Практикум по лексикологии английского языка. Часть 2. Фразеология. Маковецкая Н.А - 28 стр.

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   A: Right, and they're certainly doing that.
3) A: I didn't believe those rumours about Nick and Gill, but apparently they are
   seeing each other.
   B: You shouldn't be so naive, you know what they say, no smoke… , eh?
   A: Mm, I suppose you're right.
4) A: Amazing, he's made a fortune from just one shop!
   B: Well, I think it's a case of take care of the pence…
   A: Sure, he's always been very careful with his money.

Exercise 52. Being so expressive, idioms of all kinds are often “deformed” by
writers to produce a certain effect or evoke a certain image in the minds of the
readers. State in what way the authors quoted change the original form of the unit
(e.g. by inserting additional words, by means of lexical substitution, by ellipsis, by
changing the whole structure, etc.)

1. What brains he had were in his hands, and he was slow, and as stubborn as a
    blind mule but he was tough, and you could trust him. (M.Stewart) (as
    stubborn as a mule)
2. Having a kid of her own, she began talking baby shop. (E.Aldington) (talk
    shop)
3. … he caught at the immediate straw of “disorderly conduct” . (O’Henry) (to
    catch at a straw)
4. The small scene, when it was finally shot apparently did please him. I left at the
    end of the day thinking my golden hour had arrived. (C.Moore) (one’s golden
    hour has come)
5. And we don’t want to count our purely putative chickens before they are
    hatched. (W.Plomer) (to count one’s chickens before they are hatched)
6. Most children in Matilda’s place would have burst into floods of tears. (R.Dahl)
    (burst unto tears)
7. Do you suppose if I wasn’t at the end of my rope I’d come to you like this?
    (F.Fitzgerald) (to be at the end of one’s tether)
8. It was odd now, with all his ingrained care for moderation and secure
    investment, Soames ever put his emotional eggs into one basket. First Irene –
    now Fleur. (J.Galsworthy) ( to put all one’s eggs into one basket)
9. Poirot kept the conversation ball rolling some little time longer, but when it
    seemed certain that Mrs.Fowlers had told all that she knew not once but many
    times over, he terminated the interview… (A.Christie) (To keep the ball
    rolling)
10. … and two blue jars stood on the ground nearby calling them all manner of
    sharp names. (J.Steinbeck) (to call smb (bad) names)
11. Nah this is a sensible young feller; … Ah’ll bet yer owt yer like’e agrees wi’me.
    An’why? ‘cos it stands to bloody reason. (J.Priestley) (it stands to reason)
12. Oh, I don’t think I’m denying the importance of the biographical element in
    literary appreciation. I know very well how much a full knowledge of a writer’s
    life… adds to the interpretation of his work. But I am more and more