2015-08-21
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to get on someone’s nerves; cash and carry; to put a good word in for someone; to secure an agreement; to make money out of someone; maiden name; to commit suicide; to pull a face; to make a mountain out of a mole hill; to reach a compromise; to get one’s own back on someone; winds of change; to sort something out; to attain a target; to feel under the weather; as dead as a dodo; to realise a dream; to achieve an ambition; to tell tales out of school; an acute problem; to fulfil an obligation; to make a fool out of someone.
6.* Complete each idiomatic phrase with a word from the box, classify them on the functional principle.
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1. It’s time to be brave and take the ______ by the horns.
2. Terry went meekly into the exam room, like a _______ to the slaughter.
3. Misfortune was to ______ Charles for the rest of his life.
4. From this point the road begins to ______ down hill to the coast.
5. I’ve eaten too much, I’ve made a real ______ of myself.
6. Philip’s such a gentle man, he wouldn’t hurt a ______.
7. Grandfather looked like a ______ out of water at the disco.
8. John’s got the big match tomorrow, but I’m sure he’s going to ______ out at the last minute and stay at home.
9. Carol arrived at the party and made a ______ line for the sandwiches as she hadn’t eaten for hours.
10. Lisa walked in tentatively, like a ______ on a hot tin roof.
