S02E04

Question 1

Noun

• polyp (a small lump that grows inside your body because of an illness, but is not likely to harm you 息肉）
• balloon payment (= money borrowed that must be paid back in one large sum after several smaller payments have been made)
• valet (= someone who parks your car for you at a restaurant, hotel etc) parker/service/ticket/fees
• bike shorts
• physique (= the size and appearance of someone’s body)
• candor (= the quality of being honest and telling the truth, even when the truth may be unpleasant or embarrassing)
• material (= information or ideas used in books, films etc)
• realty (= real estate)
• index cards

Question 2

Verb

• bomb (= 1. if a play, film, event etc bombs, it is not successful 2. to fail a test very badly)
• work out (= to make your body fit and strong by doing exercises)
• lose (= to remove a part or feature of something that is not necessary or wanted)
• run around (= to be very busy doing many small jobs)
• lean towards sth (= to tend to support, or begin to support, a particular set of opinions, beliefs etc)
• hit it off (with somebody) (= if two people hit it off, they like each other as soon as they meet)
• shave off (the beard)
• babble
• twitch
• look out for sb

Answer 2

I bombed my midterm.
His latest play bombed on Broadway

I tell Cam to lose the bike short. I tell Phil to lose the jokes.

We were all running around like headless chickens.

Canada, the UK and Japan leant towards the US view.

Question 3

Adjective + Adverb

• sketchy-looking (外观粗糙）
• curvaceous (= having an attractively curved body shape – used about women)
• de rigueur (= considered to be necessary if you want to be accepted, fashionable etc – used humorously)
• overcooking
• gutless
• hysterical (= extremely funny) [hilarious]
• off-putting

Answer 3

• You’re a gutless weasel.
• I always found your beard off-putting.

Question 4

Collocation (verb+noun)

• gasp for breath
• does an impression of sb (= if you do an impression of a famous person, you copy their speech or behaviour in order to make people laugh)

Answer 4

Jean does a great impression of Madonna

Question 5

Collocation (adj+noun)

• the tiniest comments (concerning …)
• rare opportunity
• gutless weasel
• challenging moments

Question 6

Collocation (verb+adverb)

Question 7

Phrase & Idiom

• the mother of something (= the origin or cause of something)
• every now and again/then or every so often (= sometimes, but not often or regularly)
• owe it to sb to do sth (= to feel you should do something for someone, because they have helped you or given you support)
• knock it off (= used to tell someone to stop doing something, because it is annoying you)
• pick up the tab (= pay for)
• rob sb of sth
• fall (flat) on your face (= to fall and land with your face down)
• on the clock (= at work)

Answer 7

You owe it to your supporters not to give up now.

Taxpayers will pick up the tab for the stadium.

They threatened to shoot him and robbed him of all his possessions.

Question 8

It’s been sitting there for five months.

Question 9

I honestly didn’t get (= understand) any of that.

Question 10

I get this (= remember this) all the time.

Question 11

That’s what you tell yourself so you can stay above them.

Question 12

I’m close with these people.

Question 13

You like to make me out as an elitist.

make sb/sth out: to say that something is true when it is not

Answer 13

The situation was never as bad as the media made out.

She always tried to make out that I was wrong and she was right

He makes me out to be some sort of idiot.

Question 14

have you all over me

Question 15

Where do you keep popping out from?

Question 16

Message received

Question 17

I just discovered yesterday but I pretend like I’ve done my whole life.

Question 18

It would hurt him even more coming from you.

Question 19

I’m kind of going through something similar with Cam right now.

Question 20

I’m the last person who can say anything.

Question 21

they want someone out of their lives

Question 22

propose the perfect crime
do each other’s murders

Question 23

keeping me out of it

Question 24

The way she’s making my sister run around, I can’t have it, it’s bad for the family.

Question 25

You have been given **a rare opportunity** to move from the former to the latter.

Question 26

You gave M way too much power, and you need to take some of that power back.

Question 27

I hope I didn’t come at a bad time.

Question 28

I was just **deciding** where to take Lily for our bike ride. I’m **leaning towards** the park.

Question 29

Have you **given any thoughts to** what you might say?

Question 30

wish somebody had said something

Question 31

_I’m exact the same way about_ (my clothes). Most of the time, great. But **every now and again**, there’s that one outfit. _I just wish somebody would be honest with me and say_, what you’re wearing is **inappropriate**’.

Question 32

**I owe it to you to be honest**, so I’m just gonna say that you need to **lose** the bicycle shorts.

Question 33

They’re not working for you.

Question 34

I hear some crying down the hallway.

Question 35

I need a favor.

Question 36

She ought to stick to things she knows more about, like overcooking salmon.

Question 37

This could get ugly.

Question 38

You said he **was this generation’s** xxx

Question 39

What are you babbling about?

Question 40

I went a different way.

Question 41

I just need some time for this wound to become a scar.

Question 42

I’m sorry I got Clair involved.

Question 43

I feel like our relationship is strong enough to _survive a little **candor**_.

Question 44

You could tell me if there’s something about me you’d like to change.

Question 45

You had that bullet in chamber.

Question 46

The fact you’re willing to do it is enough for me.

Question 47

**I wake up grateful** to have you in my life. I’m the one who got lucky. **I just don’t show it enough.**

Question 48

Maybe you can **make it up to** me by (doing my shoulders).

Question 49

Make the introductions _from your heart_.

Question 50

What a choice does a guy have but to _play it straight_?

Question 51

_On this happy occasion_, I’d like to **pick up the tab** on the bar.

Question 52

Am I the only one seeing this?

Question 53

If my plan had been successful, I would have robbed you of the greatest night ever.

Question 54

Your real job is to be the person _who picks us back up_. Nobody does that better than you.

Question 55

Mom **does the funniest impression of** that weird lady at the supermarket.

Question 56

That’s not what she sounds like.

Question 57

But as luck would have it

Answer 57

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