Практикум по лексикологии английского языка. Часть 2. Фразеология. Маковецкая Н.А - 29 стр.

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    disinclined to expose skeletons that have been so carefully buried. (A.Wilson)
    (a skeleton in the cupboard)
13. It was Sim’s great mistake trying to kill two or rather three birds with one stone.
    (N.Blake) (to kill two birds with one stone)
14. The Allies are reaping in Nazi Germany what they sowed at Versailles
    (A.Huxley) (as a man sows, so shall he reap)
15. Yahmose, whom she despised as the meekest of men, had actually been the one
    to kill Nofret. It turned Satipy’s world upside down. Like most bullying
    women, she was a coward. This new Yahmose terrified her (A.Christie) (a
    bully is always a coward)
16. “Do you hear him?” he said, his grin slow, invisible. Yet rich. “He’s been like a
    cow in a China shop.” (A.Cronin) (a bull in a China shop)
17. “This isn’t Russia, and the tea won’t be Russian, either. We could order tea
    with lemon, if you’d prefer it.” – “Why should I? When in England do as the
    English do?” (B.Hanna) (when in Rome, do as the Romans do)
18. I know how much you hate lies and concealment. I do too. But honestly, it
    might upset the whole apple cart. Uncle Matthew has got an absolute bee in his
    bonnet about early marriages and the way they wreck a man’s career…
    (A.Christie) (to have a bee in one’s bonnet)
19. Taking a look at science-fiction again after a wartime interval, one seemed to
    see indications that it was trying to change its spots. (J.Wyndham) (Can the
    leopard change his spot?)
20. Drake contemplated the situation and shook his head. “This is once I wouldn’t
    want to be standing in your shoes, Perry.” Mason grinned. “They are beginning
    to pinch a little.” (E.S.Gardner) (to be in smb’s shoes)
21. So Annamaria, who had advertised a twenty thousand lire monthly rental, in the
    end doubled the sum, and Fidelman paid through both nostrils, cash for first and
    last months… (B.Malamud) (to pay through the nose)
22. Laurel was upset, but she didn’t want to talk about it, and he respected her right
    to keep her family skeletons locked up in her own closet. (U.Sinclair) (a
    skeleton in the cupboard)

Exercise 53. Instructions as above.

1. When I showed my father his letter and told him how I had replied, he looked at
   me gravely. “Remember,” he said, “about the frying-pan and the fire.”
   (V.Peterson) (out of the frying pan into the fire)
2. Of no city, in my experience, is this more true than of Paris. There high society
   seldom admits outsiders into its midst, the politicians live in their own corrupt
   circle, the bourgeoisie, great and small, frequent one another, writers
   congregate with writers… painters hobnob with painters and musicians with
   musicians. The same thing is true of London, but in a less marked degree; these
   birds of a feather flock much less together, and there are a dozen houses where
   at the same table you may meet a duchess, an actress, a painter, a member of