Idiomatic Expressions (Grade 6)

I can’t afford this Channel purse!

It __________!

I won’t be able to buy anything to eat!

• costs an arm and a leg

• is the best of both worlds

• is a piece of cake

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CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

His birthday party was supposed to be a surprise!

I can’t believe you _____. Now he knows about the surprise birthday party! :(

• killed two birds with one stone

• broke a leg

• let the cat out of the bag.

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CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

I don’t really like going out to the mall anymore. Not in this pandemic.

I only go _______.

• when pigs fly

• once in a blue moon

• when I speak of the devil

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CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

I’m sorry I can’t come into work today. I’m ________. I have a sore throat and runny nose.

• breaking a leg

• feeling under the weather

• seeing him eye to eye

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CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

Mary told her sister Maria just as she was about to leave for their school concert, "I can’t wait to see you perform on stage tonight! ______ Maria!"

• It's a piece of cake

• Break a leg

• Hit the nail on its head

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CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

I have been trying to figure this out for ages. Thanks so much, you’re right. You _______.

• cut corners

• hit the nail on the head

• killed two birds with one stone

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CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

I can’t believe that was our Science test.

I think it was easier than some of the homework we had. Oh boy, it sure was a ______.

• once in a blue moon

• piece of cake

• the best of both worlds

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CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

I feel the butterflies in my stomach every time my Math teacher calls me to recite.

• ate butterflies

• anxious and nervous feeling

• hungry feeling

• happy and excitement feeling

• very sleepy

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CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

I needed help with my homework, so I asked my friend to lend me a hand.

• When someone smile at someone

• Give a hand to your friend

• When you do not help someone

• When you help someone or someone helps

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CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

The boy told the girl, "You are the apple of my eye."

• something that one values

• to be caught in the act of doing something wrong

• choosing to do something unpleasant

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CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B