13B

Question 1

come round

Answer 1

to change your opinion of something, often influenced by another person’s opinion

Question 2

talk shop

Answer 2

to talk about things relating to your work when you are in a social situation, especially in a way that is not interesting to other people

Question 3

at ease

Answer 3

1- to be relaxed

2- to stande with their feet apart and their hands behind their back

Question 4

What’s your take on that?

Answer 4

What do you think about that?

Question 5

waffle

Answer 5

to talk or write a lot without giving any useful information or any clear answers

Question 6

hearsay

Answer 6

information that you have heard but do not know to be true

Question 7

weather the storm

Answer 7

to successfully deal with a very difficult problem

Question 8

hectic

Answer 8

full of activity, or very busy and fast

Question 9

relegation

Answer 9

the act of moving sth ex. a football team to a lower division

Question 10

stark

Answer 10

empty, simple, or obvious, especially without decoration or anything that is not necessary

Question 11

austerity

Answer 11

a bad economic condition that does not allow luxuries or a difficult economic situation caused by a government reducing the amount of money it spends

Question 12

saves and loans shortcut

Answer 12

S and L

Question 13

Schadenfreude

Answer 13

a feeling of pleasure or satisfaction when something bad happens to someone else

Question 14

cha

Answer 14

tea

Question 15

cheesy

Answer 15

of bad quality or in bad taste

Question 16

put your foot in it (in your mouth)

Answer 16

to say something by accident that embarrasses or upsets someone

Question 17

saturated market + antonym

Answer 17

full market

antonym gap market

Question 18

go on strike

Answer 18

start strike

Question 19

work-to-rule

Answer 19

a form of protest in which employees do exactly what is stated in their contracts, and nothing more, in order to slow down production

Question 20

1- go-slow

2- slowdown

Answer 20

an occasion when employees work more slowly and with less effort than usual in order to try to persuade an employer to agree to higher pay or better working conditions

Question 21

undertake to

Answer 21

1-to do or begin to do something, especially something that will take a long time or be difficult
2-to promise that you will do something

Question 22

undergo

Answer 22

to experience something that is unpleasant or something that involves a change

Question 23

scale sth down

Answer 23

to make something smaller than it was or smaller than it was planned to be

Question 24

fourfold

Answer 24

four times as big or as much

Question 25

corny

Answer 25

(especially of jokes, films, stories, etc.) showing no new ideas or too often repeated, and therefore not funny or interesting

Question 26

cushy job

Answer 26

very easy job

Question 27

verge of

Answer 27

the edge or border of something

Question 28

inundate

Answer 28

to give someone so much work or so many things that they cannot deal with it all

Question 29

unruly

Answer 29

difficult to control or manage

Question 30

barred from

Answer 30

banned from

Question 31

rapid increase, growth

Answer 31

shot up (ex. sales, children)

Question 32

be like a red rag to a bull

Answer 32

to be certain to produce an angry or violent reaction

Question 33

overstretch

Answer 33

to make someone or something do more than they can or should do, to spend or borrow more money than you can pay

Question 34

volatile

Answer 34

likely to change suddenly and unexpectedly, especially by getting worse or by becoming angry

Question 35

err

Answer 35

to make a mistake or to do something wrong

Question 36

scale sth down/ back

Answer 36

to make something smaller than it was or smaller than it was planned to be

Question 37

bottom line

Answer 37

the final line in the accounts of a company or organization, stating the total profit or loss that has been made

Question 38

margin

Answer 38

the profit made on a product or service or the amount by which one thing is different from another

Question 39

to err is human (to forgive divine)

Answer 39

something that you say that means that it is natural for people to make mistakes and it is important to forgive people when they do

Question 40

give sb an edge (over/on sb/sth)

Answer 40

to give someone an advantage in a particular situation

Question 41

agenda

Answer 41

a list of aims/ possible future achievements/ matters to be discussed at a meeting

Question 42

err on the side of caution

Answer 42

to decide to take care rather than take any risks

Question 43

divine

Answer 43

connected with a god, or like a god

Question 44

chair

Answer 44

(the official position of) a person in charge of a meeting, official group or organization

Question 45

take the minutes

Answer 45

to write down what is said at a meeting and by whom

Question 46

AOB

Answer 46

abbreviation for any other business: used at the end of the list of subjects to be discussed at a meeting

Question 47

retail

Answer 47

the activity of selling goods to the public, usually in shops