Read the following sentences and fillin the missing “parts of the body“ from the box.. The police are underpaid and underequipped while the criminals are armed to the _______________.. t
Trang 1Read the following sentences and fill
in the missing “parts of the body“ from the box
1 Show me somebody with no _s in their cupboard, and I’ll show you a skilful liar
2 The police are underpaid and underequipped while the criminals are armed
to the _
3 Most farmers have bank managers breathing down their _s, so everything has to have an economic reason
4 He survived the accident by the _ of his _
5 Now that he was _ to _ with the inspector, the burgler found it difficult to explain his action
6 I could see nobody But they could see me It made my _ crawl They were watching
7 I think people are taking all this more seriously than we intented It was supposed to be _ in _
8 The young driver will have to _ the bill for the damage
to both cars
9 The situation has reached crisis point because of the bad _ between the two
10 She admits that when she saw the flat Jeremy had set his _ on, her first reaction was surprise
11 There is more to life than keeping one’s to the grindstone and saving for a rainy day
12 The hard fact is that they have got us by the short _s We can’t do anything without material support from them
13 I have a _ to pick with you Let’s talk it over now
tongue teeth heart face
skeleton hair teeth cheek
blood flesh bone face neck
nose skin foot
Trang 21 skeleton (to have a skeleton in the cupboard/closet)
2 teeth (armed to the teeth)
3 necks (to breathe down someone’s neck)
4 skin, teeth (to do sth By the skin of your teeth)
5 face to face
6 flesh (to make somebody’s flesh creep or crawl, to make somebody’s skin crawl)
7 tongue, cheek (sth Is said or written tongue in cheek)
8 foot (to have to foot the bill)
9 blood (there is a bad blood between two people/groups)
10 heart (to set your heart on sth.)
11 nose (to keep one’s nose to the grindstone)
12 hairs (to have somebody by the short hairs)
13 bone (to have a bone to pick with someone)