Reduplication-based idioms 2

The words used below can be found in Wiktionary at https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:English_reduplications

Ex. I Write the following idioms using ordinary (orthographic) English spelling.

a. /'tʃʌŋki 'mʌŋki/ b. /'krɪsˌkrɒs/ c. /'fʌdi-ˌdʌdi/ d. /'heltə 'skeltə/ e. /'hɒdʒˌpɒdʒ/ f. /'dʒɪbə-ˌdʒæbə/ g. /'nɪk-ˌnæk/ h. /ˌlʊki-'luː/

Ex. II Fill in the gaps in the following sentences using the phrases from Exercise I.

1. David Mitchell often plays posh, ..................... characters trying to cope with the standards of modern society.

2. The students were running ........................... instead of coming back to the classroom.

3. Do you think it's a valuable ornament or just an old glass ..................... ?

4. Sally's on a diet. She's always been a ...................... and now she wants to lose weight before summer.

5. Instead of playing games on your phone, you could go outside and play ....................... or hide-and-seek.

6. Let's stop the .......................... and get back to work.

7. When Jason fell off a ladder and spilled blue paint all over himself, several ......................s gathered around him but no one helped him.

8. Our old furniture was a .......................... of the things we'd inherited or bought cheaply in our twenties. It was time to buy something new.

KEY

I. a. chunky monkey   b. crisscross   c. fuddy-duddy   d. helter-skelter   e. hodgepodge   f. jibber-jabber   g. knick-knack   h. looky-loo

II. 1. fuddy-duddy, 2. helter-skelter, 3. knick-knack, 4. chunky monkey, 5. crisscross, 6. jibber-jabber, 7. looky-loos, 8. hodgepodge