Idioms: Valentin's Day

Idioms: Valentin’s Day

Lizbeth Pacheco Martinez

Daniela Esmeralda Garcia Morales

Multiple Choice

Why don't you ask Mary out? It is the only way to find out if she feels the same, _________.

• hung the moon

• to be the apple of my eye

• faint heart never won fair lady

It really means if you do not take
a chance you will never win. So
in life sometimes you take a
gamble. Sometimes you win
and sometimes you lose.

Faint heart never

won fair lady

Multiple Choice

Everyone else thinks George is just an ordinary guy, but his wife thinks he ______.

• a face only mother

• no love lost between.

• hung the moon.

Hung the Moon

To idealize someone; to
think someone is capable
of enormously difficult acts.

Multiple Choice

There is ________ the two colleagues, they have never liked each other.

• love at first sight

• falling in love

• no love lost between

• blinded by love

There is a mutual animosity
between two people.

No love lost between

Multiple Choice

Despite the fact that she has ______ , she is the best girl for me.

• a man after my own heart

• a face only a mother could love

• to be the apple of my eye

• I've only got eyes for you

A face only a mother
could love

★

We always look young and
beautiful to our mother.

★

Even if you break out in pimples or
the first wrinkles appear on your
face, your mother will still say that
her child is the most beautiful of
all.

★

Nevertheless, this idiom in English
means “not very attractive.”

Multiple Choice

Look at Susan, Joe broke up with her a year ago, but she still ____ for him.

• carry a torch

• under someone's spell

• hook, line, and sinker

• hung the moon

To continue to be in love
with someone even after
a relationship has ended.

Carry a Torch

Multiple Choice

I was so in love with him I was totally ready to believe his lies - I fell for them ______.

• under someone's spell

• old flame

• to give someone the cold shoulder

• hook, line, and sinker

★

To be completely
deceived

★

​Hook, line, and sinker

Used to emphasize that someone has been completely deceived or tricked.

Multiple Choice

Jenna broke up with Ted. But now she's ____ again.

• under his spell

• smitten with Ted

• had a crush on Ted

• take my breath away

Under Someone’s Spell

●Fascinated, entranced by
someone.

●To be strongly attracted to
someone and influenced by
them.

Multiple Choice

His daughter is the _______.

• a match made in heaven

• apple of his eye

• a face only a mother could love

• chew the fat

★

Someone whom you cherish

above all others.

★

A person or thing that someone

loves very much.

The Apple of My Eye

Multiple Choice

I've been _____!

• left

• launched

• abandoned

• dumped

The word ‘dump’ means to
discard carelessly or without
much feeling. When a relationship
ends, there is usually sadness on
both sides.

To dump, or be

dumped

GRACIAS

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Feliz San Valentin