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.3 1. 5 1.1 .5 1.2. 7 1.3. 8 1.4 11 1.4.1. 12 1.4.2. 13 1.4.3. 15 1.4.4. 16 1.5. 16 2 22 2.1. 22 2.2 25 2.3 XVI - XX . .2. XVII - XX , .34 2.4 40 2.5 42 2.6 .43 2.7 44 2.8 45 46 . 48 ?3 15 б ?26 23 1. 1.1 phrasis logos ?19 37 ?7 243 ?12 49 1 2 A. ?37 , ?38 , ?24 1.2. 1865 - 1947 phraseologie ?5 58 1 2 3 ?15 8 1. les groupements libres 2. les groupments usuels une grave maladie - une dangereuse, serieuse maladie 3. les series phraseologiques

remporter une victorie courir un danger - 4. les unites phraseologiques ?2 69 1 2 ?5 60 ?5 60 1.3 ?5 60 ?2 , ?4 , ?9 , ?15 , ?23 , ?32 ? ? ?9 83 look fixedly - to stare sufferings of mind or body - pain ? 78 ?16 ? ?35 birds of a feather flock together - people who have the same interests, ideas, etc. are attracted to each other and stay close together the blind leading the blind - a situation in which the person who is leading or advising others knows a little as they do. ?35 ?2 , ?4 , ?23 ?23 ?1 15 ?15 12

?1 8 1.4 ?7 ?7 89 1.4.1 kick the bucket send smb. to Coventry at bay be at smb.s beck and call to rain cats and dogs be all thumbs Kilkenny cats ?21 35 bay beck to be all thumbs ones fingers are all thumbs. Kilkenny cats Kilkenny ? Irishtown ? XVII ?16 ? send smb. to Coventry ? The History of the Great Rebellion and Civil

Wars in England ?16 1 2 3. 4 5 ?32 73 . kick the bucket - to die send smb. to Coventry - to ignore 1.4.2 to spill the beans - to burn bridges - to have other fish to fry - to throw dust into smb.s eyes - to burn ones fingers - to throw mud at smb to be narrow in the shoulders - to paint the devil blacker than he is - to put a spoke in smb.s wheel to hold ones cards close to ones chest to gild refined gold to paint the lily ?25 50 ?25 51 make a mountain out of a molehill molehill

mountain 1 to throw dust into smb.s eyes, to be narrow in the shoulders, to burn ones fingers, to burn bridges 2. to put a spoke in smb.s wheel 3. to hold ones cards close to ones chest 4 to throw dust into smb.s eyes, to paint the devil blacker than he is 5 to gild refined gold to paint the lily . 1.4.3 a bosom friend a pitched battle to have a narrow escape to frown ones eyebrows Adams apple a Sisyfean labor rack ones brains to pay attention to smb ?32 75 1 a bosom friend a bosom

buddy - 2. a pitched battle a fierce battle - 3. he frowned his thick eyebrows, 4. a Sisyfean labor a labor of Sisyphus - 5 a bosom friend ?32 76 . 1.4.4 ?32 76 live and learn better untaught than ill taught many men, many mind easier said then done nothing is impossible to a willing heart ?16 . 1.5 ?9 19 ?11 51 rest on ones laurels the salt of the earth to play with fire ones hour has struck there is no smoke without fire busy as a bee ?21 28 to

promise wonders, to promise the moon East or West, home is the best to buy pig in a poke the first portent sign the game is not worth the candle the talk of the town dont count your chickens before they are hatched to play into smb.s hands all is not gold that glitters not to see the wood for the trees to go to bed to spread before the eyes, to be an open book as old as the hills ?31 15 to burn ones fingers 1 2 to be narrow in the shoulders Dont mention it to throw the book at smb to go to the sea to go to sea

- to draw a line to draw the line ?8 74 - 78 1 to put the cart before the horse Lets not put the cart too far ahead the horse E.S. Gardner . 2 to have a millstone about ones neck ? have an albatross about ones neck The Ancient Mariner 3 Ive got a cold Its in your feet. B. Manning to get cold feet 4 He complained to Fleur that the book dealt with nothing but birds in

the bush. J. Galsworthy A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush A bird in the bush ?8 80 1 as cold as ice Augean stable s the salt of the earth swallow the pill - 2 a drop in the bucket a fly in the ointment it is raining cats and dogs - 3 to rob Peter to pay Paul to burn the candle on both ends 4 to keep ones head to keep ones head above water to keep ones pecker up - 5 the moon is not seen when the sun shines 6 carry coals to

