have two choices, both of them equally unpleasant or inconvenient (correct)
- 2. a large amount of food which is kept in storage instead of being sold, so that prices for it do not fall (correct)
- 3. humorous – be awake or to be alive (correct)
- 4. plural noun – a person’s ability to keep their balance while walking on a moving ship and not feel ill / seasick (correct)
- 5. Japan (correct)
- 6. a very small amount compared to the amount needed (correct)
- 7. disapproving – be unrealistic, thinking that things which are completely impossible might happen
(correct) - 8. make a slight difficulty seem like a serious problem (correct)
- 9. phrasal verb informal – finally be in a particular place, state or situation, especially without having planned it
(correct)
- 10. The part of Norway, Sweden and Finland inside the Arctic Circle where the sun is in the sky very late at night in the summer (correct)
- 11. be successful or lucky, especially after a period of not having success or luck
(correct)
- 12. confused (correct)