5. Group the following italicized phraseological units, using Professor a.V. Koonin's classification system. Translate them into Russian.

1. Margot brightened "Now you are talking! That would be a step up for women's lib (= liberation)". 2. Why was I more interested in the one black sheep than in all the white lambs in my care? 3. To the young, cliches seem freshly minted. Hitch your wagon to the star! 4. Out of sight out of mind. Anyway it'll do you good to have a rest from me. 5. In a sense it could be said that the ice was broken between us. 6. Rose Water-ford smothered a giggle, but the others preserved a stony silence. Mrs. Forrester's smile froze on her lips. Albert had dropped a brick. 7. "The fact is that Albert Forrester has made you all look a lot of damned fools." "All," said Clifford Boyleston. "We're all in the same boat". 8. It's no good crying over spilt milk. 9. Like many serious patriots, in her inability to know for certain which way the cat would jump she held her political opinions in suspense. 10. "How long do you want to go for? For always?" "Yes, for always." "Oh, my God!" 11. That also was a gentleman's paper, but it had bees in its bonnet. Bees in bonnets were respectable things, but personally Soames did not care for them.

14. State what ideas the following groups of phraseological units express.

1. 1. An ass between two bundles of hay. 2. To hang (to keep) in suspense. 3. To think twice about something. 4. Not to know one's own mind. 5. To blow hot and cold.

2. 1. To beat the air. 2. To lash the waves. 3. To fish in the air. 4. To milk the ram. 5. To sow the sand. 6. To bay at the moon. 7. To preach (speak) to the winds. 8. To lock the stable-door when the steed is stolen. 9. To hold a farthing candle to the sun. 10. To cast pearls before swine. 11. To carry coals to Newcastle.

3. 1. To square the circle. 2. To make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. 3. To weave a rope of sand. 4. To extract sunbeams from cucumbers. 5. To set the Thames on fire. 6. To milk a he-goat into a sieve. 7. To catch a weasel asleep. 8. To be in two places at once. 9. To prove that black is white and white is black.

4. 1. To unite ones' efforts. 2. To stand (put) shoulder to shoulder. 3. To cling to one another. 4. To make common cause. 5. To go hand in hand with. 6. To take sides with. 7. To be (row, sail) in the same boat.

5. 1. At odds. 2. At loggerheads. 3. At issue. 4. At variance. 5. At cross purposes. 6. At sixes and sevens. 7. At high words.

6. 1. To know what's what. 2. To know a hawk from a handsaw. 3. To know what one is about. 4. To know on which side one's bread is buttered. 5. To see one's way. 6. To see where the wind lies. 7. To see which way the wind blows. 8. To look after the main chance. 9. To cut one's coat according to one's cloth. 10. To stoop to conquer. 11. To sail near the wind. 12. To hit the right nail on the head. 13. To make the most of. 14. To make hay while the sun shines.

7. 1. To begin at the wrong end. 2. To do things by halves. 3. To make two bites of a cherry. 4. To strain at a gnat and swallow a camel. 5. To put the cart before the horse. 6. To have many eggs in one's basket. 7. To aim at a pigeon and kill a crow. 8. To take (get) the wrong sow by the ear. 9. To put the saddle on the wrong horse.

8. 1. In no time. 2. In less than no time. 3. At a stroke. 4. Like a shot. 5. In the twinkling of an eye. 6. Before you can say Jack Robinson. 7. At one jump. 8. On the spot. 9. On the spur of the moment. 10. No sooner said than done.

9. 1. By degrees. 2. Step by step. 3. Bit by bit. 4. Lit­tle by little. 5. Inch by inch. 6. Drop by drop. 7. By inches. 8. By slow degrees. 9. By little and little.