English Idioms: Exercises On Idioms (second Edition)

English Idioms Exercises on Idioms Jennifer Seidl A second edition of Idioms in Practice Oxford University Press Oxford University Press, Walton Street, Oxford O X 2 6 D P Oxford New York Athens Auckland Bangkok Bombay Calcutta Cape Town Dar es Salaam Delhi Florence Hong Kong Istanbul Karachi Kuala Lumpur Madras Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Nairobi Paris Singapore Taipei Tokyo Toronto and associated companies in Berlin Ibadan Oxford and Oxford Engl~sharc trade marks of Oxford University Press ISBN 0 19 432772 8 First edition 1982 (reprinted 4 times) Second edition 1989 Sixth impression 1995 O Jennifer Seidl 1982, 1989 N o unauthorized photocopying All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of Oxford University Press. This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher's prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser. Illustrations by Diana Gold Set by Pentacor Ltd, High Wycombe Printed in Hong Kong Contents List of exercises Introduction Idioms from special subjects 4 5 Key words with idiomatic uses Adjectives and adverbs Nouns 13 Miscellaneous 17 Idioms with nouns and adjectives Noun phrases 22 Adjective noun 23 + 26 Pairs of adjectives 26 Pairs of nouns 26 Pairs of adverbs 27 Pairs of verbs 28 Identical pairs 28 Phrasal verbs 35 Verbal idioms 47 22 Banking 59 Business 60 Buying and selling 61 Health, illness, death 61 Motoring 62 Politics and government 62 The Stock Exchange 63 Telephoning 63 Travel 64 Work and industrial relations Idioms with key words from special categories Idiomatic pairs Idioms with prepositions 6 6 Animals 66 Colours 68 Numbers, size, measurement Parts of the body 72 Time 80 29 59 Idioms with comparisions Comparisons with as . . . as Comparisons with like 85 Key 87 64 66 69 83 83 List of exercises bad big dead flat good hard high hot long old short thick, thin end line matter mind point bring way word world all how it as subject it as object that there too what Noun phrases Noun phrases Adjective + noun Adjective + noun Adjective + noun Pairs of adjectives Pairs of nouns Pairs of adverbs Pairs of verbs Identical pairs above, across, after, against at behind, below, by ' 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 for, from in off on out, over round, to, under, up, within be break, bring call, carry, catch come cut, do get go hang, have hold keep look make pass, play Put run see set sit, stand take turn Nominalized forms Nominalized forms break, bring come do get give go ha