Idioms describing people

Even when everyone else is panicking, Lele ________

• is head and shoulders above everyone else

• keeps his head

• is an odd-ball

• is as good as gold

Mary is top of the class. She's ____________ above everyone else.

• round the bend

• a big-head

• over the top

• head and shoulders

There is no point ____________________. The problem won't go away!

• having your head screwed on

• burying your head in the sand

• having your head in the clouds

• having a heart of gold

Lisa's sometimes a little out of touch with reality. She _______

• has her head screwed on

• has a head for heights

• has her head in the clouds

• is a real know-all

Asia is very sensible and knows what she is doing. She_________

• has a head like a sieve

• has her head screwed on

• has a good head for figures

• is a lazy-bones

I don't want to go to the top of the Pontina Tower. I don't have________________

• a head like a sieve

• a head for heights

• my heart in the right place

• a heart of gold

Ask Matteo to check the accounts. He has______________

• a good head for heights

• a good head for numbers

• a good head for figures

• a good head like a sieve

Lisa has to write everything in her diary because she ________

• has her head screwed on

• has a memory over the top

• is round the bend

• has a memory like a sieve

She works in a soup kitchen feeding the poor. She _________

• has a heart of gold

• has a golden heart

• is a pain in the neck

• gets on everyone's nerves

Don't expect any sympathy from Peter; he's __________

• got a heart of gold

• as good as gold

• as hard as nails

• got his heart in the right place