B1 – Intermediate
Has anyone always given you food that you don’t honestly like but you didn’t want to offend that person so you keep receiving it and saying it is ‘special’ when it is just not good. This is what happened to Feifei. Neil gave her an advice to ‘keep a lid on it’. What might this expression mean?
Listen to the audio and find out what Neil meant.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/the-english-we-speak/ep-190325
Discussion Questions:
1. What does ‘keep a lid on it’ mean? Does it have other meanings?
2. Talk about a situation wherein you had to keep something under control. How did you prevent that situation from getting worse?
3. Talk about a time you had to keep a secret.