NEF Advanced Reading: What I am really thinking about / slide 9. Write down all the unknown words,
Lexis in Context, slide 9, ex-e

gets wearing, build up, does my head in, look down on us, keep up with, life or death, go blank, breaks my heart

e. Look at the highlighted phrasal verbs and idioms and guess the meaning of the ones you don’t know from the context. Then match them to the definitions 1-8.

1. look down on us — think they are better than sb/sth
2. breaks my heart — makes me very upset
3. keep up with — move or make progress at the same rate as sb/sth
4. does my head in — makes me annoyed
5. gets wearing — becomes exhausting
6. life or death — vitally important
7. build up — get bigger