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(a) She was very house-proud. There wasn't a ______ of dirt in her kitchen.

(b) They were so hungry they ate the whole loaf of bread without letting a single

______ fall to the ground.

(c) The desert stretched for miles. Nothing green. Not a single ______ of grass.

(d) We watched the ship as it sailed away until it was just a ______ on the horizon.

(e) His views are dangerous and extreme, and yet there is a ______ of truth in what

he says.

(f) The accusations against him are completely groundless. There isn't a ______ of

evidence to support them.

(g) Archaeologists are examining a ______ of a vase which they think is over

5,000 years old.

(h) There now seems to be a ______ of hope that the strike will be averted.

(i) The famine is so bad in that area that the people haven't seen a single______ of

rice for weeks.

(j) One day in June 1987, he suddenly disappeared without ______ and no one has

seen him since.

(k) The police found a tiny ______ of lipstick on the wineglass.

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(a) “Whisky?” - “Well, just a ______, please.”

(b) Don’t ask me about the economic situation. I haven’t a______.

(c) I’m just going out for a ______ of fresh air.

(d) I watched a rain-______trickling slowly down the window.

(e) I’d like my coffee almost black please. Just a very small ___ of milk.

(f) “What a lovely smell. What is it?” – “Some spices and I think some seafood and also just a ______ of lemon.”

(g) I wrote the phone-number down on a ______ of paper I tore from an envelope.

2.14. a) Study these words and expressions connected with clothes (1-9) and shops (1-6) used metaphorically and match them with their definitions on the right. Think of their Russian equivalents.

Clothes metaphors:

1) off the cuff (a) (usually of a woman) be the

dominant partner in a marriage

2) to be hand in glove with someone (b) involving mystery and secrecy

3) cloak-and-dagger (c) simple and plain

4) to have/ take the shirt off smb’s back (d) spending as little as possible

5) (to do smth.) on a shoestring (e) have a close working relationship

with someone

6) without frills (f) restrict smb’s freedom

7) to put someone in s strait-jacket (g) without having prepared anything

8) to wear the trousers (h) to deprive smb. of his/her last

possession

9) shop around

Shop metaphors:

1) to set up shop a) to discuss smb’s work

2) all over the shop b) to begin doing something

3) to shop around c) to stop doing something, working

4) to shut up shop d) to compare prices, quality of goods at

several shops before buying anything

5) to talk shop e) a meeting where things are discussed but

no action is ever taken

6) a talking-shop f) spread out everywhere

b) Explain the meaning of the following idioms and use them in your sentences.

hem in, burst at seams, cloak in, feather in one’s cap

c) Many idioms are based on colours. Put each of the following phrases in its correct place in the sentences below.

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