Fill in the missing words from the list of words below, using plural forms where necessary

arm

brain

chest

back

hair

leg

finger

hand

mouth

blood

cheek

heart

stomach

bone

breast

tooth

foot

1. Being retired, he suddenly found himself with lots of time on his ___ but with little to do to occupy it. 2. You need to have a strong ___ to work in a slaughterhouse. 3. He got up very late this morning and then had the ___ to complain about his breakfast being cold. 4. She had a sweet ___ and couldn't resist buying chocolates and cream cakes. 5. None of the students liked Mr Baker. In fact, everyone was glad to see the ___ of him when he left to teach in Italy. 6. I think I'll go and stretch my ___ I've been sitting down all morning and I'm feeling a bit stiff. 7. I've got an essay to write on the history of computing. Unfortunately, I don't know anything about it, so do you mind if I pick your ___? 8. The viewers were up ___ when the television station announced it was going to change the time of the evening news broadcast from 9 o'clock to 9.30. 9. There's something wrong somewhere. I can't put my ___ on what it is exactly, but something just doesn't feel right. 10. The cruel way some owners treat pets makes my ___ boil. 11. "Hurry up, Dorothy! The taxi's waiting!" "All right! Keep your ___ on". 12. Getting a problem off your ___ is the first stage to being able to solve it. 13. She decided to make a clean ___ of everything and confess that she was the one who had stolen the money. 14. You'd better be careful what you say to Samantha. You know how sensitive she is to criticism — she takes everything to ___ 15. I think there's going to be trouble at the meeting tonight, I can feel it in my ___. 16. David and the new boss seem to have got off on the wrong ___. Poor David! There go his chances for promotion.

8. From the list given at the end of this exercise, choose phraseological units which correspond to the ones printed in bold in the sentences given below. Is there any difference between them (in meaning, in style, etc.)?

1....after a disturbed pause I contrived to frame a meagre, though... true, response: "For one thing, I have no father or mother, brother or sister...". 2. Laying all these faults at my door you are putting the saddle on the wrong horse. 3....he would make an opportunity... of deliberately taking that writer down a peg or two lower that he deserved, lest his praise might be suspected of having been the outcome of personal motives. 4. "...I am not going to run with the hare and hunt with the hounds," he (Jolyon) thought. "I must act for her...". 5. "Nevermind," returned the Captain, though he was evidently dismayed by the figures, "all's fish that comes to your net, I suppose?" "Certainly," said Mr. Brogley. "But sprats ain't whales, you know". 6. "You have taken it into your head that I mean to pension you off.... But I don't mean it..." "... that, sir," replied Mr. Wegg, cheering up bravely, "is quite another pair of shoes". 7. I began to cherish hopes... that one or both parties had changed their minds. 8. "We have to keep friends anyhow and hear of each other." "That goes without saying". 9. "It may look hard now but you are going to feel better about it in the long run". 10. "I haven't seen you a long time," he said. "No," answered Soames between close lips, "not since — as a matter of fact, it's about that I've come. You're her trustee, I'm told". 11. It was a timely spur to Soames's intense and rooted distaste for the washing of dirty linen in public. 12. Some of the small towns... had never seen a circus, so that Haxby did good business, and Dan Haxby put up his prices, determined to make hay while the sun. 13. "Misfortunes never come singly," said Phelps, smiling, though it was evident that his adventure had somewhat shaken him. 14. The coach being already full, he was obliged to postpone his departure until the next night; but even this circumstance had its bright side as well as its dark one.... "So," said Tom comforting himself, "it's very nearly as broad as it's long". 15. "That was a narrow escape," said Alice, a good deal frightened at the sudden change, but very glad to find herself still in existence. 16. "I won't press you to go back there; at all events, just now," he said in his most caressing tone. 17. He tired easily now. No longer could he do a fast twenty rounds, hammer and tongs, fight, fight, fight, from gong to gong. 18. Every time he got money he got drunk; and every time he got drunk he raised Cain around town; and every time he raised Cain he got jailed. 19. "How does your housekeeper get on with her, Higgins?" "Mrs. Pearce? Oh, she's jolly glad to get so much taken off her hands; for before Eliza came, she used to have to find things and remind me of my appointments. But she's got some silly bee in her, bonnet about Eliza."

1. To cry stinking fish. 2. To be on both sides of the fence. 3. Six of one and half a dozen of the other. 4. It is a matter of course. 5. After all. 6. To crop one's feather. 7. First of all. 8. It never rains but it pours. 9. To have something on the brain. 10. To kick up a row. 11. To take (to get, to have) the wrong sow by the ear. 12. In point of fact. 13. To strike while the iron is hot. 14. Tooth and nail. 15. At any rate. 16. To think better of. 17. All is grist that comes to his mill. 18. That's a horse of another colour. 19. Touch and go.

9. Comment on the following phraseological units as reflecting various kinds of human activities and pastimes. Explain their figurative meaning. Find synonyms among them.

I. 1. To bait a trap. 2. To be at a loss. 3. To bring to bay. 4. To keep (to hold) someone at bay. 5. To hit below the belt. 6. To have the ball at one's feet. 7. To keep the ball rolling (to keep the ball up, to keep up the ball). 8. To catch (to take) the ball before the bound. 9. To make the best of a bad bargain (job). 10. To be on one's beam-ends (to be laid or thrown on one's beam-ends). 11. To overshoot (to go beyond) the mark. 12. To bark up the wrong tree. 13. To win at a canter (to win hands down). 14. To break ground. 15. To sail under false colours. 16. To come off with flying colours. 17. To lower (to strike) one's colours. 18. To stick to one's colours. 19. To nail one's colours to the mast. 20. To stick (to stand) to one's guns. 21. To put out (to throw out) of gear. 22. To serve before the mast. 23. To bring one's eggs (hogs, goods) to the wrong (bad, fine, pretty) market. 24. To box the compass. 25. To chuck (to throw) up the sponge. 26. To come (to get) down to bedrock. 27. To cut (to slip) the painter. 28. To take the wind out of one's sails. 29. To turn one's coat. 30. To open the ball. 31. To beat about the bush. 32. To have (to hold) the cards (in one's hand or hands).

II. 1. At bay. 2. Before the mast. 3. Between wind and water. 4. Hobson's choice. 5. Lock, stock and barrel. 6. Touch and go. 7. My (our) cake is dough. 8. Preliminary canter. 9. Bag and baggage. 10. A day after (before) the fair.

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