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19*4 1 You're too young to smoke.
This is a play on words on the two meanings of smoke - to smoke a cigarette and a fire or
chimney smokes (i.e give out smoke).
2 I think I'm going down with something.
This is a play on words on two meanings of going down. There is the literal meaning go down
(descend) and then there is the expression, 'go down with an illness', which means be at the
start of an attack of that illness.
3 Let's play draughts.
This is a play on words on the two meanings of draughts. One is the game played with round
counters and a chess board and the other is a current of air as in 'There's a terrible draught
coming from under the door'.
4 He wanted to draw the curtains.
This is a play on words on two meanings of draw. The first means make a picture and the
second means pull.
5 Because it's full of dates.
This is a play on words on the two meanings of dates. One refers to 1066, 1892 and all that
and the other to a sweet fruit coming from a kind of palm tree or to an evening spent together
by two people (usually romantic).
6 A drum takes a lot of beating.
This is a play on words on two meanings of beating. A drummer beats a drum. There is also
an expression, 'takes a lot of beating' which means 'is hard to improve on'.
7 Because it's got a tender behind.
This is a play on words on two meanings of two words - tender and behind. Tender can mean
either susceptible to pain, or a wagon for fuel and water behind a steam locomotive. Behind is
normally, of course, a preposition but it can also be an informal noun meaning 'bottom', as in
the part of the body that a person sits on.
8 A nervous wreck.
A wreck is a boat or ship that, for example, hits a rock and sinks to the bottom of the sea. A
nervous wreck, however, is an expression commonly used to describe someone who is
extremely nervous.

Unit 20

20. 1 1 Prior 3 By the time 5 Previously/Earlier 7 WhedOnceIAfter
2 Till then 4 Whilewhen 6 As soon as 8 The momenthninute
Other possible sentences:
While she was in Paris, she missed home a lot.
She went to the theatre after she'd been to the Pompidou Centre.
While driving home from Glasgow, she saw a bad accident on the motorway.
Prior to going on to Glasgow, she was in Manchester.

.Z Possible answers:
1 ... I usually dream a lot.
2 ... I usually feel guilty and go on a diet for a while.
3 ... look at the clock to see what time it is.
4 ... lived in the same house.
5 ... reading a story.
6 ... go back home and look for a job.
7 ... double-check that everything is booked.
8 ... upset and want to make it up as soon as possible.

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