13A

Question 1

to change your opinion of something, often influenced by another person’s opinion

Answer 1

come round

Question 2

to talk about things relating to your work when you are in a social situation, especially in a way that is not interesting to other people

Answer 2

talk shop

Question 3

1- to be relaxed

2- to stande with their feet apart and their hands behind their back

Answer 3

at ease

Question 4

What do you think about that?

Answer 4

What’s your take on that?

Question 5

to talk or write a lot without giving any useful information or any clear answers

Answer 5

waffle

Question 6

information that you have heard but do not know to be true

Answer 6

hearsay

Question 7

to successfully deal with a very difficult problem

Answer 7

weather the storm

Question 8

full of activity, or very busy and fast

Answer 8

hectic

Question 9

the act of moving sth ex. a football team to a lower division

Answer 9

relegation

Question 10

How is your business doing?

Answer 10

How’s your business coming along?

Question 11

What are you doing later? What were you doing last week?

Answer 11

What are you up to later?

What did you get up to last week?

Question 12

empty, simple, or obvious, especially without decoration or anything that is not necessary

Answer 12

stark

Question 13

a bad economic condition that does not allow luxuries or a difficult economic situation caused by a government reducing the amount of money it spends

Answer 13

austerity

Question 14

S and L

Answer 14

saves and loans

Question 15

a feeling of pleasure or satisfaction when something bad happens to someone else

Answer 15

Schadenfreude

Question 16

tea

Answer 16

cha

Question 17

of bad quality or in bad taste

Answer 17

cheesy

Question 18

to say something by accident that embarrasses or upsets someone

Answer 18

put your foot in it (in your mouth)

Question 19

full market + antonym

Answer 19

saturated market

antonym gap market

Question 20

start strike

Answer 20

go on strike

Question 21

a form of protest in which employees do exactly what is stated in their contracts, and nothing more, in order to slow down production

Answer 21

work-to-rule

Question 22

an occasion when employees work more slowly and with less effort than usual in order to try to persuade an employer to agree to higher pay or better working conditions

Answer 22

1- go-slow

2- slowdown

Question 23

1-to do or begin to do something, especially something that will take a long time or be difficult
2-to promise that you will do something

Answer 23

undertake to

Question 24

to experience something that is unpleasant or something that involves a change

Answer 24

undergo

Question 25

to make something smaller than it was or smaller than it was planned to be

Answer 25

scale sth down

Question 26

four times as big or as much

Answer 26

fourfold

Question 27

(especially of jokes, films, stories, etc.) showing no new ideas or too often repeated, and therefore not funny or interesting

Answer 27

corny

Question 28

very easy job

Answer 28

cushy job

Question 29

People covered ice with wood … they ensured a steady supply.

Answer 29

by which means

Question 30

the edge or border of something

Answer 30

verge of

Question 31

to give someone so much work or so many things that they cannot deal with it all

Answer 31

inundate

Question 32

difficult to control or manage

Answer 32

unruly

Question 33

banned from

Answer 33

barred from

Question 34

shot up (ex. sales, children)

Answer 34

rapid increase, growth

Question 35

to be certain to produce an angry or violent reaction

Answer 35

be like a red rag to a bull

Question 36

to make someone or something do more than they can or should do, to spend or borrow more money than you can pay

Answer 36

overstretch

Question 37

likely to change suddenly and unexpectedly, especially by getting worse or by becoming angry

Answer 37

volatile

Question 38

to make a mistake or to do something wrong

Answer 38

err

Question 39

to make something smaller than it was or smaller than it was planned to be

Answer 39

scale sth down/ back

Question 40

the final line in the accounts of a company or organization, stating the total profit or loss that has been made

Answer 40

bottom line

Question 41

the profit made on a product or service or the amount by which one thing is different from another

Answer 41

margin

Question 42

something that you say that means that it is natural for people to make mistakes and it is important to forgive people when they do

Answer 42

to err is human (to forgive divine)

Question 43

to give someone an advantage in a particular situation

Answer 43

give sb an edge (over/on sb/sth)

Question 44

a list of aims/ possible future achievements/ matters to be discussed at a meeting

Answer 44

agenda

Question 45

to decide to take care rather than take any risks

Answer 45

err on the side of caution

Question 46

connected with a god, or like a god

Answer 46

divine

Question 47

(the official position of) a person in charge of a meeting, official group or organization

Answer 47

chair

Question 48

to write down what is said at a meeting and by whom

Answer 48

take the minutes

Question 49

abbreviation for any other business: used at the end of the list of subjects to be discussed at a meeting

Answer 49

AOB

Question 50

the activity of selling goods to the public, usually in shops

Answer 50

retail