04/06/2025 Flashcards
(35 cards)
The roads are packed
It’s just a checkup
the tabloids
One news story came up in Ekaterinburg
The headline was pure clickbait
She has plaited hair
They did it on purpose / it deliberately
It’s bound to cause problems
the hard shoulder (roads)
The crazy drivers aggressively WEAVE through traffic
Keeping up with the Joneses
He bought two TV sets on finance
He splashed out on two big TV sets
He asked to borrow money from me / He ask me to loan/lend him some money
I offended him by not giving him money
He was offended by me not giving him money
If you buy something expensive in Russia, you need to throw a party
It was a way of weaning him off from borrowing money from me
He’s upset with me
I gave him the power of attorney over my business finances
It would have seemed to him that I lost trust in him
An eagle-eyed accountant
She was a very blunt person. She says things as they are
They kept track of all the debts in a book
