English Idioms. Exercises On Idioms

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 ver