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a. PRACTICE THE IDIOMS

Susan is telling the story of how she met her husband. Fill in the
blanks, using the following idioms:

love at first sight go ahead
plugging away treated him like dirt
crunch time crank out
making out crazy about
broke up with head over heels in love

I met Bob in college. He was in my English Literature class. I

liked him right away. For me, it was I

wrote him several love poems, though I never gave them to him.

Then I found out that he had a girlfriend. I saw him

with a girl named Joyce. It looked like she was

Bob too. But later that week, I heard that she was
a nasty person and that she . So I decided

to and ask him to the movies. He said he

was too busy. It was , and he had to

a paper for literature class and study for several

exams. But I didn’t give up. I kept . Then

one day he Joyce and asked me out to

dinner. That was 25 years ago, and we’re still together. Fortu-

nately, we’re still with each other!

ANSWERS TO LESSON 14, p. 164

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