Test your idioms knowledge

To be the apple of your parents' eye means ...

• Be your parent's favourite and most cherished kid

• Make your parents' life so difficult

• Make your parents angry

Be the ..................... in a family

Being the black sheep means ...

• Bringing shame to one's family by being different or doing wrong

• Being always hungry

• Being always late

A family man is ...

• a very authoritarian man

• A man whose family is very large

• A man who is devoted to his wife and children and enjoys spending time with them.

The person who wears the ........... in a family is the person who holds the authority.

Like father, like .....

Blood is thicker than ...

• milk

• oil

• water

• juice

To see eye to eye with someone means ...

• to look steadily at someone

• to agree with someone

• to disagree with someone

• to look at each other

“I wasn’t born with a silver ............ in my mouth. I had to work two jobs to put myself through college.”

"Spare the rod and spoil the child"

This proverb is used to say that if you do not punish a child when he/ she behaves badly or does something wrong, he/ she cannot distinguish between right and wrong

• True

• False