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Idioms Art and creativity
1 Match the idioms (A–C) to the situations that explain them.
Nothing much happens in the first half hour or so of the film, but it picks up later on.
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2 This is not the image we want to portray in our advertising campaign. You’ll need to
rethink it.
3 I’m really glad I kept this 1990s video game console – I could get quite a lot money for
it if I sold it online.
It’s back to the drawing board. It’s a slow burner. It’s a collector’s item.
A B C
2 S P E A K Work in pairs. How did the situations help you choose the idioms?
3 Complete the sentences with the art words from the box.
A b o u t E n g l i s h
art canvas eye mark mould
Idiomatic phrases
1 Like other celebrated artists of the 20th century, Dali left his on the
are often coined by
world through both his art and his personality.
people working in
2 There’s no fixed job specification so you can take it in the direction you see fit. It’s a
different professions.
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blank .
For example, the artist
Peter Arno first used As I turned the corner, the building caught my due to its garish colours.
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back to the drawing
4 After experimenting for ages, she’s managed to get her photoshop skills down to a
board in a comic strip
fine .
in The New Yorker
5 Jennifer broke the in her family by becoming an artist rather than a
in 1941. It shows a
doctor like everyone else.
man holding some
engineering plans
4 Match the idioms 1–4 to their definitions a–d.
walking away from a
1 to be a breath of fresh air a to be very popular
damaged plane. The
2 to bear no resemblance to b to waste time and effort doing something
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back to the drawing
3 to go down a storm c to be new and make everything feel more
board.”
interesting and exciting
4 to reinvent the wheel
to have a completely different appearance
d
5 Complete the sentences with the correct idiom from Exercise 4.
1 The family-orientated scheme for the new community centre is going to
with the local parent groups.
2 Portraits are not my strong point; this last one of my mother her.
Let’s just use the same plan as before. We don’t need to here.
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4 James’s creativity and enthusiasm in this old stuffy organisation.
6 When learning idiomatic language, it is helpful to record its structure. Match the
phrases in Exercises 1, 3 and 4 to the structures below.
1 Noun phrases
adjective + noun: ,
A
B noun + noun:
D i s c u s s i n g i d i o m s
C noun + prepositional phrase:
Discuss the differences
2 Verb + noun
in meaning between
these idioms:
A verb + noun with definite article:
a blank canvas /
B verb + noun with indefinite article:
a clean slate
3 Longer phrases
go down a storm /
A verb + noun + preposition
go down like a lead
B verb + pronoun + prepositional phrase
balloon
verb + pronoun + noun
catch your eye / catch C
your breath
D verb + prepositional phrase
7 S P E A K Work in pairs. Take turns to make sentences using the idioms in Exercise 1,
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3 and 4. Listen to each other and correct any mistakes you hear with the structures.
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