Lesson 29

Question 0

Cement

Answer 0

Fix bricks firmly in place and to make relationships more solid

Question 1

Build something/someone up

Answer 1

Praise someone or something in a way that will increase expectations of them

Question 2

Come up against a brick wall

Answer 2

Meet a barrier

Question 3

Ceiling

Answer 3

Suggest a limit to something

Question 4

Glass ceiling

Answer 4

Refer to an invisible barrier that stops people, especially women, from rising to top positions at work

Question 5

Go through the roof

Answer 5

Is used about prices, to increase in a rapid, uncontrolled fashion

Question 6

Hit the roof

Answer 6

Get very angry

Question 7

Window

Answer 7

Opening

Question 8

Go out (of) the window

Answer 8

Depart a quality or idea

Question 9

Tower

Answer 9

Conveys an idea of distance from ordinary people

Question 10

Tower of strength

Answer 10

Extremely strong

Question 11

If a person or thing towers above something or someone

Answer 11

They are either outstandingly tall or outstanding in some other positive way

Question 12

Be a gateway to

Answer 12

Give an opportunity to get somewhere

Question 13

Doing something through/by the black door

Answer 13

Doing it unofficially

Question 14

Behind close doors

Answer 14

No one knows exactly why it is

Question 15

Key

Answer 15

Can be used as a noun to suggest the importance of something