7. How was your night out with Jerry? > Terrible! All he talked about was steam trains. He's got a mind! 8. Do you fancy a game of squash tonight, Tim? > Good idea. I need to do something to I'm really tense. I've had a very difficult week at work. 9. How are things at work after the fire? > It's taken us three months to sort things out, but everything's now. 10. Did you see the match last night? What about that goal just before half-time? > He's incredible. He's When he gets the ball there's no stopping him! Note: When two groups are negotiating and something goes badly wrong, we often say that the talks were derailed.
3: The end of the line Line is a common word in several idioms. Use these expressions in the situations below: a. down the line c. somewhere along the line b. the end of the line d. all along the line 1. So, are we going to give Roger another chance? > He's already had 5 warnings about being late. I think we've reached We'll have to ask him to leave. 2. I'm afraid we've never received your cheque. > It's obviously got lost 3. If you're going to build your own house, make sure you've got the finance organised from the start. > Yes, we don't want to have financial problems a couple of months 4. We've got no alternative but to cancel the new project. > I suppose so. We've had so many problems in fact.
- since the word go,
4: Revision Look back at the idioms in this unit and add the missing words: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
ran gone back the end light
of steam the rails track the line the end of the tunnel
6. let steam 7 my own steam 8. somewhere the line 9. two months the line 10 the right track
Is your career on the right track? Perhaps you can see problems further down the line?
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