If you don't like it, you can lump it

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 509.

Out of sight, out of mind

VII. Get yourself familiar with the following idioms. Read them in context and try to find out what they mean and what equivalent(s) they may have in your language.

VI. Answer the questions.

IV. Fill in the gaps with prepositions.

1. I had two tickets …… a concert in London.

1. I went … the concert hall early to get my money back … one … the tickets.
2. Paulina was standing … the queue.
3. She was there … the same reason.
4. I suggested that we sat … my seats.
5. After the concert we went … a drink.
6. We've known each other … two years.
7. After that first meeting we started going … together and we fell … love.
8. I think we get … very well.
9. We've got a lot … common.
10. We've got the same tastes … music.
11. We keep … touch … e-mail all the time.

V. Provide definitions for the following phrasal verbs:

Find out, break up, get on

1. How did they first meet? What words and phrases can you use to describe it?

2. What kind of relationship did they have at first?

3. Why did they break up?

4. Why are they still friends?

5. What kind of person is Paulina?

6. Why can he call her “best friend”?

7. Do they see each other on a regular basis nowadays?

8. Why will it be more difficult to remain good friends when one of them finds a new partner?

1. But out of sight, out of mind, was the usual rule and they soon forgot each other... (E. Flynn, ‘The Alderson Story', ch. VII)

1. I'm a-going to call you Boffin, for short... If you don't like it, it's open to you to lump it. (Ch. Dickens, ‘Our Mutual Friend', book IV, ch. III)

2. Well, what I always say is, people must take me as they find me, and if they don't like it they can lump it. (W. S. Maugham, ‘Of Human Bondage', ch. 61)

3. So when there's a strike on, I'm with the miners. If you don't like it, you must just lump it, old dear. (K. S. Prichard, ‘Golden Miles', ch. 51)