FORM 3 - Idioms

"Are you pulling my leg? It's huge!"

• Are you talking nonsense?

• Are you lying to me?

• Are you kidding?

"Hey, don't be such a wet blanket."

• silly

• an enemy

• spoilsport

• unreasonable

"Look! Your friend is making a beeline for the door!"

• going straight for

• running away

• hunting

• looking

"Don't spare the rod and spoil the child."

• avoid punishing a child and ruin him

• punish a child too often and ruin him

• use the rod to hit a child and ruin him

"Well, birds of a feather flock together."

• children are like birds

• birds always fly in flocks

• children like to mix around

• people of the same sort always mix together

"Oh come on Grandpa, you know that all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy."

• doing homework is dull

• children must not do work

• it is not healthy to work all the time

• we must work and play at the same time

"I must say that raising my teenage daughter is not a bed of roses."

• not sweet-smelling

• not happy

• not easy

• not safe

"Sean sometimes makes me feel so annoyed. I don't want to clip his wings."

• limit his freedom

• punish him too often

• lock him in the house

• control his behavior

"Well, I've learnt to turn a deaf ear."

• speak softly to them

• shout at them

• ignore them

"Well, is it necessary to discuss at the top of your voice?"

• with so much enthusiasm

• as loudly as possible

• so aggressively