Gd4 Flashcards
Shall I give a piece of
my mind
The companies involved are not going to cry stinking
fish for sell
An egomaniac
A
She looked at the reflection of herself and pursed
her lips disgustedly
He lounged on the steps,
pouting
It is a sad day when a politician loses his mind and
pouts and cries like a spoiled eight year old brat because he did not get the way he wanted
A lorry backed into the wall and buckled
the gate
A weak person may buckle under
the strain
The rent is
astronomical
It is a perfect place to
unwind
Midget
hockey
Diversity is only beautiful when it is
inclusive
The repertoire of BTB has been well played
out, and the academic muscle, as it were, of both the teachers and students has been nicely flexed
Some of our new industries are reaching critical
mass
The buzzing sound grated on
her nerves
To go with the
punches
He was apprehended in Hong Kong on Friday night in a
globally-coordinated raid
Tsang, who was convicted of several offences in absentia in the UK, was the subject of a global manhunt that narrowed down his whereabouts after an international
arrest warrant was issued under his name
He was found guilty in absentia of two counts of rape and two counts of sexual assault by penetration, and was facing the
prospect of a lengthy prison sentence after his first trial ended in a conviction months earlier
He was not initially considered a flight risk as the judge at the first trial ordered him to surrender
his British passport, pay a bond, wear an electronic tag, observe a curfew and attend regular court hearings
Tsang conformed to all
the mandates
Just days before his second trial was due to
take place, Tsang is known to have tried to sell an iPhone
His last known visit to Hong Kong was in January 2013, as his Facebook posts
attest
Many of these claims do not stand up to
close scrutiny
It speaks
volumes about
Our subway system is a marvel in
motion compared with its counterparts
You think taxi drivers have
attitude here? It is all relative
To dodge suitcase-wheeling
hordes of mainland tourists
The money-grubbing
culture in Hong Kong
My answer is a resounding
yes
Foreigners lining up for
residency here
To chase up a tax
bill
It is so smooth and
hassle-free
Neighbourhoods that may be poor and
rundown but are steeped in proud tradition
That might suggest
otherwise
Tipsy
revellers
You will feel a chill
in the air
Hong Kong tutorial school tries to poach
top teacher from rival institution
Has earned a reputation for being travel
pests
To bare all at famous world
monuments
To pose in the
buff
The company was slapped with
a fine
Some, though, has caused a stink by relieving
themselves in inappropriate places
The Colosseum of in Rome has been the victim of
a spate of vandalism
Drunken
escapades
It is rather the worse for wear, very grainy
with pronounced film defects
Getting officials hot under the collar over
their frisky public frolics
WTO, an organization both lauded
and vilified with equal intensity by various groups with concerns about trade policy
The EU maintained its intransigent
position with regard to agricultural trade
A common fault
line exits across many issue
To trick them into
thinking
Argentina and Brazil dwarf Paraguay and Uruguay
in economic size
Compound
the confusion
Great result in school open
doors
Life does not always unfold so
neatly. Studious, rule-following youngster do not necessarily come out ahead in the long run
Kids swotting
for GCSEs
The luxurious office accentuated the manager’s position in the
pecking order
He had been flogged and
branded on the foreheads
Critically injured racehorses are humanely
euthanized by lethal injection
Spend the bulk of waking
lives at work
We are like moths to the
light when it comes to emotional energy
Newly minted JDs seek
employment in banks
Encounters are likely to fall
flat from the start and are difficult if not impossible to recoup
Boring worker
bees
Corporate drones
A
Without rhyme or reason his mood
changed
He is a shoo-in for
re-election
Cuff
link
They reported gravitating toward high-energy candidate because they felt their own stocks of energy were
depleted during the recruitment process
You have been here for a while and are
jaded
It really pumps you
up
Such energy-boosting sparks of physical attraction could help explain why in such firms candidates paired with a
cross-sex rather than a same-sex often come out better in evaluation
A halo effect that cast a
positive light on evaluation
Interviewers tend to lower the technical bar for candidates with whom they had
great sparks
He argued strongly for rejecting the candidate who was
then “dinged”
I tried to find locations slightly off
the beaten track
The Alan we saw was friendly and brimming with confidence. He positive vocabulary
bespoke positive thinking
Alan sets himself no boundary and traverses
research, business, literary creation and publishing
Xi has been known to burnish his populist
credentials at home during simple dumpling meals at communal tables in workers’ restaurant
Cutting it fine - sorry - here is the
first lesson material
Why did you go to that lame school? Because they gave me a
full ride
At odds of 16-1, and with White displaying splendid form throughout the first five days of action, it began to look like very
prescient gambling
What are the betting
odds that a certain students is behind the leak
It is best to accept that some inconveniences are part
and parcel of travel
I took a straw
poll among my immediate colleagues
With this in mind, I conducted a quick
straw poll
His dreams are wrong-headed and he clutches at straws, missing the
salvation that is offered him
When interventionists resort to that kind of argument, they are
grasping/ clutching/ catching at straws
His impenetrable eyes and inscrutable countenance give
little away
He was reluctant to countenance the use
of force
He was a really big
cheese in the business world
The LPAT exercise has cast a sickly
pall over English generally
