listening

Question 1

i just went for it

Question 2

needle drop

Answer 2

What is a needle drop? A “needle drop” is slang used in the film industry to describe when a pre-existing song is used in a movie. In the best cases, the audio and video become intertwined to the point where people can’t disassociate the song from the film.

Question 3

playing by ear

Answer 3

to do something without special preparation.
- I don’t know how they’ll react to our proposal, so we’ll just have to play it by ear and hope for the best.

to decide how to deal with a situation as it develops, rather than acting according to plans made earlier and to decide what to do when you know what is happening, rather than planning in advance:
- We can’t make a decision yet. Let’s just play it by ear.

Question 4

bail someone out

Answer 4

to jump out of an aircraft with a parachute because the aircraft is going to have an accident:
- The plane’s engine failed and the pilot was forced to bail out.

to stop doing or being involved with something:
- The actor has bailed out of the film after only three weeks’ shooting.

Question 5

heading off to california

Answer 5

1 – Head off é usado antes de mais nada com o sentido de “ir embora” ou “sair/ir (para algum lugar)”. Por exemplo, você poderia dizer: I’m heading off to the shopping mall para dizer que “está saindo para o shopping”.

• I’m heading off now.
• i´ll head off to school at 6:40
• Louise just headed off to the store, but you can probably still catch her, if you leave now.

2 – Outro sentido de head off é “evitar” ou “impedir” que algo ruim aconteça, ou então “se desviar” de algo ruim. (avoid)

• I hope we can head off trouble.
• They worked round the clock to head off the flu epidemic.
• We managed to head off a financial crisis last year, but we may not be so lucky this year.