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

 
service: 
a people playing tennis 
b in a restaurant
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case: 
a in a lawyer’s office 
b at an airport
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cue: 
a people playing snooker 
b in the theatre
Explain these one-line jokes. They are all based on polysemy.
1 I wondered why the tennis ball was getting bigger. Then it hit me!
2 Smaller babies may be delivered by a stork but the heavier ones need a crane.
3 Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
4 You know prices are rising when you buy a winter jacket and even down is up.
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Collocation: which words go together
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Adjective + noun collocations
Nouns oft en have typical adjectives which go with them. Here are some examples.
Compare 
thing and article:
we say
we don’t usually say
the 
real thing
the genuine thing
the 
genuine article
the real article
I don’t like five-a-side football; I prefer the 
real thing. 
[i.e. real football, with 11 players in each team]
These trainers are the 
genuine article. Those others are just cheap imported copies.
You can give a 
broad summary of something (NOT a wide summary).
You can describe something 
in great detail (NOT in big detail).
Some adjectives go with a restricted range of nouns. For example:
a 
formidable opponent/reputation/task/challenge
Verb + adverb collocations
Oft en, verbs have typical adverbs that collocate with them. The lines here show which collocations 
are normal:
She always