Colloquial language

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Gap-fill exercise

Fill in all the gaps, then press "Check" to check your answers. Use the "Hint" button to get a free letter if an answer is giving you trouble. You can also click on the "[?]" button to get a clue. Note that you will lose points if you ask for hints or clues!

   a grand      a grand      blow      boiling hot      booze      bored stiff      brand new      broken      coppers      dough      hassling      loo      mates      pinch      rip off      scared stiff      stone cold   

One of my not long ago won in the lottery. He decided to the money on a night out. First of all we went to a pub to get some and to decide what to do next. Eventually we decided to go to a Indian restaurant. What a disaster! First of all tha soup was and the main course was , so hot that i burnt my mouth. We tried to complain to the waiter but he was stending in the corner looking and he refused to do anything about it. Then I went to the and while I was gone, some young lads at the next table started my friends and tried to a bottle of wine from our table. Then one of them pulled out a knife and started to smash up the restaurant. I was and went to ring the . By the time they arrived, the troublemakers had gone, but the restaurant owner insisted we pay for the damage. The bill come to - all the we had. What a ! And now my friendis again!