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English Idioms
Exercises on Idioms
Jennifer Seidl
A second edition of Idioms in Practice
Oxford University Press
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ISBN 0 19 432772 8
First edition 1982 (reprinted 4 times)
Second edition 1989
Sixth impression 1995
O Jennifer Seidl 1982, 1989
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Contents
List of exercises
4
Idioms from special subjects 59
Banking 59
Business 60
Buying and selling
Introduction
5
61
Key words with idiomatic uses
6
Health, illness, death
61
Adjectives and adverbs
6
Motoring 62
Politics and government
Nouns 13
Miscellaneous
62
17
The Stock Exchange
63
Telephoning
63
Idioms with nouns and adjectives
22
Travel 64
Work and industrial relations
Adjective + noun
22
64
23
Idioms with key words
from special categories
Idiomatic pairs
26
66
Pairs of adjectives
26
Animals 66
Colours 68
Numbers, size, measurement
Pairs of nouns
26
Pairs of adverbs
27
69
Pairs of verbs
28
Parts of the body
72
Identical pairs
28
Time
80
Idioms with prepositions 29
Idioms with comparisions 83
Comparisons with as .. . as
83
Phrasal verbs
35
Comparisons with like
85
Verbal idioms
47
Key
87
Noun phrases
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List of exercises
bad
big
dead
flat
good
hard
high
hot
long
old
short
thick, thin
end
line
matter
mind
point
bring
way
word
world
all
how
it as subject
it as object
that
there
too
what
Noun phrases
Noun phrases
Adjective + noun
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
73
74
' 75
76
77
78
79
80
81
against 82
83
84
for, from
in
off
on
out, over
round, to, under, up,
be
break, bring
call, carry, catch
come
cut, do
get
go
hang, have
hold
keep
look
make
pass, play
Put
run
see
set
sit, stand
take
turn
Nominalized forms
Nominalized forms
break, bring
come
do
get
give
go
have (got)
keep
make
play, pull
Mixed verbs
Put
see, stand
take
85
86
87
88
89
within 90
9 1
92
93
94
95
96
97
98
99
100
101
102
103
104
105
106
107
108
109
110
111
112
113
114
115
116
117
118
119
120
121
122
123
124
125
throw, turn
Mixed verbs
Mixed verbs
Banking
Banking
Business
Buying and selling
Health, illness, death
Motoring
Politics and government
The Stock Exchange
Telephoning
Travel
Work and industrial relations
Animals
Animals
Colours
Colours
number
one
two, three, etc.
size, inch, mile
arm, back, blood, bone
brain, chest, ear, elbow
eye
face, finger
foot, feet, hair
hand
head
heart, heel, leg
neck
nose, shoulder
skin, toe
tongue, tooth, teeth
day
hour, minute, moment, night
time
Comparisons with as ... as
Comparisons with as ... as
Comparisons with like
Comparisons with like
Adjective + noun
Pairs of adjectives
Pairs of nouns
Pairs of adverbs
Pairs of verbs
Identical pairs
above, across, after,
at
behind, below, by
Adjective + noun
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