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1. Richard had grown quite angry because of recent new policies at work. He began yelling and making irrational comments. He threatened to start throwing components of his computer, stacks of papers, and other items on his desk about the room. He ripped his tie and shirt off, sat down, and began laughing aloud. I cautiously approached him to tell him that, while I understood his frustration, there was no excuse to . . . what? What cliche best finishes what I am saying?
2. If I were to be fired or dismissed from my current job, I, according to the expression, would get something. What would I get?
3. Perhaps, you've been a victim of the "green-eyed monster". Perhaps, you know that this means you've been a victim of jealousy. Perhaps, you even know that the coinage of this expression is credited to William Shakespeare. However, do you perhaps know in which of Shakespeare's plays this exact expression occurs?
4. To "give short shrift" to someone or something is "to give little time and/or consideration" to that subject. Usually, this "shrift" is given with little sympathy or none at all. For example, one might say, "The press was given short shrift by the President following her live statement". What is the origin of the expression "give short shrift"? To what does "shrift" refer?
5. My father and I were standing in a checkout line at a local grocery store when I noticed he had grown sorely annoyed because the lane in which we were waiting was distinctly for customers with ten items or fewer and the individual before us had a cart overflowing with fifty items or more. I could tell my father was annoyed because he remarked, "That really ________________!" What expression below did my father use?
6. According to a very old expression, whose origin is derived from the Bible, what is always redundantly joined with "wormwood" to create an expression used to denote either a bitter medicine or a bitter experience?
7. If someone has taken a circuitous route or continued without any direction, that person is said to have "gone around" whose "barn"?
8. If someone has made an attempt to "gild the lily", what has that person attempted?
9. If you are not gaining anything from what you are doing, then someone might say to you the "game is not worth the" what?
10. What might someone, borrowing a name from an old story, call another who is so excessively moral or well-behaved as to be irritating?
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