Mr. Know-All. Word combinations to be learnt. Explain and expand on the following

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Mr. Know-All

By W. Somerset Maugham

Word combinations to be learnt

To put up with

To choose to do sth

My heart sank

To share a cabin

To put up with sth

To be all for

To all appearances

To put on airs

I cannot help feeling

To set one at one’s ease

To play patience

To snub sb

To dawn on (upon)

Not be a welcome visitor

To be a good mixer

To run everything

To (in) sb’s face

To get up a game (performance)

To have sb at one’s mercy/to be at one’s mercy

To drop a subject

To bring sb to one’s way of thinking

To have it (things, sth) one’s own way

Except for

The conversation drifted to the subject of sth

To diminish the value of sth

To rush the new topic

To have a fling at sb

To be in the middle of a heated argument

To look into a matter (business)

To go an errand

To take one’s word for it

To bet someone sth

To afford to do sth

To hesitate a moment

To undo sth

To catch sight of sb’s face

To hold a desperate appeal

To be cocksure

A good deal of chaff

In block letters

To tear an envelope into little bits

Explain and expand on the following

1. When I was told the name of my companion my heart sank.

2. It (the name) suggested closed portholes and the night air rigidly excluded.

3. I should have looked upon it with less dismay if my fellow passenger’s name had been Smith or Brown.

4. “Are you English? ” I asked, perhaps, tactlessly. ‘Rather. British to the backbone, that’s what I am. ”

5. King George has many strange subjects.

6. Prohibition was in force and to all appearances the ship was bone-dry.

7. Mr. Kelada flashed an oriental smile at me.

8. The Union Jack is an impressive piece of drapery, but when it is flourished by a gentleman from Alexandria or Beirut, I cannot but feel that it loses somewhat in dignity.

9. I do not want to put on airs, but I cannot help feeling that is seemly in a total stranger to put “mister” before my name when he addresses me.

10. “I’d be interested to know how much you think it costs. ” “Oh, in the trade somewhere round fifteen thousand dollars. But if it was bought on Fifth Avenue I shouldn’t be surprised to hear that anything up to thirty thousand was paid for it. ”

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