Exercise 43.
Translate the phraseological units, giving their literal and
figurative meaning.
1) Always ready to knock on wood, throw salt over my shoulder, bite my tongue,
cross my fingers.
2) That‘s a horse of a different color.
3) The difference is that you were left holding the baby.
4) I am dining with Duke Humphrey tonight.
5) That kind of behaviour can give us all a black eye.
6) He did not hang his fiddle up when he came home.
7) Out in the pasture, the princess let her hair down.
8) He was busy with window dressing.
9) The deal was cut in a smoke-filled room.
10) You‘d better step aside then – you‘re standing in my light.
11) You shouldn‘t have stirred up that hornet‘s nest.
12) She measured her length.
Exercise 44. State which of the italisized units are phraseological units and
which are free word combinations. Give proof of your answer.
1) Simon presents his story in a typically heroic manner, so I have to read between
the lines.
2) The prisoners read the hidden messages made in milk ink between the lines of
the books.
3) She was acutely aware that she had burnt her bridges.
4) When the French sieged the castle, its people burnt their bridges.
5) The new factory will give the local economy a real shot in the arm.
6) You might say that I really needed this shot in the arm.
7) We knew that it wouldn‘t just go away if we swept it under the carpet.
8) He swept all the dirt under the carpet.
9) The CEO took the dealership to the cleaners at the meeting.
10) The mother took the fur coat to the cleaner‘s.
11) He was never more than a B-movie actor, playing second fiddle to actors like
Errol Flynn.
12) He used to play the second fiddle in the local symphony orchestra.
13) Man cloning for transplant purposes is on our doorstep.
14) He stood on the doorstep, straightening his tie.
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