5. From the list given at the end of this exercise, choose phraseological units which correspond to the ones printed in bold

In the sentences given below. Is there any difference between them (in meaning, in style, etc.)?

1. ...after a disturbed pause I contrived to frame a meagre, though ... true, response: "For one thing, I have no father or mother, brother or sister..." (Ch. В.). 2. Laying all these faults at my door you are putting the saddle on the wrong horse (Hal.). 3. ...he would make an opportunity ... of deliberately taking that writer down a peg or two lower that he deserved, lest his praise might be suspected of having been the outcome of personal motives (Galsw.). 4. "...I am not going to run with the hare and hunt with the hounds," he (Jolyon) thought. "I must act for her..." (id.). 5. "Nevermind," returned the Captain, though he was evidently dismayed by the figures, "all's fish that comes to your net, I suppose?" "Certainly," said Mr. Brogley. "But sprats ain't whales, you know" (Dick.). 6. "You have taken it into your head that I mean to pension you off.... But I don't mean it..." "... that, sir," replied Mr. Wegg, cheering up bravely, "is quite another pair of shoes" (id.). 7. I began to cherish hopes ... that one or both parties had changed their minds (Ch. В.). 8. "We have to keep friends anyhow and hear of each other." "That goes without saying" (H. W.). 9. "It may look hard now but you are going to feel better about it in the long run" (Th. Dr.). 10. "I haven't seen you a long time," he said. "No," answered Soames between close lips, "not since — as a matter of fact, it's about that I've come. You're her trustee, I'm told" (Galsw.). 11. It was a timely spur to Soames's intense and rooted distaste for the washing of dirty linen in public (id.). 12. Some of the small towns ... had never seen a circus, so that Haxby did good business, and Dan Haxby put up his prices, determined to make hay while the sun shone (K. P.) 13. Misfortunes never come singly," said Phelps, smiling, though it was evident that his adventure had somewhat shaken him (C. D.). 14. The coach being already full, he was obliged to postpone his departure until the next night; but even this circumstance had its bright side as well as its dark one.... "So," said Tom comforting himself, "it's very nearly as broad as it's long" (Dick.). 15. "That was a narrow escape," said Alice, a good deal frightened at the sudden change, but very glad to find herself still in existence (L. C). 16. "I won't press you to go back there; at all events, just now," he said in his most caressing tone (Voyn). 17. He tired easily now. No longer could he do a fast twenty rounds, hammer and tongs, fight, fight, fight, from gong to gong. (J. L.). 18. Every time he got money he got drunk; and every time he got drunk he raised Cain around town; and every time he raised Cain he got jailed (Tw.). 19. Mrs. Higgins. How does your housekeeper get on with her? Higgins. Mrs. Pearce? Oh, she's jolly glad to get so much taken off her hands; for before Eliza came, she used to have to find things and remind me of my appointments. But she's got some silly bee in her, bonnet about Eliza (B. Sh.).

1. To cry stinking fish. 2. To be on both sides of the fence. 3. Six of one and half a dozen of the other. 4. It is a matter of course. 5. After all. 6. To crop one's feather. 7. First of all. 8. It never rains but it pours. 9. To have something on the brain. 10. To kick up a row. 11. To take (to get, to have) the wrong sow by the ear. 12. In point of fact. 13. To strike while the iron is hot. 14. Tooth and nail. 15. At any rate. 16. To think better of. 17. All is grist that comes to his mill. 18. That's a horse of another colour. 19. Touch and go.