Idioms

Idioms

Welcome to the class! Today's lesson is on idioms.

Multiple Choice

Let the cat out of the bag

• Spill someone's secret

• Release a trapped cat

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Every cloud has a silver lining

• Clouds have silver poles

• After hardship, there will be ease

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Costs an arm and a leg

• So expensive

• You need to pay by giving your arm and leg

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Beat around the bush

• Beating someone in the bush

• Talking unnecessary things, missing the main point

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Feel a bit under the weather

• Not feeling well

• You're sitting under a weather forecast

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Don't count your chickens before the eggs have hatched

• Keep your eggs safe

• Don't talk about your future until it is confirmed or planned thoroughly

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It takes two to tango

• Let's dance!

• Any conflict involves two persons and needs to be solved by both parties, like dancing but in a complicated way and perhaps not going to be fun

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elbow grease

• greasy skin

• hard work

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right stuff

• necessary or ideal qualities or capabilities

• right thing to do

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black sheep

• shaun the sheep

• a family or a group member that is a disgrace

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hang around

• loiter, wander, wait around

• hanging oneself

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messing around

• behave in a silly or playful way

• make a mess

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tickled pink

• very happy or amused

• tickled by a pink creature (most likely haram)

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in the same boat

• be in the same circumstances

• travel in the same boat

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get very far

• to be successful or achieve something (a goal)

• go to a far distance that your pictures are all over the town

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