II. Set expressions functioning like verbs: V+N: take advantage
V+and+V: pick and choose V+(one’s)+N+(prp): snap ones fingers at V+one+N: give one the bird ‘to fire sb’
V+subordinate clause: see how the land lies ‘to discover the state of affairs’.
III. Set expressions functioning like adjectives: A+and+A: high and mighty
(as)+A+as+N: as old as the hills, as mad as a hatter Set expressions are often used as predicatives but not attributively. In the latter function they are replaced by compounds.
IV. Set expressions functioning like adverbs:
A big group containing many different types of units, some of them with a high frequency index, neutral in style and devoid of expressiveness, others expressive.
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