Idiom Practice #1

When the cat's away the mice will play.

• without mice the cat's leave

• when the cat leaves, the mice play

• without supervision people will misbehave

• when grownups leave, mice will play

Break a leg!

• Good luck!

• Hope you don't do well!

• Be careful!

• Don't even try!

Bury the hatchet.

• Don't talk to me!

• Dig a hole.

• Apologize and make up.

• Do not chop down the tree.

When it rains, it pours.

• It's raining very hard.

• Your luck gets worse.

• It's raining cats and dogs.

• Grab an umbrella.

Don't make a mountain out of a molehill.

• Don't make a big deal out of something small.

• Climb a molehill instead of a mountain.

• Make a big deal out of something small.

• Don't climb the mountain.

On cloud nine

• Sad

• Distracted

• Floating

• Happy

It's as plain as the nose on your face.

• It's not clear.

• It's obvious.

• It's hidden.

• It's not there.

Spill the beans

• Dropped a bucket of beans

• Clumsy

• