Reference expressions video worksheet-Frasier Gets Tough!

Before you watch, make sure you know what all the words in italics below mean

As you watch the film, listen for what the expressions in bold refer to

That was when I was the call-screener and now I’m the host

I had to sprint the whole way

You go right there and let that air out of his tyres

Something tells me I’m going to be siding with Brenda’s sister

Don’t even think about it

It won 5 Academy Awards

That’ll be across the street in the ‘How Green was my Valley’ annex

I have had it with the whole boorish, ill-mannered world

I see our neighbour’s at it again

He has shaggy hair, he has tattoos all over, his body is pierced

We are not barbarians, we are not Neanderthals and we are not French!

They played the same song over and over- ‘Flesh is burning’

Doesn’t he ever stop for sex and drugs?

Keep it down out there, I’m trying to have a nap

I think that would be a hatchback, Niles.

We are not hovering, believe me

It’s about to be towed

It’s about the erosion of common decency

What you need is an etiquette lesson

How’s your bad-ass self?

Now all of Seattle knows about my loutish behaviour

This guy had it coming

You get your own tough guy catch-phrase

I decided to give him a good tongue-lashing

I was forced to flee his establishment in a shower of clothes hangers

So I took off my new red panties and popped them in with his whites.

I grabbed that leaf-blower and smashed it against a tree

….setting someone’s lawn on fire!

Come to think of it, what I did was wrong.

You’re not going to take another shot at me?

No, I’m suing you

I’d reached the end of my tether

Tough, I’m nailing you for assault

You look here, buddy

I barely touched him!