Newcastle 2 2.1 ?24 110 ?24 111 The apple of Sodom The beam the mote in ones eye The blind leading the blind By the sweat of ones brow The camel and the needles eye Can the leopard change his spots? A crown of glory Daily bread A drop in the bucket A fly in the ointment

Loaves and fishes No man can serve two masters The prodigal son The promised land A prophet is not without honor, save in his own country To bear ones cross To condemn oneself out of ones mouth To escape by the skin of ones teeth To kill the fatted calf To laugh to scorn To sit under ones vine and fig-tree

To sow the wind and reap the whirlwind To worship the golden calf ?28 49 to kill the fatted calf gall and wormwood the wormwood and the gall whatever a man sows, that shall he reap to sow whatever a man soweth, that shall he reap Not to let ones left hand know what ones right hand does When thou doest alms let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth forbidden fruit Jobs comforter Judas kiss a prodigal son a dead letter 2.2 the golden age the apple of discord

Pandoras box Achilles heel Augean stable s a labor of Hercules a labor of Sisyphus Lares and Penates the thread of Ariadne Homeric laughter an Iliad of woes a sardonic laugh Penelopes web winged words - between Scylla and Charybdis on the knees of the Gods - on the razors edge like a Trojan the Trojan

Horse to blow hot and cold to add insult to injury - to kill the goose that laid the golden eggs to cry wolf too often - the lions share - the last straw that broke the camels back sour grapes to nourish a viper in ones bosom - an ass in a lions skin a fly on the wheel to take time by the forelock the small of the lamp to know where the shoe pinches the skeleton at the feast to call a spade a spade ?16 a snake in the grass the golden mean - the sinews of war anger is a short madness 2.3

XVI - XX 2.3.1 ?16 ? 350 . Macbeth To make assurance double sure The be-all and end-all The milk of human kindness To screw ones courage to the sticking place To win golden opinions At one fell swoop The sere and yellow leaf Pride of place Full of sound and fury Hamlet To be or not to be? To cudgel ones brains The observed of all observers

To be hoist with ones own petard To do yeoman service Our withers are unwrung To shuffle off this mortal coil To give pause to smb. To out-Herod Herod To know a hawk from a handsaw Caviar to the general Germane to the matter A towering passion The primrose path of dalliance Theres the rub From whose bourne no traveller returns

In the minds eye To the manner born Shreds and patches Sweets to the sweet To the top of ones bent general Othello The green-eyed monster To chronicle small beer The seamy side To wear ones heart upon ones sleeve Trifles light as air Curled darlings Moving accident s

Ocular proof A foregone conclusion The head and front of The pity of it King Henry IV To eat one out of house and home The wish is father to the thought The better part of valour is discretion King Henry V To give the devil his due King John To gild refined gold To paint the lily Twelfth Night Midsummer madness The whirligig of time

Cakes and ale Merchant of Venice To have smb. on the hip To ones hearts content A Daniel come to judgement A pound of flesh With bated breath As You Like It How the world wags? In good set terms Lay it on with a trowel Sermons in stones Midsummer Nights Dream Fancy free The beginning of the end

King Lear Every inch a king More sinned against than sinning Much Ado About Nothing Comparisons are odorous Good men and true Troilus and Creseide Hit or miss Romeo and Juliet A fools paradise - Comedy of Errors Neither rhyme nor reason Antonius and Cleopatra Salad days Julius Caesar An itching palm

Tempest A sea-change Coriolanus A triton among the minnows - Loves Labour Lost Thats flat to wear ones heart upon ones sleeve for days to peck at Othello to wear ones heart upon ones sleeve. upon - on. Its lovely to be able to tell the world what she means to me. Howard adds I never back off from showing my emotions whatever they are.

