This exercise is based on NL Clay’s Advanced English Exercises (1939).

Read the following snippet from history. To which well-known saying has this tradition given rise? How might you use the phrase today?

In times past, it was customary that, after a successful hunt for deer, the venison would be divided among the huntsmen. The gentlemen would take the choice cuts, and these would be served to them at their high table upon the dais. Those of inferior rank were led to lower tables, where they were served with a pie containing the leftover entrails or umbles (a word derived from Middle French nombles).

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