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Exercise 1a Match the beginnings and endings. Click on one of the options in grey in the bottom
half, then on the appropriate box in the top half. If you change your mind, just
repeat the process.
4. The various news stories about the lead singer has had a snowball
9. She had thought him quite good-looking the night before, but in the cold
a) under with his own work, he could you give you a hand with the report.
b) fish. She never even smiles when she takes your order.
e) sweat when he saw how steep the drop in front of him was.
h) shoulder lately. But I don’t know what I’ve done to annoy him.
Exercise 1b. Complete the idioms in the top half with words from the box
effect · fish · heart · light · look · shoulder · snow · snowball · snowed · sweat
6. to be a cold
Exercise 1c. Match the definitions in the second half to the idioms in the top half.
Enter the number of the question in b into the appropriate box in c
Idiom No.
a. you do this when you are very frightened or anxious
b. look at somebody in an unfriendly or disapproving way
c. somebody who is unfriendly or emotionless
d. ignore or avoid somebody, often for no apparent reason
e. clearly and calmly, usually the next day
f. to be innocent, morally perfect
g. to have very little hope of doing something
h. when something increases rapidly in size or importance
i. to be very busy
j. said when somebody has cold hands
Exercise 1d Practice - enter one word into each gap
1. He seems a bit of a cold at first, but he warms up when you get to know him.
2. He's been giving me the cold all week, and I have no idea why.
3. It seemed a wonderful idea in the pub last night, but in the cold light of it's lost some
of its appeal.
4. We're totally snowed at work at the moment, what with this huge order.
5. He hasn't got a snowball’s in hell of getting that job.
6. I out in a cold sweat just at the thought of what I had done.
7. She gave him a stare when he asked where she had been.
8. The way she talks you would think she was as pure as the snow, but that's not exactly
what I've heard from other people.
9. He's got such cold hands! - You know what they say, cold hands warm .
10. At first starting very slowly, sales of smartphones have in the last couple of years.
Exercise 2a Match the beginnings and endings. Click on one of the options in grey in the bottom
half, then on the appropriate box in the top half. If you change your mind, just
repeat the process.
1. We hadn't seen much of this actress lately, but she's certainly come in
j) feet over the whole idea of applying for Peter's old job.
Use the examples from the Exercise 2a to work out the form of the idioms and their
meanings
Exercise 2b. Complete the idioms in the top half with words from the box
Click and drop - click on a word in the box, then on a suitable gap
break · come · cut · get · leave (x2) · pour · put · blow · skate
2. to somebody cold
3. to on thin ice
4. to the ice
6. to something on ice
Exercise 2c. Match the definitions in the second half to the idioms in the top half. Enter
the number of the question in b into the appropriate box in c
Idiom No.
a. put yourself in a risky situation
b. be nervous about doing something you were planning to do
c. when sth, for example a book or film, has no effect on sb
d. when sb's actions fail to have a positive effect on sb else
e. criticise a plan or idea, or give reasons why it won't work or is not viable
f. set a project etc aside, possibly to be dealt with later
g. say or do something that makes people feel more relaxed
h. keep changing your mind about something
i. exclude somebody from being part of a group or activity
j. become accepted by a particular group or by society
1. We haven't the resources at the moment, so we'll just have to put this project ice.
2. She the ice by telling the audience a joke.
3. Last night's concert me completely cold; the music seemed to have no emotion at all.
Long disdained by the West because of its military dictatorship, this country is now making big efforts to
4.
come in the cold.
5. They left us all in the cold and wouldn't give us any information.
6. He was going to ask her to marry him, but got cold at the last moment.
7. His lame excuses for the botch-up cut little with the boss.
8. She always hot and cold about things; you don't know what she's going to think from
one moment to the next.
9. He's always cold water on any ideas we have.
10. You were skating on rather ice when you told the boss he was wrong, weren't you?