Phrases To talk about Inventions

Question 1

Catch on

Answer 1

To become popular
Hybrid cars are really catching on.
گرفتن
catch on / kˈætʃ ˈɑːn /
Verb
- understand, usually after some initial difficulty
She didn’t know what her classmates were plotting but finally caught on
syn: catch on, get wise, get onto, tumble, latch on, cotton on, twig, get it
- become popular
This fashion caught on in Paris

Question 2

Turn something on its head

Answer 2

مثل وارونه كردن كتاب
Changing our understanding of it ( an an idea)
This invention is turning the way we do things on it’s head
e.g:

• Cryptocurrnecies such as Bitcoin, Etherium. etc. are turning the way we buy things on it’s head.
• Social Medias such as instagram, whataspp and telegram have turned the way people interact with each other (Communicate) on its head.

Question 3

Take the world by storm

Answer 3

To become very popular
very fashionable

Wearables (apple watch, Fitness Tracker)
Wearables are taking the world by storm.

Question 4

To be a game changer

Answer 4

Something that significantly changes the way we do things

The internet has been (is) a game changer. It changes the way we communicate with each other. We can connect with the people all over the world.

Question 5

To take someone by surprise

Answer 5

to surprise, startle someone

• 3D printers have taken everyone by surprise.
• 3D printers are now being used to create human organs for organ transplant.
  -3D printers are going to take everybody by surprise.

Question 6

To be cutting edge

Answer 6

Its very advanced, innovative and leading the field

leading edge
Robot waiter:

Very popular in Japan, they come to your table take order and bring you food using AI.
I think Robot waiters are cutting edge.

Question 7

It won’t be long before something happen

Answer 7

in the near future something will happen

Hybrid cars are great, but they are just of the tip of the iceberg, it won’t be long before we have flying cars.

It won’t be long before, we have driverless cars.

Question 8

Go down in History as something

Answer 8

• This will go down in history as…

= in the future we will see this as …
I think Virtual reallity will go down in history as the most important invention ever.