1000 collocations lesson 38~39

Got off to a good start

• Began well

• Start badly

• Good ending

Encouraging start

• New beginning

• Unsteady start

• Promising start

Come to an end

• Draw to a close

• Beginning of the end

• Sudden end

When you make the final changes to smth before it is completed, we can say ...

• The beginning of the end

• Put the finishing touches on it

• Come to an end

Unsteady start

• Shaky start

• Promising start

• Encouraging start

Humble beginning

• New beginning

• Shaky start

• Modest beginning

Resulting in workplace morale

• Crowning achievement

• Dramatic improvement

• Modest success

If the beginning of smth did not meet expectations, you can call it a ...

• Disastrous start

• Disbelieving start

• Disappointing start

When smth ends quickly, then it comes to ...

• Abrupt end

• Sudden end

• Both answers are correct

When an activity appears that it will continue forever, then we say there is ...

• No end in sight

• Abrupt start

• Come to an end