Exercise 9. Here are 20 English proverbs with one word missing from each. Opposite each proverb three words are printed. Indicate which word belongs to the proverb.

e.g. A fool and his...... are soon parted.

a. food. b. friends, c. money. - Answer: с

Proverbs	a		b		с
1) Birds of a.., flock together.	family		feather		species
2) A bird in the hand is worth two in the...	cage		bush		stomach
3) Don’t look a... horse in the mouth.	wild		sick		gift
4) ...is thicker than water.	whisky		blood		soup
5) You can't get blood out of a...	chicken		stone		mother in-law
6) Those who live in.. .houses shouldn't throw stones.	country		paper		glass
7) All is not ...that glitters.	anger		jealousy		gold
8) Make...while the sun shines,	friends		hay		whoopee
9) It's an... wind that blows nobody any good.		ill		angry	east
10) In for a penny in for a...		hundred		pound	halfpenny
11) The labourer is worthy of his...		hire		rest	work
12)Every... has a silver lining.		jewel box		cloud	quarrel
13) A fault confessed is.. .redressed.		half		always	already
14) A stitch in time saves...		time		nine	twenty
15) One man's ...is another man's poison,		drink		medicine	meat
16) He who ..the piper calls the tune.		marries		invites	pays
17) As you make your...so you must lie on it.		bed		cushion	carpet
18) Where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be		ambitious		wise	educated
19) A miss is as good as a ...		mile		madam	mother
20) Never say ...		damn!		never	die

Exercise 10. Explain the origin of allusions in the following examples.

1. Much Ado About loveless "I do".

2. Pop Lolitas: Britney Spears and her sisters.

3. Lend me your Ears.

4. Big Brother Isn’t Watching Any More.

5. Schindler of the art world back in the picture.

6. It was a Disraeli occasion of political gossip, much more about personalities than politics.

7. This aged Scrooge, decided to start with my earliest crime. I'm sending each brother a cheque for 20$ the present value of 1$ in 1930.

8. On a Cliflhanger with Miss Marple.

9. I thanked him. He deprecated my thanks. He had he said, only done his duty as expected to by Englsnd.

10. If it all works out as planned the appropriate response will be the same as Archimedes when he leapt naked from his bath after working out the principles of buoyancy Eurika!

11. Manchester City fans are Rudyard Kipling devotees they meet with triumph and disaster and treat those two imposters just the same.

12. Mr. Blair should remember Humpty-Dumpty. "When 1 make a word to a lot of work like that," said the distinguished egg, "T always pay extra."

13. Several hundreds of us are being given this Peter Pan opportunity to recover our lost youths.

14. Who will pass the Mary Poppin's test?

15. ''Maybe Little Red Riding Hood was not as innocent as she's painted and maybe the Wolf was a more three dimensional character than in fable he seems.'"

16. A chance to Re-Arm the Venus de Milo.

17. He attacked the use of resources in the independent sector as a 'Trojan-horse' for privatisation. But patients don't care whether their bed is private, public, or even stuffed with Trojan-horsehair as long as their suffering is relieved,

18. There is no doubt, that Lord Cranbourne dominates the residue of the Conservatives as the House of Lords ... . His successor as Leader of the Opposition, Lord Stratchclyde, is an amiable and competent man, but there's no doubting which peer is Sherlock Holmes and which is Dr. Watson.

19. Not for nothing did she [Mrs. Quandt] earn the moniker "The Nordic Evita" like the genuine article from Argentina, - money and power have always appealed even though she herself lives frugally, gives no parties and hardly ever attends others.

20. Get him to the Bus on Time.

21. For twenty years I have been your most humble secret servant, ready at any time to rob the scales of the same blind goddess whom my young heart was brought up to revere.