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
The justification for the framing of Hong Kong English as rubbish English, however, appears
thin
Grammarians bewail its
demise though
Hong Kong police launch
appeal to find missing 10-year-old
Cats with a finicky
appetite
His actions defy
belief
The outfit defied accurate
description
He glowered at him, defying her to
mock him
Why not? Accounts vary. Some say it_s because the authorities were on the train; some say that it was safer to jump off early than to try to
thread through the police at a station
Her daughter was decked out in ghoulish
attire and make-up for Halloween festivities
Swift ranked a distant
second
The duo endured a frosty
relationship
Shaken our society to its
core
The sight of one of the Anfield legends back at Melwood will be sure to get thoughts
racing and tongues wagging
It is a regressive
step
Nostalgia has no place in the ultra-competitive Premier League, where the fine margins dictate that all decisions must be taken for the greater
good of the team, rather than with individuals in mind
Behind the affability, Klopp is a
shrewd operator
As jovial as he can be, he also possesses that ruthlessness that all great
coaches share
Keeping up with the
Joneses
These ex-workers are spilling beans on the worst items you can get from famous fast food restaurants
A
Putting people in front of the boss can work
wonders
Missed the tutorials without
leave
May I please book an appointment for them to attend
before you
Toothless sanctions will otherwise bring the attendance requirement into
disrepute
I was thinking of matching them in front of the Professor for a stern
pep talk, if there is a second time, which three may well be
The seven absentees are not
‘running scared’
No ‘stick’ at this stage; rather, an appeal to
their better nature
The trio of poets will grace the recital with their
presence and poems
The recital will be a rare
treat for language and literature lovers
May 15 was pencilled
in as the date for the meeting
Let’s deck the HSMC campus with literary
gems ahead of the festive season
When he said he was not going back to the former trade, which he regards as mere existence, he is articulating
the disjunction between dreams and reality
Look wistfully at our
contemporaries who made it
Spillover
effect
Brady drifted past three defenders, nutmegging
the third with ease
A game of
rondo
There was a huge security presence but the overall
atmosphere, though massively partisan, was good-natured
Responded with rounds of
jeering
Chan donned a red shirt and a headscarf emblazoned
with “We are Hong Kong”
On a very subdued
night
The goalkeeper handed an opportunity to Harry Kane with a badly sliced
clearance, although his Tottenham club-mate’s attempt to capitalise was similarly lacking in quality
Kane’s measured through-ball found Rooney, whose clever footwork took him beyond
the defender to lash narrowly wide
You cannot waltz in here and bark
orders at me
His eyebrows knitted in
confusion
Staff were bussed in and
out of the factory
I am not sure what value it adds to determining public, or for that
matter private, policy
The teaching of this course strictly adheres for the principles of formal linguistics or formal language theory for that matter. A formal language is a set of
strings of symbols on which rules enforce
Opting for no-frills
weddings
He parents had demanded a “bride price” (like a dowry, except the groom pays, not the bride’s family) of 18000 and would not
budge. I obliged
Nuptials
planners
Plan to get
hitched
People are either putting off marriage or
forgoing it altogether
People even hire extras to
bolster numbers
Hongkongers bust out winter wear as
temperatures plunge
Some make humble choices, while others don’t mind splurging for an extravagant ride. This list includes a wide range of cars, from wildly expensive
sports vehicles to modest, everyday roadsters
Others had on only singlets and cotton trousers as they
jumped into the water
Withholding of
payment
Drooping
eyelids
This is not a rags-to-riches
story
One of the other underlying pillars of this dream was the concept of Never Having to Work Again. Like somehow an eternity of leisure was going to provide the existential bliss I had been longing for all along. I thought about that a lot. I did all the math: Hey, if I stuff all the money in a prudent mix
of stock and bonds, I should be able to live a comfortable, if not extravagant, lifestyle until the end of my days without lifting another finger
Expectations, not outcomes, govern the happiness of your
perceived reality
Attitude determines your
altitude
On a numbers of wards bathrooms were separated only by a small curtain it concertina
door from the main ward
That will teach him to turn up
late for training
High cheekbones, fuller lips, big eyes, and thin
chin are associated with sexiness in women
How do you like
it