I think if we all wore our hearts on our sleeves a bit more wed all get on a lot better. The times the better part of valour is discretion King Henry IV discretion is the better part of valour applaud cheer to the echo applaud to the echo - Macbeth cram ram thrust smth. down smb.s throat thrust smth. down smb.s throat - Titus Andronicus buy golden opinions buy win. at one fell swoop

Macbeth at one swoop. They go quick, one after another - five of them vanished already at one swoop. S. OCasey from whose bourne no traveller returns bourne 2.3.2. XVII - XX Fools rush in where angels fear to tread An Essay on Criticism Damn with faint praise Epistle to Dr. Arbuth-not Break a butterfly on the wheel Epistle to

Dr. Arbuthnot Who shall decide when doctors disagree? Moral Essays To catch smb. red-handed Ivanhoe Beard the lion in his den Marmion Laugh on the wrong side of ones mouth Rob Roy On ones native path Rob Roy A foeman worthy of smb.s steel The Lady of the Lake Through thick and thin The Canterbury

Tales Murder will out The Canterbury Tales He needs a long spoon that sups with the devil. He who sups with the devil should have a long spoon The Canterbury Tales Fall on evil days Paradise Lost Heaven on Earth Paradise on Earth Paradise Lost Confusion worse confounded Paradise Lost The light fantastic toe LAllegro More than meets the ear

Paradise Lost The land of Nod Polite Conversation A sight for sore eyes Polite Conversation All the world and his wife Polite Conversation To quarrel with ones bread and butter Polite Conversation All in the days work Polite Conversation To rain cats and dogs Polite Conversation Someone is walking over my grave

Polite Conversation -1 2 King Charless head David Copperfield Never say die David Copperfield Barkis is willing David Copperfield A bag of bones Oliver Twist An Artful Dodger Oliver Twist The Circumlocution Office Little Dorrit Prunes and prism Little Dorrit How goes the enemy?

Nicholas Nickleby In a Pickwickian sense Pickwick Papers Not to put too fine a point on it Bleack House I XVIII John Bull Law is a Bottomless Pit 1712 , The History of John Bull . John Barleycorn John Barleycorn . as cool as a cucumber Poems on Several Occasions . man Friday Robinson Crusoe a gentlemans gentleman

Everybodys Business . an albatross about ones neck The Ancient Mariner a cup that cheers but not inebriates The Task . to clip smb.s wings - what will Mrs. Grundy say Speed the Plough fly off at a tangent - Humphrey Clinker fit like a glove Humphrey Clinker . small talk Letters to his Son .

XIX as merry as a marriage-bell Childe Harolds Pilgrimage . the child is father of the man few and far between Pleasures of Hope . Paul Pry Paul Pry . Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde . a little rift within the lute Idylls of the King, Merlin and Vivien . mover and shaker XX little

Mary the tail wags the dog The Conundrum of the Workshops corridors of power John Barleycorn ? XVII ? John Barleycorn . to be on the side of the angels , vanity fair Pilgrims Progress 1678 - 1684 . a skeleton in the closet green like a Cheshire cat as mad as a hatter ? as mad as a March hare Alice in Wonderland . 2.4 the almighty dollar - a Rip

Van Winkle the last hurrah the last of the Mohicans bury the hatchet dig up the hatchet go on the war-path ships that pass in the night Tales of Wayside Inn 1893 . the call of the wild the iron heel gone with the wind Gone With the Wind 1867 - 1900 . the grapes of wrath Battle Hymn of the Republic 1862 hitch ones wagon to a star

Society and Solitude 2.5 appetite comes with eating 1515 Buridans ass XIV an ass a donkey between two bundles of hay castles in Spain for smb.s fair eyes for the fair eyes of smb an ivory tower let us return to our muttons to return to ones muttons to pull smb.s the chestnuts out of the fire for smb to make a cats paw of smb You tried to use me as a cats paw to pull chestnuts out of the fire for

Stanley Rider. U. Sinclair ?16 2.6 speech is silvern, silence is golden As the Swiss Inscription says Sprechen ist silbern, schweigen ist golden speech is silvern, silence is golden Sartor Resartus storm and stress 70-80 XVIII Sturm und Drang - between hammer and anvil 1868 the emperor has wears no clothes 1837 an ugly duckling 2.7 the knight of the Rueful Countenance el Caballero de la triste figura. tilt at windmills acometer molinos

de viento 2.8 Aladdins lamp to rub the lamp - Alnascharns dream the old man of the sea an open Sesame ?15 1 1991. 2 ,1989. 3 1997. 4 1990. 5 2001. 6 1990. 7 1986. 8 2001. 9 1990. 10 1999. 11 2001. 12 1990. 13 ,1999. 14 1981. 15 1996. 16. 3 2001. 17 2000. 18 2001. 19 1982. 20 1996. 21 1996. 22 1993. 23 ,1996. 24 1998. 25 1988. 26 1991. 27 1999. 28 2000. 29 1999. 30 1994. 31 1986. 32. 3 1985. 33 ,1981. 34. Howarth, Peter Andrew Phraseology in English Academic Writing Some implications for language learning and dictionary making

