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FEATURE
Wildly irregular or no longer insuperable?
Approaches to teaching and
learning phrasal verbs

COLUMNS

Language interference
False friends between
Spanish and English

Focus on Phrasal Verbs:
Introduction
How new phrasal verbs develop

New word of the month
From metrosexual to metrosessuale:
the global influence of English in
the creation of neologisms

Corpora tips
Googling for idiomatic language
Search engines as corpora tools


Corpora tips
Googling for idiomatic language
Search engines as corpora tools
by Mairi MacDonald

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Activity 1 Idioms gap fill

Answers

1 get off your high horse
2 give a dog a bad name
3 hit the nail on the head
4 twist somebody around your little finger
5 like getting blood from a stone
6 like the cat that got the cream
7 see neither hide nor hair of
   
a twist somebody around your little finger
b give a dog a bad name
c see neither hide nor hair of
d like getting blood from a stone
e get off your high horse
f hit the nail on the head
g like the cat that got the cream

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