You can be fined up to £150 for dropping litter in the UK. (Previously fines had been set by councils, varying between £50 and £80, however now under guidelines drawn up by the Department for Communities and Local Government, litter bugs could face an on the spot fine of £100, and if they do not pay up within […]
If someone says you're talking rubbish, it usually means you are saying something that doesn't make sense, but in Friday's Kitely session, April and I were literally talking about rubbish, and, believe it or not, there is a lot of vocabulary to do with rubbish and bins.
Today we listened to two texts. In the first text we met the phrasal verb "to throw up", not to be confused with "throw out" or "throw away", it means to vomit. There are lots of euphamisms for this rather unpleasant bodily function, here are just a few:- To be sickTo retchTo heaveTo toss your […]