12. I think he‘s just trying to butter me up.
13. She‘s a dab-hand at carpentry, just like her father.
14. My work-mates are always talking behind my back.
15. Let‘s sit somewhere else. They always talk shop over lunch and it bores me
rigid.
16. Never look a gift horse in the mouth.
17. One swallow doesn‘t make a summer.
18. Hey! Your new friend has become a talking point among the stuff!
19. Mary really has green fingers. Look at those flowers!
20. She‘s miles better than the other girls.
Exercise 19. Identify the following grammatical phenomena in the
phraseological units below:
a) synonymy, b) antonymy.
1.
As heavy as lead
2.
As white as snow
3.
As drunk as a lord
4.
As light as a feather
5.
As sober as a judge
6.
As black asnight
7.
As white as a sheet
8.
to have a heart of gold
9.
to be as good as gold
10. to be as hard as nails
11. to be a coldfish
12. to be quick off the mark
13. to be a fast worker
14. to be slow off the mark
15. to be a slow-coach
16. to be a big head
17. to be a real know-all
18. to have a face as long as a fiddle
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