English Vocabulary in Use: Advanced Book with Answers and Enhanced eBook Vocabulary Reference and Practice 3rd Edition

Happy haunting
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Hopping mad
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Flushed with success
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Highly embarrassed
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Round-up
a A grandfather’s breathing problems were solved when doctors found four false teeth at the 
entrance to his lungs. They had been forced down his windpipe in a car crash eight years before.
b A 25-year-old terrapin is being treated for a fractured shell aft er surviving a 200-foot drop.
c A Shetland teacher has suggested sheepdogs could be used to control pupils in playgrounds.
d A ghost society has been told not to scare off a friendly female apparition at a hotel.
e An unusual travel company is off ering adults the chance to experience going back to school 
again – they will spend a week wearing school uniform, sitting through lessons and eating school 
dinners.
f An ex-public loo in Hackney, East London, is to be sold for £276,000.
g A Whitby vicar has attacked the resort’s attempts to profit on its connections with Dracula: ‘a pale-
faced man with a bad sense of fashion, severe dental problems and an eating disorder’.
h A toad triggered a police alert when it set off a new hi-tech alarm system.
i Firefighters had to scale a 30-foot tree to rescue a man who was trying to capture his pet iguana.
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MARATHON MAN IN DROP-DEAD DASH
NUDE SCIENTIST IN BATHTUB SCANDAL
KING PHIL’S MACEDONIAN MASSACRE
QUADRUPLE ROYAL MURDER SENSATION
IT’S CURTAINS FOR CORINTH

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Red tape
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Characteristics of bureaucratic language
A STUDENT SHALL NOT BE ELIGIBLE FOR A LOAN IN RELATION TO AN ACADEMIC YEAR IF HE/SHE:
(a) has 
attained
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the age of 50 years before the first day of the course;
(b) has received another loan in relation to the same academic year;
(c) has received another loan in relation to another academic year which began during the same period 1st August to the 
following 31st July during which the academic year began;
(d) is eligible in respect of that year to receive:
(i) any payment under a bursary or award of similar description 
bestowed on
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him/her under section 63 of the Health 
Services and Public Health Act 1968(2) the amount of which is not calculated by reference to his/her income.
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reached
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given to