CAE week 10

Question 1

to be thick-skinned

Answer 1

sb who can handle much criticism without being affected

Question 2

to be wet behind the ears

Answer 2

lack experience

to be green

Question 3

dog-eared

Answer 3

eselsohr

Question 4

crow’s feet

Answer 4

augenfältchen

Question 5

to kick the bucket

Answer 5

died

Question 6

I smell a rat

Answer 6

to be suspicious

when you feel/sense that sth dishonest is happening

Question 7

to be thin on top

Answer 7

slightly bald

Question 8

madness

Answer 8

to have a screw loose

to be off one’s hand

Question 9

fear

Answer 9

hair-raising

to have kitttens

Question 10

anger

Answer 10

to be hot under one’s collar

to throw a wobbly

Question 11

to pay through the nose

sth cost an arm and a leg

Answer 11

sth is very expensive

Question 12

to talk shop

Answer 12

talking about your work

Question 13

to have the gift of the gab (slang for mouth/ shut your gob)

Answer 13

eloquent

Question 14

to speak off the cuff

Answer 14

improvised

Question 15

to do sth on the spur of the moment

Answer 15

unexpected & unplanned

Question 16

to do sth at the eleventh hour

Answer 16

at the very last minute

Question 17

to go dutch

Answer 17

to split the bill

Question 18

behind bars

Answer 18

in jail

gaol

Question 19

a rolling stone gathers no moss

Answer 19

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Question 20

every cloud has a .. lining

Answer 20

silver

Question 21

… makes perfect

Answer 21

practice

Question 22

out of the frying pan and into the …

Answer 22

fire

when you escape one problematic situation and end-up in a worse one

Question 23

mutton dressed as lamb

Answer 23

an older woman trying to look younger

Question 24

as keen as

Answer 24

mustard

Question 25

to be hen-pecked

Answer 25

a husband who is constantly nagged and bossed around all the time