Money idioms：B2語形成練習問題

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練習 1. Complete the sentences with the correct words.

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  • 1
    How much did you pay for that jacket? What a -off!
  • 2
    If I weren’t so , I could afford to come out tonight.
  • 3
    Vic used to be off before his business failed and he lost everything.
  • 4
    Do you think it’s possible to be up, but still be very happy?
  • 5
    You can often buy fruit and vegetables dirt at the weekly market.
  • 6
    My family aren’t exactly in it, but we live quite comfortably.

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練習 2. Match the sentence halves.

  • 1
    I’ll have to tighten my
  • 2
    You’ll never make ends
  • 3
    After living hand to
  • 4
    Very few people make
  • 5
    Ben’s careful with money so he’s never been in
  • 6
    We had to pay
  • 7
    I often dream about living in
  • a)
    the red for very long.
  • b)
    mouth for years, she finally became a successful writer.
  • c)
    a fortune through playing the lottery.
  • d)
    belt next month or I’ll soon run out of money.
  • e)
    the lap of luxury, but it’s unlikely to happen.
  • f)
    meet if you spend more than you earn.
  • g)
    through the nose for the concert tickets, but it was worth it!

練習 3. Choose the pairs of idioms that have a similar meaning.

  • 1
    live hand to mouth / be well off
  • 2
    be rolling in it / live in the lap of luxury
  • 3
    be hard up / be a rip-off
  • 4
    make a killing / make a fortune
  • 5
    be broke / be in the red
  • 6
    make ends meet / pay through the nose
  • 7
    be dirt cheap / tighten one’s belt

練習 4. Complete the text with idioms from exercise 3.

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  • Many common idioms have interesting origins which can help to explain their meanings. For instance, 1) apparently replaced the former ‘be dog cheap’ to indicate something of very little value. 2) comes from the accounting practice of using that colour ink for debts and black for credit. 3) may also come from accounting, when the ‘ends’ or bottoms of the columns for the incomes and expenses were the same amount, or ‘met’, showing that more wasn’t being spent than was earned. 4) comes from prison slang, in which ‘rip’ means ‘steal’, so someone who does this to others is a thief. 5) apparently dates back to a 16th century famine when people were so poor that any food they got was eaten immediately so that no one else could have it. 6) is thought to date from the Great Depression of the 1930s, when hungry Americans lost so much weight that their clothes became loose.

VOCAB BOOST!

Try to find out the literal meaning of idioms to help make them more memorable. Often, although not always, this meaning has a logical or metaphonical connection to the meaning of the idiom.

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練習 5. Read the Vocab boost! box. Then match the idioms and their literal meanings (1-4) with their actual meanings (a-d).

  • 1
    to be born with a silver spoon in your mouth
  • Spoons are often given to babies as presents. Silver used to be an expensive metal and it’s probable that richer children were given silver spoons.
  • 2
    a cash cow
  • This is a metaphor for a dairy now, which produces milk.
  • 3
    to live on the breadline
  • In America during the Depression, people would wait in line to be given free food, paid for by the government.
  • 4
    money for old rope
  • The original meaning for this term meant to make money by selling something that has been used an ought to be worthless. It comes from the days of sailing ships, when sailors would cut damaged rope into shorter, undamaged lengths to sell on land. At sea, long ropes are needed, but on land, shorter lengths were still useful and could be sold.
  • a)
    to be very poor
  • b)
    to make money for very little effort
  • c)
    to be privileged
  • d)
    business or invention that returns a good level of profit every year

練習 6. Check the meaning of these idioms in a dictionary.

  • 1
    feel the pinch
  • 2
    cost the earth
  • 3
    work for peanuts
  • 4
    cost an arm and a leg
  • 5
    keep your head above water
  • 6
    put your money where your mouth is

Extra exercises

練習 7. Complete the sentences with money idioms formed from the word in brackets.

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  • 1
    They’ll be until they finish paying for their new house. (hard)
  • 2
    Despite the country’s supposed wealth, many of the citizens live . (hand)
  • 3
    What must it feel like to never have to work and live in ? (lap)
  • 4
    I forgot my phone charger so I had to pay for a new one at the airport. (nose)
  • 5
    My sister’s a single parent, so she finds it hard to . (ends)
  • 6
    My bank notifies me if I am so that I can make a deposit before I get charged. (red)

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練習 8. Complete the definitions with words related to advertising.

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  • 1
    A l is an image that represents a company.
  • 2
    A c is an advert on the radio or the TV.
  • 3
    A b is a type of product made by a company.
  • 4
    A l is the moment a product is made available to the public for the first time.
  • 5
    A s is a memorable phrase often used to draw people’s attention to commercial products.
  • 6
    A j is a tune that is easy to remember.

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練習 9. Complete the responses with the phrases below.

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  • Another thing is
  • For one thing
  • For those reasons
  • I definitely think
  • I don’t have any
  • On top of that
  • Thinking
  • about
  • it
  • A
    Is it better to buy books online or from a bookshop?
  • B
    1) , I suppose that it’s better to buy them online.
  • C
    2) it’s better to buy them from a bookshop. 3) , you can read the first page to make sure you like the book. 4) that you don’t have to wait for it to arrive to start reading it. 5) we need to support bookshops or they might die out. 6) , I think it’s better to buy books from a bookshop than to buy them online.
  • D
    7) strong opinions about that.

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