English Idioms

When we say that something happens ____________, what we mean is that it happens very rarely.

• a bird eye view

• ups and downs

• something is beside the point

• once in a blue moon

It’s been ___________ for two days and now there some flooding in the coastal areas

• raining cats and dogs

• ups and downs

• beating the clock

• keeping something under my hats

From the plane we had ___________ of London.

• to keep something under our hats

• a white elephant

• a bird eye view

• rain or shine

If you__________, you do not tell anyone else about it.

• beat the clock

• have a white elephant

• keep something under your hats

• have something that is beside the point

Our consciousness gradually becomes untouched by the ____________ of life and eventually we achieve uninterrupted happiness.

• ups and downs

• rain or shine

• bird eye view

• cats and dogs

If someone is making an argument and you understood that argument but came up with a different conclusion, then your conclusion is ______________.

• beating the clock

• a white elephant

• a bird eye view

• beside the point

No matter what the circumstances, as in we promised we would finish the project tomorrow, __________.

• cats and dogs

• rain or shine

• ups and downs

• a white elephant

Mark tried ___________ to work this morning, but he failed and arrived late.

• to be in sb's shoes

• to beat the clock

• to keep something under his hat

• to beat around the bush

As such, the film stands as a beautiful ___________ , a flagrant waste of time and resources.

• white elephant

• bird eye view

• rain or shine

• cats and dogs

to be in a situation, usually a bad or difficult situation, that another person is in

• to keep something under my hats

• to beat the clock

• to beat around the bush

• to be in sb's shoes