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.