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Question1. Give three antonyms for the phrase: 'down to earth'.

Question2. Match expressions from Group A to Group B and Explain the meaning of the expressions from both GroupA and B.

Group A
(1) What's the damage?
(2) Cough it up!

Group B
a. friend asks for money from friend for the bill
b. afraid to ask 'how much is the bill'

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Give three antonyms for the phrase: 'down to earth'.

Answer: 'down to earth" is not pretentious or affected; straightforward
Antonyms of down-to-earth are: unrealistic; pretentious, quixotic.

Question2. Match expressions from Group A to ...

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