Vocabulary From Foreign Language| English – Set 28 | Free PDF Download

Beau monde

• The world of high society and fashion
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•  The affair is already creating some excitement among the beau- monde

Bete noire

•  A person or thing that you dislike VERY MUCH or that annoys you
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•  My particular bete noire is cigarette butts left in half empty glasses

Caret blanche

• Complete freedom to do something
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• The landlord has given her carte blanche to redecorate the living room

Coup de grace

• Death blow
• An action that ends something that has been gradually getting worse or that kill a person or animal in order to end their suffering
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• Her affair was the coup de grace to her disintegrating marriage

 Idee fixe

•  Mania
•  This point of view has become something of an idee fixe among political commentators

 Quiz Select the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/ phrase

 Hobson’s choice

1. To choose first in row
2. To make a careful choice
3. No real choice at all
4. To seek all favourable alternatives to choose from

Adam’s ale

1. Gift
2. Food
3. Water
4. belongings

At one’s wits end

1. A man of ability
2. At the last moment
3. To get puzzled
4. Undecided controversy

 To steal a march

1. To act in a foolish way
2. To break something
3. To outshine
4. To see a hidden meaning

 In a jiffy

1. Fail to win appreciation
2. In an appropriate manner
3. Something that is done very quickly
4. To fall in

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