1. They say eighty per cent of the data (accumulated) in the
world’s computers is in English.
2. Don’t touch anything until the police arrive. - They have
already arrived. And who is it they are chasing?
3. I’m at my wit’s/wits’ end what this man wants from us. -
For God’s/goodness’/heaven’s sake don’t be so naive! All he
wants is our money but he won’t get it.
4.St. Thomas’ Hospital is one of the oldest in London. It is
within a stone’s throw, just five minutes’ walk/a five-minute
walk through St. James’s park.
5. This ring is not mine, it’s my grandmother’s. It was bought
at Tiffany’s and cost a fortune.
6. I’ve brought you a new series of Keats’/Keats’s poems. You
can read them to you heart’s content.
7. I hate that disgusting habit of your neighbours’ to turn the
television full tilt. - They bought a new Sony six months ago and
still can’t enjoy it enough.
8. Still waters run deep. - That describes him to a hair’s
breadth/to a hair. So you’d better stay away from him to keep
out of harm’s way.
9. Is that really a Dali in your grandfather’s house? - Actually
he has got two Dalis, and I remember seeing a Picasso and a
Chagall in his study.
10. Everybody is glad of/about Charles’/Charles’s success.
Let’s go and congratulate him for appearance’s sake.
11. There are reports about unusual phenomena on Mars’s
surface.
12. Of all fish I prefer trout and salmon although I’m not
much of a fish-lover.
13. The sun’s rays/sunbeams penetrated the thick foliage/
leaves and made Sir Robert Fox’s estate look even grander.
14. She forgave everybody at death’s door/on her death-bed
for the family’s sake.
15. Collins is a very reliable dictionary and I always keep it
at/within arm’s reach/at hand.
16. You are on a the razor’s/razor edge. Be careful for safety’s
sake.
17. He accepted/adopted another religion/faith at sword’s
point/at gunpoint.