EXERCISES

Exercise 12. Read the sentences below and find the errors in the idioms in bold. Write them correctly

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1. Stop beeting about the bush and tell me who broke the window last night.

2. I love spending my holidays of the beaten track .

3. I have a friend who is a black sheep of the family : a complete failure!

4. We are all grin with envy — our friend bought a huge mansion that had cost him 5 million pounds.

5. Unless they find investors with ready money to get the project started, they will continue to be between the devil and the dip blue sea .

6. If something’s bothering you, then tell me. But don’t wash our dirty lining in public .

7. After the holiday she returned to work as feet as a fiddle .

8. Helen is not very happy with the situation — she fills under the whether now.

9. There were four of us in the family and our father worked long hours to make both ends meat .

10. According to the recent survey conducted by Liverpool University people who are ‘birds of a feather make better families than those who are opposites.

11. Isn’t it funny how you can still get butterflys in your stomach , even though you have known the person for years?

12. Why does my face go beet red while exercising?

13. Exporting herring to Holland is a bit like carrying coal to Newcastle .

14. Okay, it is not the TV-set of your dreams but it is a present and you shouldn’t look a gift horse in the month .

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