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 A lame duck; an ugly duckling, a dolly bird, a bird of ill omen; a
tame cat, a fighting cock; a cold fish; a loose fish; neither fish nor
fowl; an odd fish; a poor fish; a little frog in a big pond, knee-
high to a grasshopper; like a bear with a sore head; a dark horse;
like a lamb led to the slaughter;

 Lady Luck; the Lady of Babylon; a lady of easy virtue;
 best man; a butter-and-egg man; every man has a fool in his
sleeve; every man has his faults; every man has his hobby-horse;
every man has his price; every man has his weak side; every man
is a fool sometimes, and none at all times; every man must eat a
peck of dirt before he dies; a four-letter man; a man can die but
once; a man can do no more than he can; the man of the hour; a
man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds; man
proposes but God disposes; no living man all things can; no man
can serve two masters; no man is a hero to his valet; no man is
born wise or learned; no man is wise at all times; no man loves
his fetters, be they made of gold; the right man in the right place;
a sandwich man; a self-made man; undercover man; an
unfortunate man would be drowned in a teacup; a wise man
changes his mind, a fool never will;

 A smart Aleck; Billy Bunter, good-time Charlie; Dr. Jekyll and
Mr. Hyde; a girl Friday, Jack and Jill; a good Jack makes a good
Jill; Jack in office; Jack the Ripper; Jack of all trades and master
of none; a coal-oil Johnny; Johnny Head-in-the-Air; Johnny on
the spot; Johnny Raw; happy as Larry; Brown, Jones and
Robinson; to astonish the Browns; doubting Thomas; nosy
Parker; peeping Tom.

Grammar Exercises

1.Make up sentences according to the patterns.
1. She is pretty enough to twist a man round her little finger.
2. What strikes one is a penetrating look of those huge eyes of hers
that see you inside out (startles, attracts, waylays, embarrasses,
puzzles).

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