Практикум по лексикологии английского языка. Часть 2. Фразеология. Маковецкая Н.А - 22 стр.

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E    get on with your essay.
F    I’m sure you’ll get through the exam.
G     they are going to take me on.
H     at first no one owned up.

Exercise 38. Write a new sentence as similar as possible in meaning to the
original one, but using the word given. This word must not be altered in any
way.The phrases follow the pattern: verb + noun + proposition.

1.   She hadn’t been planning to go to Egypt, but she went anyway. | spur
2.   I didn’t sleep all night because the baby kept crying. | wink
3.   The instructions are so complicated I can’t understand them at all. | sense
4.   I’d like to make an attempt at running my own business. | ago
5.   His explanation did little to clear up the mystery. | light
6.   The next time he saw her he didn’t recognize her. He just walked right past her.
     | recognition

Exercise 39. In the sentences below there are culture-linked phrases. Classify
them according to their etymology. You can turn to the reference material.

1. At the foot of the 4th pinnacle I met my Waterloo. The face of the 5th pinnacle
rose sheer above us, and it was evident even to me that we wouldn’t be attempting
it. (Cobuild Dictionary of Idioms, 1955) 2. It’s no good my saying one swallow
doesn’t make a summer: he doesn’t see that it was just a fluke, he thinks the
whole thing was due to his own cleverness. It may ruin him. (S.Maugham) 3. “I
have not permitted myself, gentlemen, to conclude that I am the best man in the
country, but I am reminded in this connection of an Dutch farmer who remarked …
that it was not best to swap horses when crossing the stream” . (A.Lincoln) 4.
“Why did he come all the way here?” – “He wanted to see me.” – “What did he
want?” – “He was holding an olive branch. He said he wanted to make some sort
of statement.” (E.S.Gardner) 5. Tom seemed to be all right without it, and as for
me, I wanted to postpone crossing that particular Rubicon until I felt … right
about it. (J.Wain) 6. And now even Peter disapproved of her to the point of not
caring to be seen in public with her. That was the last straw. (M.Mitchell) 7.
Don’t you think for one moment that I don’t know of Berenice Fleming here in
New York, and how you’re dancing attendance on her – because I do. (Th.
Dreiser) 8. Oh, by the way, if you want a bath, take one there ain’t a Peeping Tom
on the place. (F.Knebel) 9. Apparently he did not even trouble to acknowledge a
very gracious epistle from Richard giving him the Hobson’s choice of going to the
Egypt expedition as second-in-command or returning to Mysore. (R.Aldington) 10.
I understand you want a baby, but don’t you think you should tie the knot first. In
fact maybe you should get a girlfriend first. (Internet) 11. “I don’t want to burn all
my bridges behind me,” he told himself. “I’ve got to have at least one friend
among the solid men here in town. (Sh. Anderson) 12. He seized with avidity upon
the subject which had for him all the charm of forbidden fruit. (B.Russel) 13. I