Exercise IV. Discriminate between different types of violation of phraseological units.

1. I always say beauty is only sin deep. (Saki)

2. It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard. (D. Parker)

3. You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.

(E. Hubbard)

4. I stumbled back to the flat wondering if I could turn Rebecca into a buffalo and set her on fire without creating enough smoke to alert Scotland Yard. (H. Fielding).

5. The same thing is true of London, but in a less marked degree; there birds of a feather flock much less together. (W.S. Maugham)

6. Guide: “Quick! There is a leopard. Shoot him on the spot!”

Lord Dumbleigh: “Which spot? I say, be specific, my man.”

7. A man in the house is worth two in the street. (M. West)

8. A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to Hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip. (Anonymous)

9. When I’m good, I’m very, very good, but when I’m bad, I’m better.

(M. West)

10. In any case, I packed my trunk fast and came up here. I thought I’d better see my bridges in flames behind me before I finished writing: to you. They are entirely reduced to ashes now. (J. Webster)

11. It was a joy to me the way he never knew when his leg had been pulled. (D. du Maurier)

12. I decided he must be the skeleton in the family cupboard. (D. du Maurier)

13. “The hotel is run by a Miss Dupont – Mademoiselle Dupont,” Carley explained. “But it seems she’s away in Brest for the day.”

“When the cat’s away,” Ma said. (H.E. Bates)

14. “Right first time,” she said. “Crazy. Mad. Mad as those hares.”

(H.E. Bates)

15. They seemed nearer, not only mentally, but physically, when they read, than when she was in his arms, and this was often, for they fell half into love almost from the first. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

16. “You were brought up to work – not especially to marry. Now you’ve found your first nut to crack and it’s a good nut – go ahead and put whatever happens down to experience.” (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

17. Dick got up to Zurich on less Achilles’ heels than would be necessary to equip a centipede. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

18. Wolf-like under his sheep’s clothing of long-staple Australian wool, he considered the world of pleasure – the incorruptible Mediterranean with sweet old dirt caked in the olives trees, the pleasant girl near Savona with a face as green and rose as the colour of an illuminated missal.

(F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

19. “You’re the solid one, you do the work. It’s a case of hare and tortoise – and in my opinion the hare’s race is almost done.” (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

20. “Familiarity, I think, bred discontent.” (M. Gayle)

Не знайшли потрібну інформацію? Скористайтесь пошуком google:

Генерація сторінки за: 0.005 сек.