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The contents organize idioms by parts of speech and usage patterns, including keywords with idiomatic uses, adjectives and adverbs, noun phrases, and idiomatic pairings. Practice materials are further grouped by special subject themes such as banking, buying and selling, health and illness, motoring, politics, the Stock Exchange, telephoning, travel, and work relations, supporting targeted learning and reinforcement.","English Idioms  \nExercises on Idioms  \nJennifer Seidl  \nA second edition of Idioms in Practice  \nOxford University Press  \nOxford University Press,  \nWalton Street, Oxford OX2 6DP  \nOxford New York  \nAthens Auckland Bangkok Bombay Calcutta Cape Town Dar es Salaam Delhi Florence Hong Kong Istanbul Karachi  Lumpur Madras Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Nairobi Paris  Taipei Tokyo Toronto  \nand associated companies in Berlin Ibadan  \nOxford and Oxford  arc  \ntrade marks of Oxford University Press  \nISBN  19 432772 8  \nFirst edition 1982 (reprinted 4 times) Second edition 1989  \nSixth impression 1995  \n Jennifer  1982, 1989  \nNo un authorized photocopying  \nAll rights reserved. No part of this publication may  reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without  prior written permission of Oxford University Press.  \nThis book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of  or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher's prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.  \nIllustrations by Diana Gold  \nSet by Pentacor Ltd, High Wycombe Printed in Hong Kong  \nContents  \nList ofexercises 4  \nIntroduction   \nKeywords with idiomatic uses 6  \nAdjectives and adverbs 6  \nNouns 13  \nMiscellaneous 17  \nIdioms with nouns and adjectives  \nNoun phrases 22  \nAdjective + noun 23  \nIdiomatic pairs 26  \nPairs of adjectives 26  \nPairs of nouns 26  \nPairs of adverbs 27  \nPairs of verbs 28  \nIdentical pairs 28  \nIdioms with prepositions 29  \nPhrasal verbs   \nIdioms from special subjects   \nBanking  Business 60  \nBuying and selling 61  \nHealth, illness, death 61  \nMotoring 62  \nPolitics and government 62  \nThe Stock Exchange 63  \nTelephoning 63  \nTravel 64  \nWork and industrial relations 64  \nIdioms with keywords from special categories 66  \nAnimals 66  \n 68  \nNumbers, size, measurement 69  \nParts of the body 72  \nTime 80  \nIdioms with comparisions 83  \n with as ... as 83  \nComparisons with like 85  \nVerbal idioms  Key 87  \nList of exercises  \nbad  \nbig  \ndead  \nflat  \ngood  \nhard  \nhigh  \nhot  \nlong  \nold short thick, thin end  \nline matter mind point bring  \nword world all how  \nit as subject  \nit as object that there  \nwhat  \nNoun phrases  \nNoun phrases Adjective + noun  \nAdjective + noun   \nAdjective + noun Pairs of adjectives  \nPairs of nouns  \nPairs of adverbs  \nPairs of verbs Identical pairs  \nabove, across, after, against at  \nbehind, below, by  \n43 for, from  \n44 in  \n45 off  \n46 on  \n47  over  \n48 round, to, under, up, within 49 be  \n50 break, bring  \n51 call, carry, catch  \n52 come  \n53 cut, do 54   \n55   \n56 hang, have  \n57 hold  \n58 keep  \n59 look  \n60 make 61  62   \n63 run  \n64 see  \n65 set  \n66 sit, stand  \n67 take  \n68 turn  \n69 Nominalized forms  \n70 Nominalized forms  \n71 break, bring  \n72 come  \n73 do 74   \n75 give 76   \n77 have (got)  \n78 keep  \n79 make 80   \n81 Mixed verbs 82   \n83 see, stand  \n84 take  \n85  \n86  \n87  \n88  \n89  \n90  \n91  \n92  \n93  \n94  \n95  \n96  \n97  \n98  \n99  \n100  \n101  \n102  \n105  \n![image](https://weboffice-doc-exporter-sg-prod.obs.ap-south","cbCaiiQ3gt1ZyETj","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiiQ3gt1ZyETj","pdf",1268628,2,1,95,"English","en",105,"# Contents\n## Introduction\n## Keywords with idiomatic uses\n## Adjectives and adverbs\n## Nouns\n## Miscellaneous\n## Idioms with nouns and adjectives\n## Idioms with prepositions and phrasal verbs\n## Idioms from special subjects","[{\"question\":\"What kinds of idioms are included in the exercises?\",\"answer\":\"The exercises cover idioms organized by grammatical roles such as adjectives, adverbs, nouns, noun phrases, and idiomatic pairs. 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