Online English Verbal Phrases, Phrasal Verbs and Idiom Exercises with Answers
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01 VERBAL PHRASES AND IDIOM
Intermediate Idiom Exercise
BOIL
Complete the sentences with the phrases from the list:
boil down to boil dry blood boil
boiling hot day boiling-point boil over
boil away keep the pot boiling pot-boiler
boil it all down boil down to boil down to
01. The kettle ................... and a hole burnt in the bottom of it.
02. The water had all ................
03. A materialist would say it all .................. money.
04. When you .................., things don't change much.
05. The pot ..................... and put the fire out.
06. Inefficiency made the manager so angry his .................
07. A lot of books can be ..................... the length of a magazine article.
08. He gave a lot of excuses, but what they all ................. was, he didn't want to help us.
09. A ................... is a book of little value, written only to make money.
10. We shall have to earn some money if we are to ...............
11. The ..................... is the temperature at which a liquid boils.
12. It was a ..................... in the middle of summer.
©English Teaching Systems Mar2000
01 boil
02 burst
03 count
04 draw
05 fall
06 go on
07 house
08 know
09 set up
10 tell
11 write
