Why We Can’t Just Pick a Movie

Question 1

Sheer amount

Answer 1

adjective - noun

Amount that is very large and its consequences

_{The sheer amount of work ahead of us is worrying.}

_{The sheer amount of questions overwhelmed her.}

Question 2

Abundance

Answer 2

noun

Large amount of something

_{There is an abundance of examples.}

_{We have an abundance of good restaurants in Tokyo.}

Question 3

Rabbit hole

Answer 3

noun

An increasingly strange / complicated situation

_{When I go onto YouTube I always fall into some new rabbit hole.}

_{That new movie really took me down a strange rabbit hole.}

Question 4

Lower your expectations

Answer 4

verbal phrase

Be prepared to get something less than what you want / need

_{If you want to move to NYC you’ll need to lower your expectations.}

_{I try to lower my expectations at the start of a vacation.}

Question 5

Counterintuitive

Answer 5

adjective

Opposite to common-sense, but true

_{It seems counterintuitive that eating less food will give you more energy.}

_{Many things she said seemed counterintuitive.}

Question 6

Set the bar high / low

Answer 6

idiom

To set a new standard

_{He set the bar very high with that presentation.}

_{We might need to set the bar low for new employees.}

Question 7

Something doesn’t hold much weight

Answer 7

idiom

Something doesn’t make sense

_{What the President said didn’t hold weight.}

_{I don’t think that their story holds much weight.}

Question 8

The odds are …

Answer 8

phrase

Probably

_{The odds are that it will rain again tomorrow.}

_{She is happy, but the odds are that she will quit her job.}

Question 9

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