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Idioms From literature
1 Match the authors to their books. Some authors wrote more than one of the books.
A b o u t E n g l i s h
Lewis Carroll Miguel de Cervantes Geoffrey Chaucer
A large number of
Charles Dickens Thomas Hardy Joseph Heller Homer
the idioms currently
Walter Scott William Shakespeare Jonathan Swift
in use by English
speakers are thought
Romeo and Juliet A Pair of Blue Eyes David Copperfield
to have been coined
by Shakespeare.
Although it is unclear Catch-22 The Canterbury Tales Don Quixote
whether he was the
original creative force
Ivanhoe The Merry Wives of Windsor Iliad
behind the idioms
found in his literary
Alice in Wonderland A Christmas Carol
works, he is likely to
have been the first
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person to write them
down, which is why so
2 S P E A K Have you ever read any of the books from Exercise 1? Do you know what they
many are attributed
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are about?
to him.
3 Read the sentences and discuss the meaning of the phrases in bold.
1 Antonio calling me lazy when he doesn’t even have a job is the pot calling the
kettle black.
D i s c u s s i n g i d i o m s
2 The company wants to hire new people to expand and make profit, but it can’t afford
the additional wages – it’s a Catch-22 situation.
Discuss the differences
3 Mastering the art of building realistic characters is the Achilles’ heel of many
in meaning between
budding authors and the primary reason for getting rejected by publishers.
these idioms:
Shifting attitudes to work mean people want more flexibility and control in their
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• a wild goose chase /
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a lost cause
more common.
• an Achilles heel /
5 The cabin, now just a couple of hours’ walk away, would be a sight for sore eyes for
a chink in the
the exhausted climbers.
armour
I only meant to have a quick glance through a couple of holidays websites, but before
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• give you the
I knew it I’d gone down the rabbit hole and had more than twenty tabs open.
creeps / give you
the chills 7 By planting false evidence, Harrison had managed to lead the detectives on a wild
goose chase involving the fruitless search of a warehouse, which gave him time
to escape.
8 The dilapidated house at the end of the lane, covered in ivy and rumoured to be
haunted, was seldom visited by the villagers as it gave them the creeps.
As someone who’s still young with few commitments and no dependents you could
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do anything or go anywhere – the world is your oyster.
My phone was as dead as a doornail after I accidentally dropped it in a puddle.
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11 His friends knew that Isabel was not a great match for Sam but love is blind so he
didn’t heed their warnings.
Season 1 ends on such a cliffhanger, with the central figures left fighting for their
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lives in the jungle, that audiences are clamouring for Season 2 to be released earlier
than scheduled so they can find out what happened.
4 Match the phrases in bold in Exercise 3 with the books they come from in Exercise 1.
5 S P E A K Work in pairs. Which idioms and phrases come from literature in
your language?

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