English is full of fixed expressions — idioms, collocations, and set phrases that cannot be altered without losing their meaning. From everyday conversation to formal writing, these combinations are essential for sounding truly fluent. Test your knowledge of some of the most common and challenging fixed expressions at C1 level by completing this crossword!
Horizontalement
- 2. Amount charged for a product
- 3. Was not in short form
- 5. clever use of words for effect
- 8. a figurative use of a word
- 10. Easy to understand or see
- 12. For repeated past actions
- 13. describing something as something else
- 16. very informal language or expressions
- 17. a group of words forming expression
- 18. Question word for place
Verticalement
- 1. in whatever way, but, nevertheless
- 2. expressed in a particular way
- 4. Belonging to them
- 6. repeating initial consonant sounds
- 7. a well-known repeated saying
- 9. relating to persuasive use of language
- 11. relating to a well-known saying
- 14. Used sarcastically to disagree
- 14. Morally or factually correct
- 15. For this reason, therefore
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