Tьbingen Niemlyer, 1996. 35. Longman Dictionary of English Idioms. L 1981. 36. Richard A. Spears American Idioms Dictionary, Lincolnwood, Illinois, USA, 1991. 37. Makkai,A. Idiom Structure in English The Hague, 1987. 38. Weinreich, U. Problems in the Analysis of Idioms Substance and

Structure of Language University of California Press, Berkley and Los Angeles, 1984. To answer a fool according to his folly To be at ease in Zion To be of one mind To bear ones cross To beat swords into plough-shares To beat the air To bend the knee to smb. To bow down in the house of Ammon Built upon sand

To call in question To cast in ones lot with smb. To cast ones bread upon the waters To cast pearls before swine To cast the first stone at smb. To change ones skin To condemn oneself out of ones mouth To darken counsel To dig a pit for smb. To draw a bow at a venture To entertain an angel unawares To escape by the skin of ones teeth

To fall on stony ground To fill up the measure of To find favor with To give short shrift to To gnash the teeth To go from strength to strength Go to Jericho! To gird up ones loins To grind the faces of the poor To have itching ears To have no part nor lot in To have pity on smb. To have someones mantle fall upon one To heap coals of fire on somebodys head

To hide ones light under a bushel To kick against the pricks To kill the fatted calf To laugh to scorn To lift up ones voice To make bricks without straw To possess ones soul in patience To proclaim from the housetops To put ones hand to the plough To search the heart To see eye to eye with somebody

To serve God and Mammon To set ones face against something To set ones house inn order To shake off the dust of ones feet To sit under ones vine and fig-tree To smite hip and thigh To sow the wind and reap the whirlwind To spare ones words To spare the rod and spoil the child To spoil the Egyptians

To strain at a gnat To take counsel To take someones name in vain To touch pitch and be defiled To turn ones face to the wall To turn the other cheek To wash ones hands off To worship the golden calf After ones own heart He is all things to all men The apple of ones eye The apple of Sodom As one man Balm in Gilead To be a proverb and a by-word

The beam the mote in ones eye The blind leading the blind Bowels of mercy The breath of the nostrils A broken reed The burden and the heat of the day By the sweat of ones brow The camel and the needles eye Can the leopard change his spots? The children of this world The chosen people A cloud of witnesses

A crown of glory Daily bread Deep calling to deep A drop in the bucket Of the earth, earthly Egyptian darkness At the eleventh hour Evil communications corrupt good manners An eye for an eye eye for eye, tooth for tooth In fear and trembling Feet of clay Filthy lucre The flesh-pots of Egypt A fly in the ointment Gall and wormwood The gift of tongues

The good Samaritan The Holy of Holies A howling wilderness If they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry? In the flesh In the land of the living In the twinkling of an eye In vain is the net spread in the sight of the bird A labor of love The law of the Medes and Persians The lines have fallen to me in pleasant places

A lion in the way The little leaven that leavens the whole lump Loaves and fishes The Mammon of unrighteousness Milk and honey New wine in old bottles No man can serve two masters No respecter of persons Not a jot or a tittle Off the face of the earth The old Adam The old leaven The olive branch On the wings of the wind

To pour out the vials of wrath on upon Pride goes before a fall The prodigal son The promised land A prophet is not without honor, save in his own country Quit yourselves like men The root of all evil The root of the matter Sackcloth and ashes Safe and sound The salt of the earth The shadow of death A soft answer turns away wrath

The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak Their name is legion A thorn in the flesh A tinkling cymbal A voice in the wilderness The wages of sin The weaker vessel Whatever a man sows, that shall he reap Whited sepulchre The widows cruse With clean hands With the pure, all things are pure A wolf in sheeps clothing

A word in season The writing handwriting on the wall ,