Reading comprehension – Drag and drop

Read the article ‘Words, Words’ about expressions connected with science on pages 18 - 19 of English Now No. 123. Then see if you can fill in the blanks with the appropriate expression.
exactly rocket scienceliving on another planeton the same wavelengtha short fuse a black holepull the plugreinvent the wheelcogs in the machine

I don’t get on well with my colleague. He doesn’t understand me and we aren’t really
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. He gets angry very quickly, because he has
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. We are both important
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in our company but sometimes I get very frustrated with him. He doesn’t seem to know what is going on and it feels like he is
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. Last week he suggested an improvement that was quite unnecessary and I told him that we didn’t need to
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. He couldn’t see why I didn’t agree with him, so I told him that it was quite easy to understand, as it wasn’t
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. If we pay for projects that aren’t necessary, the company will be throwing money into
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. I said that we should really forget his idea and
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on it.



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