lll. Vocabulary
Find out the meaning of the following phrases:
1. Put (or throw) someone off the scent
2. Going completely off track
3. Love the sound of (one's) own voice
Answers
Explanation:
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1)-Put someone off the scent
to do something to try to prevent someone from discovering the truth
•Detectives were thrown off the scent after evidence was destroyed.
2)-Going completely off track
Off track is defined as someone or something who is not moving forward properly or who is not going in the right direction.
• An example of a person who is off track is someone who was supposed to go to college but instead dropped out.
3)- Love the sound of someone's own voice
To enjoy hearing oneself talk because one is pompous and/or self-centered.
•Boy, he really loves the sound of his own voice—I didn't think he would ever stop talking! I know you love the sound of your own voice, but can I please say something now?
⋆ADDITIONAL INFORMATION⋆
There are many types of phrases.
A phrase is a group (or pairing) of words in English. A phrase can be short or long, but it does not include the subject-verb pairing necessary to make a clause. Some examples of phrases include: after the meal (prepositional phrase) the nice neighbor (noun phrase)