12 Review, Question #2 With Explanation

Key English Idioms: Live Beyond Your Means - Business Key English Idioms | "live beyond your means" | Business
3 minutes
Share the link to this page
Copied
  Completed
You need to have access to the item to view this lesson.
One-time Fee
$5.99
List Price:  $19.99
You save:  $14
7 days money-back
€5.58
List Price:  €18.62
You save:  €13.04
£4.79
List Price:  £16
You save:  £11.21
CA$8.22
List Price:  CA$27.44
You save:  CA$19.22
A$9.11
List Price:  A$30.40
You save:  A$21.29
S$8.12
List Price:  S$27.11
You save:  S$18.99
HK$46.81
List Price:  HK$156.23
You save:  HK$109.41
CHF 5.44
List Price:  CHF 18.18
You save:  CHF 12.73
NOK kr65.47
List Price:  NOK kr218.50
You save:  NOK kr153.03
DKK kr41.63
List Price:  DKK kr138.94
You save:  DKK kr97.31
NZ$9.98
List Price:  NZ$33.32
You save:  NZ$23.33
د.إ22
List Price:  د.إ73.42
You save:  د.إ51.42
৳657.77
List Price:  ৳2,195.13
You save:  ৳1,537.36
₹500.21
List Price:  ₹1,669.32
You save:  ₹1,169.11
RM28.39
List Price:  RM94.76
You save:  RM66.37
₦8,423.43
List Price:  ₦28,110.93
You save:  ₦19,687.50
₨1,666.73
List Price:  ₨5,562.28
You save:  ₨3,895.54
฿221.21
List Price:  ฿738.23
You save:  ฿517.02
₺192.99
List Price:  ₺644.07
You save:  ₺451.07
B$30.49
List Price:  B$101.76
You save:  B$71.27
R111.17
List Price:  R371
You save:  R259.83
Лв10.91
List Price:  Лв36.43
You save:  Лв25.51
₩8,211.76
List Price:  ₩27,404.55
You save:  ₩19,192.78
₪22.37
List Price:  ₪74.66
You save:  ₪52.28
₱343.66
List Price:  ₱1,146.87
You save:  ₱803.21
¥933.92
List Price:  ¥3,116.72
You save:  ¥2,182.79
MX$101.58
List Price:  MX$339.02
You save:  MX$237.43
QR21.80
List Price:  QR72.77
You save:  QR50.96
P81.85
List Price:  P273.17
You save:  P191.31
KSh784.69
List Price:  KSh2,618.69
You save:  KSh1,834
E£283.60
List Price:  E£946.46
You save:  E£662.85
ብር344.12
List Price:  ብር1,148.42
You save:  ብር804.30
Kz5,009.75
List Price:  Kz16,718.70
You save:  Kz11,708.94
CLP$5,607.41
List Price:  CLP$18,713.23
You save:  CLP$13,105.82
CN¥43.28
List Price:  CN¥144.46
You save:  CN¥101.17
RD$347.81
List Price:  RD$1,160.74
You save:  RD$812.92
DA807.41
List Price:  DA2,694.51
You save:  DA1,887.10
FJ$13.64
List Price:  FJ$45.53
You save:  FJ$31.89
Q46.56
List Price:  Q155.40
You save:  Q108.84
GY$1,254.59
List Price:  GY$4,186.88
You save:  GY$2,932.28
ISK kr839.07
List Price:  ISK kr2,800.19
You save:  ISK kr1,961.12
DH60.08
List Price:  DH200.50
You save:  DH140.42
L105.84
List Price:  L353.21
You save:  L247.37
ден343.96
List Price:  ден1,147.89
You save:  ден803.93
MOP$48.26
List Price:  MOP$161.05
You save:  MOP$112.79
N$111.50
List Price:  N$372.13
You save:  N$260.62
C$220.63
List Price:  C$736.30
You save:  C$515.67
रु800.85
List Price:  रु2,672.65
You save:  रु1,871.79
S/22.32
List Price:  S/74.49
You save:  S/52.17
K23.22
List Price:  K77.49
You save:  K54.27
SAR22.46
List Price:  SAR74.97
You save:  SAR52.50
ZK163.76
List Price:  ZK546.51
You save:  ZK382.75
L27.77
List Price:  L92.68
You save:  L64.91
Kč139.53
List Price:  Kč465.64
You save:  Kč326.11
Ft2,167.99
List Price:  Ft7,235.09
You save:  Ft5,067.10
SEK kr65.46
List Price:  SEK kr218.47
You save:  SEK kr153
ARS$5,281.75
List Price:  ARS$17,626.43
You save:  ARS$12,344.67
Bs41.41
List Price:  Bs138.19
You save:  Bs96.78
COP$23,326.15
List Price:  COP$77,844.70
You save:  COP$54,518.55
₡3,067.79
List Price:  ₡10,237.93
You save:  ₡7,170.13
L148.10
List Price:  L494.27
You save:  L346.16
₲44,778.49
List Price:  ₲149,436.09
You save:  ₲104,657.59
$U231.44
List Price:  $U772.39
You save:  $U540.94
zł23.98
List Price:  zł80.03
You save:  zł56.05
Already have an account? Log In

Transcript

Question number two. Who, Patricia. I'm planning to buy the biggest flat screen TV and awesome sports car and a huge house on the ocean. Keith, you're joking, right? You're a dishwasher. Don't you think that would be really living beyond your means?

Which expression below is similar to the green words above? a, an awesome way to live. Be a horrible financial choice. See a way to live your dreams? Take a moment. Look through the answers.

Look through the conversation and choose which one you think is the most similar to the green words about Here comes the answer in 54321 be a horrible financial choice. The situation is that Patricia wants to go crazy buying all this in incredibly expensive stuff. Keith is trying to bring her back to reality. remind her how things really are. Patricia is a dishwasher. Unfortunately, dishwashers don't make a lot of money.

Because what they do is not very specialized. a dishwasher is a person who washes dishes, they they wash the pans, the forks and knives, the plates, the bowls, all that stuff, probably in a restaurant. And the work they do is very important to the business. But it's not very specialized. It's not difficult, so dishwashers don't make a lot of money. But Patricia wants to live the highlife, she wants to have a big TV, a sports car and a huge house on the ocean.

So, back to the question. We're looking for something similar to really living beyond your means. So beyond your means is like You're living in a way that your income, the money you're getting in does not cover your expenses. Or it can only cover them for a short amount of time. And there's no way you can keep living that way. So the most similar answer is a horrible financial choice.

It would just be a bad choice on Patricia's part, to try to buy all this stuff. Her money would be gone. Poof, just like that. If we put it in the conversation, Keith could have said You're joking, right? You're a dishwasher. Don't you think that would be a horrible financial choice?

Right? There wouldn't be. Let's take a look at the wrong answers. A, an awesome way to live. Well, if Patricia got all this stuff, she might feel awesome for a very, very short period of time. But eventually she doesn't have the income to keep paying for these things.

And the bank's gonna probably take back the sports car, take back the house, and take All this stuff that she is unable to pay for. So he doesn't work because it's not similar to really living beyond your means. See a way to live your dreams it's not similar either, so it's obviously wrong. And it might end up being more of a nightmare. Because Patricia is gonna be like wow, all this great stuff and then oh, it's gone. I can't pay for it.

And she's gonna have to go back to her dishwasher job. Okay.

Sign Up

Share

Share with friends, get 20% off
Invite your friends to LearnDesk learning marketplace. For each purchase they make, you get 20% off (upto $10) on your next purchase.