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Review Exercise 25-3 Exploring
Alternate Meanings of Slang
Expressions
Some slang expressions have alternate meanings that are not slang.
For each of the sentence pairs in the exercise, choose the expression
from the following list that fits both sentences in the pair. Then write
the slang meaning of the expression and the standard meaning of the
expression in the blanks provided.
bag cool gross ticked off
bug crash shaft toast
bust freak
1. Sentence pair 1
a. Sarah was really when she found out she hadn’t
made the basketball team.
b. As the students filed into the exam room, the proctor
checked his roster and each name.
Slang meaning:
Standard meaning:
