Read the sentences and discuss different ways in which J. Galsworthy refreshes proverbs and sayings by violating phraseological units. What effect is gained by this?
1. He (James) intended to take an opportunity this afternoon of speaking to Irene. A word in time saves nine.
2. «I can just remember her. She's (Irene) a skeleton in the family cup board, isn't she? And they are such fun».
«She wasn't much of a skeleton as I remember her», murmured Euphemia, «extremely well covered».
3. After sounding him (Old Jolyon), the fellow pulled a long face as long as your arm, and ordered him to stay in bed and give up smoking.
4. He (Old Jolyon) ought perhaps to have put a spoke in the wheel of their marriage.
5. «Well, you are a thief and a blackguard». – It had been the last straw on a sorely loaded consciousness.