Question

What do you think is meant by the following? You may discuss each sentence in class.
Try to find other ways of expressing the same ideas.
a.) 'It's tommyrot.'

b.) They were terrific fun.(Look up the word 'terrific' in a dictionary.)

c.) The manager was a bristly man. (what does the word 'bristly' mean?)

d.) 'Rats!' cried Mr Stringer, going mauve in the face.

e.) 'May l suggest a compromise, madam?.

f.) The ground floor of the hotel was a maze of public rooms.​

Answer 1

A means rubbish
B means brilliant
C means mean, a negative adjective
D means that when you are scared, and you are worried,, and you missed something or did something wrong, you say rats

E means a deal

F means that the ground floor was large