Bottled Water Flashcards
Refreshing
Refreshing in this context means making You feel cooler after being hot.
There’s nothing more refreshing than an ice cooled bottle of water straight out of the vending machine.
I enjoy a refreshing cup of tea in the mornings.
Enriched
Enriched means improving the quality of sth by adding to it.
It’s enriched with salts & minerals that are very beneficial to your health.
Breakfast cereals are enriched with vitamins & minerals.
Manufacture sth
If you manufacture sth, you make it in large amounts in a factory.
The company manufactures Willington boots… .
Manufactures the demand for bottled water … .
Scare sb off
If You scare sb off, You make them go away by frightening them.
The dog barked fiercely & scared off the two burglars.
Regulated
Regulated means controlled.
She claims that tap water is more regulated than bottled water.
The sales of tobacco is tightly regulated by the governments.
Sth comes up trumps
If sth comes up trumps, it means it produces a good result often unexpectedly.
So tap water comes up trumps.
My lottery ticket came up trumps again.
Why don’t you just get a glass of water from the kitchen tap?
People are choosing to buy bottled water @ the supermarkets rather than fizzy drinks.
@ the top end, there’s water from a 4000 years-old Norwegian Iceberg ,it costs around 80£ a bottle.
As cheap as that!
I’ll pop out & get some later.