05. 01. 22 English Scrunity

1. to have bee in your bonet
   to be obsessed about something

2. black sheep (of the family)
   someone regarded as unsatisfactory - by the rest of the family

3. a bookworm
   someone who reads a lot

4. to feel like a fish out of water
   to be out of place

5. to be a fly on the wall
   to be able to observe a situation

6. to let the cat out of the bag
   to give away the secret

7. the rat race
   a fierce competition of modern life

8. to be as sick as a dog
   to be phisically sick (???)


3. I am afraid the whole subject is out of our hands
   There's nothing we can do about it.

4. I really put my foot in it when I told that joke at the party. Nobody thought it                was funny.
   made a mistake.

5. I can never agree with him and we don't get on very well. We just don't see eye    to eye.
   agree, get on well

              OPPOTUNITIES
 
               Upper Intermediated Language Powerbook

               Michael Harris   David Mover   Anna Sikorska


If you survived from Mrs. Parker' scorn you were taken to Mr. Skider's large hall room to admire the lambrecins.

                The SkyLight Room   O'Henry


The kind of woman that one definitely looked at twice.

As he came forward to greet her, he was aware of her dark grey eyes  stdudying him attentively. She was very earnest in that scrutiny.

                Five Little Pigs   Agatha Christy         

Sophisticated - утонченный, изысканный
Effortless - без усилий
Stunning - ошеломительный