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English Rhetoric 1 Habit is a cable; every day we weave thread, and soon we cannot break it. 2 The growing savings and loan scandal is a time bomb for President Bush that might go off this year but could cause his serious political troubles. 3 He is something of political chameleon. 4 Too many professionally prepared resume read like a pitch from an old-time snake oil pedlar. 5 Carlos Ledher was to cocaine transportation what Henry Ford was to cars. 6 Military operation on inner-city streets is a domestic Vietnam, a dangerous no-win struggle fought by confused, misdirected and unappreciated troops. 7 The talk on raising taxes was a red flag to many voters. (black flag, yellow flag, white flag) 8 There is a mixture of the tiger and the ape in the character of a Frenchman. 9 Nature’s first green is gold,/ Her hardest hue to hold./ Her early leaf’s a flower;/ But only so an hour./ Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief,/So dawn goes down to day./ Nothing gold can stay. 10 In the age of internet, it is observed that a lie goes halfway around the world before truth has time to get its trousers on. With network, truth never catches up with half-truth. 11 take the pulse of voters 12 Just as clothes can make the man, corporate America abandoned the dull grey suit of skyscrapers. 13 They saw liberty and justice sitting by his side.. 14 tremble like leaf 15 The moon hung above us like a golden mango.16 The family is like potato. 17 Karajan had ruled his august orchestra, the Berlin Philharmonic-of which he had been named conductor for life in 1955-with a brilliant ear and an iron fist.18 He might have a good smile but he has iron teeth. 19 show its teeth 20 to give technical muscle, to use legislative muscle 20 pointing fingers, to raise an eyebrow, 22 Most Alzhemier’s disease isn’t hereditary; the key risk factor is age, not family history. 23 a two-way sword takes double toll 24 political leverage 25 The Celtics is the team with best bench.26 appointment to