If the CEO hadn't bet the _________ on that risky tech startup, the company wouldn't have gone bankrupt last winter.
farm
With hindsight, if we ______ (know) the market would crash, we ___________ (take) that calculated risk.
If we had known...we wouldn't have taken
If he hadn't dropped the _________ on that client account last month, he wouldn't be _________ the music in the manager's office right now.
ball/facing
If the airline hadn't lost my luggage during our stopover in Paris, I ___________ (not/spend) my first day in London buying new clothes.
I wouldn't have spent
True or False? "Peril" is a verb that means to make someone angry.
False. "Peril" is a formal noun that means serious and immediate danger
If the benefits of a decision "outweigh" the drawbacks, do the benefits have more value or less value than the drawbacks?
More value
True or False? "Trial and error" means solving a problem immediately on your very first attempt.
False. It means trying various methods and learning from your mistakes until you find the right way.
Give a synonym or short definition for the phrase "in a nutshell".
In short / briefly / in a few words
Turn this reality into a Mixed Conditional: I didn't have a natural rapport with the team back then, so I don't find this aspect of the job rewarding today.
If I had had a natural rapport with the team, I would find this aspect of the job rewarding today.
What common idiom means an accidental mistake in speech where you say something you didn't mean to?
A slip of the tongue
The sentence "If there were no room for improvement, our boss wouldn't have given us feedback" is a third conditional.
False
Complete the sentence with the correct preposition: "If they hadn't fallen _________ with each other over money years ago, there wouldn't be so much bad blood between them today."
out
Correct the mistake: If we took perventive measures last year, we wouldn't be dealing with these supply chain issues right now.
If we had taken...
Spot and fix the grammar error: "If I had more forward thinking when I started the project, we wouldn't have encountered these last-minute hiccups."
If I had had more forward thinking...
If you hadn't put your heavy backpack in the _________ bin, it wouldn't have fallen out and hit that poor passenger in the aisle seat.
overhead
Finish the idiom meaning "operating with almost no energy or resources left": running on ......
fumes
If she hadn't thrown caution to the ________ and quit her corporate job without a backup plan, she wouldn't be running her own successful bakery today.
wind
Name two synonyms of the word "rich".
affluent/well-off/wealthy