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exeRCIse 76.
Complete the sentences by writing the correct colour denoting
word. Comment on the meaning of phraseological units.
1. I got a letter this morning saying that an uncle in Australia
had left me some money in his will. I didn’t know that I still
had an uncle in Australia, so it was completely out of the
____________.
2. It isn’t all that easy to get a visa and work permit for the
States. There’s still a lot of ____________ tape.
3. Don’t believe all the bad things you’ve heard about Tom
Spencer. He isn’t as _____________________ as he is
painted.
4. The plans are ready, so as soon as you give me the _______
______ light I’ll start with the construction work.
5. “Do you still visit your friends in Edinburgh?” “No, not since
we moved to Cambridge. Only once in a ____________
moon, unfortunately.”
6. I’ve paid off my overdraft at last! I must admit that I feel bet-
ter now that I’m in the ________ again.
exeRCIse 77.
Explain the meaning of phraseological units and classify them
into substantival, adjectival, verbal, and adverbial.
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The exercise is prepared and submitted with a kind permission of an MA student
(2010) of English Philology Vaiva Bernatonytė.
Part .5
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1. Asked how many arrest orders she had received so far from
her colleague in Spain, she walked away and left the ques-
tion hanging in the air.
2. Sooner or later they will have to realize that this is a blind al-
ley and that they need to rethink their own strategies.
3. We got out of the trucks to greet them with open arms. We
had gifts ready, we were high on the idea of the meeting.
4. He had discovered that it was safer to have the press on his
side than to have correspondents sneaking around behind
his back asking embarrassing questions.
5. So why look in the crystal ball for next year, when we can
look at the record of what has happened?
6. You can be walking across Westminster Bridge full of noble
thought at one moment and slipping on a banana peel the
next.
7. I didn’t see her face, but I knew it was a woman. She tore
across the highway like a bat out of hell. I nearly ploughed
right into her.
8. He wanted to recharge his batteries and come back feeling
fresh and positive.
9. “So would you be happy to work wherever you got the job?”
“Initially, I mean, you’ve got to take anything that comes
around because beggars can’t be choosers.”
10. I think I envied her relationship with our mother. She and my
mother were birds of a feather. You felt something special
between them that left you out.
11. I’ve had two bites of the cherry. Which was rather nice be-
cause all the mistakes, I made with the first one, I hope I
haven’t repeated.
12. Teenagers from authoritarian or uncaring families are twice
as likely as other youngsters to be heavy drinkers. “They will
hit the bottle to rebel”, said the researcher Geoff Lowe.
Phraseological .Units
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13. She, in turn, picked my brains about London – as she’d never
been outside of the USA and was thinking about a trip to
England.
14. We are being told on every side that marketing is the great-
est thing since sliced bread.
exeRCIse 78.
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