Never crossed
my mind
Going to Harvard cannot beat
this view
Mind if I join the
fun
Where do you pitch your
tent
Grab a
hold
He finally badgered her into
going
Women remove their veils and
abayas in gym
He sticks his hands out the window and flips
me the bird
We rode through a stream, enjoyed a few bursts of speed and skidding
switchbacks and freewheeled into the shanty town of Yolosa
I am not the sort of person who would freewheel
his way to the end of a contract
He has been spared the
sack
Autobiographers who want to tell about themselves, without giving the whole show away, have discovered there is more than
one way to approach it
Paternal
aunt
The bubbles of joy are easily
burst when the home is unhappy
My mother soon noticed this tendency of mine to “give
the show away” by blushing
One cross word from a teacher could make me choke with the hurt of it, though I always fought
back my tears
Each school change brought the
agony of meeting new classmates
Yet somehow I managed to come
out in the top six in the examination
There was some latent strength and had not yet come into my
consciousness
I dreaded the thought of leaving and
going to university
A quiet pen-pushing
job in the civil service
I dreaded the
thought of standing in front of a class of students who might be ill-behaved
A poetry
squash
The freshers
squash
My college mother, as we called the senior students who were appointed to
advise freshmen
Are we reflecting an attitude that turns the other cheek, an attitude that goes the extra
mile in the face of abuse
My father marveled at
the change
I avidly read the bible and tried to carry out
the teaching of Jesus
Disillusionment came
slowly
That made me ripe for the picking by
fundamentalists
I received my first lessons on the chains with which fundamentalism binds
the believers
He always appears at the bicycle
shed
It was too gory for me, even
abhorrent
God had to take responsibility then for a jilted
lover
The shock of that nearly broke me, and it took years to recover from
the blow
Missionary work was at the time out of
the question
I became totally disillusioned, but did not want to ruin my marriage because I had no personal
disregard for my husband
Again I was up against a brick wall. The church agreed, on condition we taught
only the bible
To win converts
to our church
I would have rather have died than
quarrel
I should dress
warmly if I were you
Black clothing flatters older men by disguising some more obvious
degradation of their once wonderful physique
Black gloves, balaclava and full length sleeves and trouser legs complete
the ensemble
This film’s protagonists are cardboard
cut-outs
He deliberately pruned away
details
It does not sound great now, but
just you wait
The are losing money hand
over fist
Start yourself out on the right
foot
The environmental mantra that energy has for too long
been too cheap
Sneak off to a moonlit spot when you’d otherwise be watching something on a
glowing screen
Sing along to cheesy pop music. Enjoy things that are out of style. Make silly
faces. Stop stifling your giggles
Bill Gates mellows
out on weekends
I fancy having a
crack at winning a fourth title
You are a such a
spoilsport
Media hysteria has followed in the wake of all new
developments in youth culture
We are witnessing the information revolution that will change the media as we
know it
The level of remuneration did not result in the collapse of the book trade as
we know it
Due simply to
differences in
Women president raises fewer
hackles
Chart our roadmap to
university and beyond
Will you therefore pleas
account to me by email for your absences by next week
Failing that, I shall book a
meeting for you with
Camera-ready
copy
There are also those times when you have a sneaking suspicion someone_s
taking advantage of your helpfulness
Three simple responses that_ll make those people think twice about dumping
their work onto your plate
You might be really mad the first time someone asks you to take care of something, only to
turn around and spend the entire afternoon schmoozing with people in the kitchen
I_d love to help, but I have to take care of X, Y, and Z first. If my schedule clears up this week,
I_ll definitely let you know how I can pitch in
These tasks are way above your pay
grade
I_d love to help, but since you have a lot of expertise, would you be willing to show me
the ropes
While this task may be second nature to the person tossing it your way, it_s good to
remind him that it_s not to you
The more you like each other, the less likely this person will try to pawn
off his work on you
It_s a hypothetical
win-win
That doesn_t mean you should be taken advantage of just because you_re so willing to go
above and beyond
After all, you_re only being asked because it_s obvious you_re sharp. But once you_ve let your ego
bask in the glory, be an advocate for yourself and do what_s in your own best interest
