Idioms Exercises – Part 20

.Read the following examples and try to guess the meaning of the idioms

Junior government ministers are in Washington to pave the way for the prime minister’s visit

Russian space agency denied Lance Ban a place on its October mission after his backers failed to cough up the $20 million cover charge

pave the way for something: to make a later event or development possible by producing the right conditions

cough up: to give someone money, information etc when you do not really want to