Advanced English Conversations - Robert Allans, Ahmet Mustafaoglu, Metin Emir 2019

Set (25) - Here we go again!

Dialogue

Sarah: Now, I would like to discuss your behavior in the party yesterday.

Peter: (to himself) Here we go again!

Sarah: You’ve made a laughingstock of me. You just kept putting me down.

Peter: Oh, dear! I didn’t mean to hurt your feelings. I’m really sorry and ready to pay for it.

Sarah: Look; I’m gonna ridicule you next weekend and then we get even.

Peter: Well done! You’re good at taking your revenge.

Sarah: Fair is fair.

Vocabulary

Here we go again: something familiar, and often unpleasant or unwelcome, is happening again.

Make a laughingstock of: to subject someone to a mockery or ridicule;

Put someone down: to criticize someone; to belittle; to degenerate.

Hurt one’s feelings: to make someone feel bad.

Pay for it (mistake): to be punished for doing something bad to someone else.

Get even: inflict similar trouble or harm on someone to that which they have inflicted on oneself.

Take revenge: to hurt or punish the person who wronged you.

Fair is fair: used for saying that someone should accept something because it is fair.

Exercise;

Fill in the gaps with the appropriate expressions;

Here we go again

make a laughingstock of

put someone down

hurt one’s feelings

pay for it (mistake)

get even take revenge

fair is fair

a. We all .......... our mistakes in some way at some time.

b. Do not .........., my dear friends, but leave room for God's wrath.

c. He .......... in front of my own employees. He won’t get away with it!

d. I felt I was .......... myself, wearing such a silly costume in broad daylight.

e. After she insulted me, all I thought about was how I could .......... with her.

f. You may not like her, but .........., she's a good teacher.

g. I don’t mean to .......... but the fact is you’re the one who is left out.

h. Fred: We must continue our discussion of the Wilson project. Sue .......... !