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law and order now and then hit and miss clean and tidy
pick and choose sick and tired leaps and bounds
Suggested sentences:
1 There are lots of courses. You can pick and choose.
2 The flat looks all clean and tidy now for our visitors.
3 I'm sick and tired of traffic jams. I'm going to start using the train.
4 Finding the right pebple was rather difficult; sometimes it was hit and miss.
5 My knowledge of English has progressed in leaps and bounds since I've been using this book.
6 The new Prime Minister promised that law and order would be the most important priority.
7 I've seen her now and then, taking her dog for a walk.
1 or 2 or 3 to 4 or 5 but 6 or

Unit 78

1 ... of gold 3 . . . as gold 5 ... fish
2 ... as nails 4 ... off the mark 6 ... slow-coach

4 top of the class
2 the teacher's pet 5 a lazy-bones (or you could say this person is bone-idle)
3 a big-head
Idioms with gold: to be as good as gold / to have a heart of gold
Idioms with mark: to be quick/slow off the mark
1 ... a head like a sieve. 4 ... has her head screwed on.
2 . . . a good head for figures. 5 ... has his head in the clouds.
3 . . . have a head for heights.
Another example of a key-word family might be eye:
He oniy has eyes for Mary. (he never looks at other girls)
He has eyes in the back of his head. / He has eyes like a hawk. (said of someone who never misses
anything, especially when people are doing something wrong)
She has an eye for antiques. (she is good at spotting them)
Look up eye in a good dictionary and see how many more idioms there are using the word.

a) your nerves (always with possessive, my, our, John's, etc.) b) the neck (always used with the)

1 an odd-ball 2 middle-of-the-road 3 over the top
1 If you say that someone's heart's in the right place, you mean they have good intentions and
want to do good things, but have actually done something wrong/stupid/irritating without
intending to.
2 If a person is a bit of a square peg in a round hole, we mean they do not fit in naturally, they
are out of place in the situation they find themselves in.
3 If you say I was miles away, you mean you were not concentrating on what was happening or
what someone was saying, and were thinking about something else.

Unit 79

79.1 positive: to be over the moon to feel/be as pleased as Punch
negative: to feel/be a bit down to feellbe browned off

English Vocabulary in Use