Idioms Study Guide

Ace up your sleeve

• A card game

• A trick

• Magic

Sweet Tooth

• You like sweet and sugary foods

• You're nice

• You have a cavity

Tie the knot

• Tie a knot in a game

• Hold hands

• Get married

Put all your eggs in one basket

• Risking everything you have

• Go grocery shopping

• Be organized

On cloud nine

• To win a game

• to be excited

• to be flying

once in a blue moon

• very rarely

• something in space

• never

Out of sight, out of mind

• You don't see it over a period of time, you don't think about it

• You're losing your sight

• You're losing your mind

walking on air

• You're flying

• climbing a mountain

• very happy and excited

Out of the woods

• Out of danger

• out camping

• finishing a hike

Fish out of water

• uncomfortable in an unfamiliar situation

• swimming

• wet