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01 VERBAL PHRASES AND IDIOM
Intermediate Idiom Exercise
BOIL
With a little patience, you should have been able to work out all of these without much difficulty.
01. The kettle boiled dry and a hole burnt in the bottom of it.
02. The water had all boiled away.
03. A materialist would say it all boils down to money.
04. When you boil it down, things don't change much.
05. The pot boiled over and put the fire out.
06. Inefficiency made the manager so angry his blood boiled.
07. A lot of books can be boiled down to the length of a magazine article.
08. He gave a lot of excuses, but what they all boiled down to was, he didn't want to help us.
09. A potboiler is a book of little value, written only to make money.
10. We shall have to earn some money if we are to keep the pot boiling.
11. The boiling point is the temperature at which a liquid boils.
12. It was a boiling hot day in the middle of summer.
©English Teaching Systems March 2000
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