Практикум по лексикологии английского языка. Часть 2. Фразеология. Маковецкая Н.А - 30 стр.

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    Parliament, a lawyer, a dress-maker and an author. (S.Maugham) (birds of a
    feather flock together)
3. Well, believe it or not, that story is made up out of the whole cloth… It’s the
    perfect answer to people who say there’s no smoke without fire. Believe me this
    smoke was made by rubbing two pieces of dry stick together. (J.Tey) (there is
    no smoke without a fire)
4. What’s the good of being sentimental? Father’s dear – I am awfully fond of
    him. You’ve no idea how I worry him! He has that delightful early Victorian
    view that short skirts and smoking are immoral. You can imagine what a thorn
    in the flesh I am to him. (A.Christie) (a thorn in the flesh / side of smb)
5. It was only that she had a complex – a silver spoon, and it had become natural
    in her mouth. (J.Galsworthy) (to be born with a silver spoon in one’s mouth)
6. She could set all society by the ears. (R.Worren) (set smb by the ears)
7. Half an hour later I stole to the open door of the room. She was still and white
    as the sheets of the bed. (J.Galsworthy) (as white as a sheet)
8. I didn’t add, because I was afraid they would think it cynical, that maybe if only
    Jack Almond hadn’t had those wonderfully long eyelashes he might now have
    been alive and well, minister to some foreign power and on the high road to the
    Embassy in Paris. (S.Maugham) (be on the road to smth, the high road)
9. We distinctly charge the dustman with throwing what they ought to clear away
    into the eyes of the public.(Ch.Dickens) (throw dust in smb’s eyes)
10. A good deal of water has flowed under the Thames’ bridges since the report of
    … last December. (W.G.Smith) (much water has flown under the bridges)
11. “You prefer to call a spade a spade” . – “No, I don’t” , said Jennie, “Spades have
    nothing to do with it.” (A.Wilson) (to call a spade a spade)
12. “Watton knows which side his bread is buttered.” – “What extraordinary
    expressions we do use. It’s hard to imagine that any man have failed to know
    which side his piece of bread is buttered. (A.Wilson) (to know which side
    one’s bread is buttered)
13. Cook arrived with coffee, and put down the tray with the air of a camel
    exhibiting the last straw. (J.Priestley) (it’s the last straw that broke the
    camel’s back)
14. … The blossom, too, was late this year – no blossom before they left! Well, the
    milk was spilled! (J.Galsworthy) (there’s no use crying over spilt milk)
15. A new leaf! She would go at once to Bertie Curfew and get him to turn it over
    for her! (J.Galsworthy) (to turn over a new leaf)
16. Milksop tied to his mother’s. (J.Galsworthy) (to be tied to one’s mother’s
    apron strings)
17. Richard’s live-and-let-live methods had given place, almost overnight, to the
    burning of heretics. For three generations heretics had burned. (J.Tey) (live and
    let live)
18. Michael was still strange, Winifrid still lost, John still buried alive, and nothing
    seemed new under the sun. (J.Galsworthy) (nothing new under the sun)