Assignment 2.

"Is the doctor treating her for nervousness?" - "Oh, dear, no. She's rich enough to have
psychoneurosis."

"Is the doctor treating her for psychoneurosis?" - "Oh, dear, no. She's rich enough to be
nervous. "

Assignment 3. Determine the stylistic features of the following sentences and paraphrase
special vocabulary into neutral:

1. Overtime (time worked in addition to one's normal working hours) emoluments (a

salary, fee, or profit from employment or office) are not available for employees who are
not resident (a person who lives somewhere permanently or on a long-term basis; used to
refer to someone who has a special skill or quality in a group or organization).

Overtime – extension

Emoluments – salary

Resident – inhabitant

2. He had a buddy (a close friend ) from Brooklyn. Sort of a brainy guy who, however,
was just crazy about shooting madman stuff. Yeah, a show-offy-looking (conceited or
confident in a bold or cheeky way) fella (non-standard spelling of fellow, used in
representing speech in various dialects).

Buddy – friend

Show-offy-looking – arrogant

Fella – fellow, boy

3. - It will cost ya (non-standard spelling of you, used to represent a pronunciation) a

hundred bucks to buy that pitcher. - Anyways, I gonna. I was not kidding when I toleja
(shortcut for "told you) I'm pretty loaded t'day (shortcut for “today”).

Ya – you

Toleja – told you

T'day - today

4. He made out like as if he didn't even hear they gonna give him the axe (to dismiss
(someone) from a job) at the institute.

Give him the axe – to dismiss

5. I have our brochure here setting out our services. Were you thinking of interment or
incineration of the deceased (a person who has recently died)?

Deceased – dead

6. Haply (archaic form of “by any chance; perhaps”) some hoary-headed (having the gray
or white hair of advanced age) swain (a country youth) may say, Oft (archaic or literary
form of “often”) have we seen him at the deep of dawn ...(Gray)

Haply – perhaps

Hoary-headed – white-haired

Swain – country youth, boy

Oft – often

7. Tell me, thou (archaic or dialect form of “you”, as the singular subject of a verb) star,
whose wings of light speed thee (archaic or dialect form of “you”, as the singular object
of a verb or preposition) in thy (archaic or dialect form of “your”) fiery flight... (Shelley)

Thou – you

Thee – you

Thy – your

Assignment 4. Match the words with the Cockney slang equivalents:

a) 4
b) 9
c) 1
d) 7
e) 10
f) 11
g) 6
h) 5
i) 8
j) 3
k) 2

Assignment 5.

1- A
2- C
3- B
Assignment 6.
1) phraseological fusions
at sixes and sevens,
neck and crop,
tit for tat,
Assignment 7.
1. a) Someone hit me in the face.
2. b) He doesn't have much experience.
3. c) They don't agree with each other.
4. c) It is about to break down completely.
Assignment 8.
a) positive
to keep in the pin
to look like a thousand dollars
to lend a helping hand
to bring home the bacon
to bury the tomahawk
alive and kicking
Assignment 9.
Expressions
a) to eat the fat of the land
3) phraseological
2) phraseological unities
combinations
to lose one's heart to to meet the requirements,
someone, to take something for
to stick to one's guns, granted,
to know the way the wind is to be the last straw,
blowing, to have a bite,
to make a mistake, to stick to one's word,
in a nutshell, bosom friends,
to fall between two stools, to talk shop,
to turn the scale,
a black sheep
b) negative
to wash one's dirty linen in the public
to take leave of one's senses
to kick the bucket
to call names
to flog a dead horse
to miss the boat
to pull the wool over someone's eyes
leaves without figs
a wet night
the iron in one's soul
Meaning Synonyms
To live comfortably on a  to roll in luxury
surplus of resources,  to live in a bed of
without working very hard.

b) to fish in the air To make vain efforts.
c) to come off cheap To receive a lesser
punishment than one
deserves.
roses
 to seek a hare in a
hen's nest
 to sow the sand
 to get off with a
whole skin
 to get unscathed out
of the battle

Assignment 10.

1) legalism b) to make an affidavit

2) commercialism c) to block the bill
3) theatricalism g) full house
4) military term d)to come out of action
5) naval term e) to be all adrift
6) parliamentarism f) short bill
7) hunters' term a) to draw the badger

Assignment 12.

a) metaphor b) metonymy
the weaker vessel – жінка all ears - дуже уважний
blue bonnet – шотландець an old hand - Досвідчена людина
queer fish - дивак old fox - стара лисиця, хитрун
to count noses - лічити голоси
slow coach