1. [Match]

Link the examples with the dictionary definitions:

(To have a square meal – satisfying food that fills you and provides you with all the different types of food that your body needs in order to stay healthy
If costs, prices, etc. spiral, they increase faster and faster. They can spiral downwards, in which case they go down faster and faster. This is still better than spiralling out of control…..
straight talking – direct, open communication; to do some straight talking = to communicate directly and very openly
to keep in shape. = to stay fit, exercise
on the box = on TV
Let’s just stay in and watch the box = watch television
pyramid selling noun – in business, when someone buys the right to sell a company’s goods / services, and then sells the goods to other people. These people then sell the goods to other people. At each transaction there is a profit margin, so the income comes from people buying the rights to trade, not from the products or services.
go/run round in circles – keep doing or talking about the same thing without achieving anything
go round – be enough, be sufficient
I don’t know if the cake will go round – i.e. if there will be sufficient for everyone
The food didn’t go round – there was not enough food for everyone.
Moving to Manchester involved a very steep learning curve.
a (steep) learning curve – noun = the rate of someone’s progress in acquiring a new skill or getting to grips with changes or demands.
Eg Yes, it was a bit of a learning curve…. – i.e. it was very hard getting to grips with a certain task / job.
Moving to Manchester for that job involved a very steep learning curve – I was lost for the first 6 months!
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Answers for Quiz [1].

• 1. satisfying food that fills you and provides you with all the different types of food that your body needs in order to stay healthy (correct)
• 2. direct, open communication (correct)
• 3. on TV (correct)
• 4. keep doing or talking about the same thing without achieving anything (correct)
• 5. increase faster and faster (correct)
• 6. do a certain amount of exercise to stay fit (correct)
• 7. A business idea which involves people recruiting others who pay for the right to sell a product / service (correct)
• 8. be insufficient
  (correct)
• 9. demanding rate required to acquire a new skill or get to grips with changes or demands (correct)