Read these comments about people's attitudes to banks. Complete each idiom.

Interviewer: 'Do you think banks are honest and open?'

1 'No. There's too much secrecy and too many deals done under the.........

They should be more open.'

2 'Well, I think there are a minority of bankers who are just........... own , which gives the banks a bad name.'

3 'They're OK on the whole. But occasionally you get major financial crime involving billions of pounds. And often it's an inside …. involving someone working in the bank. We all suffer then.'

4 'No, banks are on the........................ all the time, defrauding us and pulling the over our about what's really going on.'

5 'Well, I think the banks are..................... us all for a..................... They

never lose out - it's always the ordinary customers who suffer.'

Match each statement (1-9) with a suitable response (a-i).

1 I think teenagers who commit a crime should be sent to prison for a week and given a really hard time.

2 I see the police have been called in about the missing money at the tennis club.

3 People who throw litter in the street ought to be prosecuted.

4 Wow, the police charged Tony with every possible offence they could think of!

5 It didn't take long for the police to arrive, did it?

6 I heard that Donald was actually in prison years ago.

7 Apparently, Angela Smith was in prison when she was younger.

8 That famous computer hacker, Jin Soon, is apparently a reformed character.

9 It's amazing how that former burglar is helping the police investigate crime in the neigbourhood.

a Yes, they say she did time for attacking her husband's lover,

b Yes, it's a real case of poacher turned gamekeeper,

с Yes, I agree. They should be brought to book.

d Yes, someone told me he had done a stretch, but I don't know what for.

e Yes, the thieves won't be able to escape from the long arm of the law.

f Yes, a short sharp shock would do them good!

g No, the boys in blue were soon on the scene!

h Yes, they really threw the book at him, didn't they!

i Yes, he's back on the straight and narrow

4. Colour Idioms. Match the idioms on the left with their definitions on the right.

a) to catch sb. red-handed 1. broke, having no money

b) to see red 2. from nowhere, unexpectedly

c) to appear out of the blue 3. to catch sb. during his committing a crime

d) in the black and white 4. get terribly angry

e) in the red 5. in a very clear way

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