Idioms- Faux pas

(0:09) Faux pas (French for "false step")- a social error or blunder

Idioms- "You've worked up a pretty bad rep around here."

1:16- "You've worked up a pretty bad rep around here," says actor James Franco (excellent actor and 1/4 Portuguese) to the protagonist of the film.  This means that the man he is talking to has made a reputation for himself as being a bad person.  

ELR Alone Time ANSWERS

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1.       Debora  turns around in shock when Ray walks into the bathroom and says, “Ray…….

I’m in here.

2.       Ray replies, “you have a ______________.”

Mustache

3.       Why does Ray say, “Sorry, sir.”

Because men are usually the ones with a mustache

4.       Debora is upset that Ray walked into the bathroom without doing what first?

Knocking

5.       Ray barged in on Debora because he forgot what?

Deodorant

6.       Debora says it isn’t a mustache she has, but it’s what?

Peach fuzz

7.       How long has Debora had that?

For as long as Ray has known her

8.       And what has she always done to it?

Bleached it

9.       Debora tells Raymond he should be apologizing to her and he says he’s sorry nature can be cruel.  What does he mean by that?

She was born with that hair and it isn’t nice.

10.   Raymond says that Debora walks in on him all the time and she says that’s because he doesn’t what?

Close the door

11.   Debora complains she is never alone.  Either Ray is with her, or the kids are with her, and when the kids are gone she still isn’t alone because his parents what?

Walk in there all the time

12.   Ray asks if some time alone will stop the what?

Yelling

13.   Debora suggests Ray take the kids to his mothers and his mother can what all of them?

Babysit

14.   Ray keeps teasing Debora about her mustache and says the mustache will distract him from what?

The cellulite

Everybody Loves Raymond

Alone Time (0:00-3:17)

Vocabulary

Mustache- hair above the upper lip, usually on men’s faces

Barge in on- to walk suddenly into a room someone else is already in without telling them

Peach fuzz- this is what we call very thin light hair on someone’s face

Sporting that- having something on your person everyone can see

Bleached- lightened

Tree house- a small house adults sometimes build for children in trees

Tying a young girl to the railroad tracks- in the olden days, there was a stereotypical villain in movies with a large mustache who would tie people to the rail road tracks.

Soup strainer- a slang word for a mustache

Groucho- he was a famous actor in the olden days with a big mustache

Questions

1.       Debora  turns around in shock when Ray walks into the bathroom and says, “Ray…….

2.       Ray replies, “you have a ______________.”

3.       Why does Ray say, “Sorry, sir.”

4.       Debora is upset that Ray walked into the bathroom without doing what first?

5.       Ray barged in on Debora because he forgot what?

6.       Debora says it isn’t a mustache she has, but it’s what?

7.       How long has Debora had that?

8.       And what has she always done to it?

9.       Debora tells Raymond he should be apologizing to her and he says he’s sorry nature can be cruel.  What does he mean by that?

10.   Raymond says that Debora walks in on him all the time and she says that’s because he doesn’t what?

11.   Debora complains she is never alone.  Either Ray is with her, or the kids are with her, and when the kids are gone she still isn’t alone because his parents what?

12.   Ray asks if some time alone will stop the what?

13.   Debora suggests Ray take the kids to his mothers and his mother can what all of them?

14.   Ray keeps teasing Debora about her mustache and says the mustache will distract him from what?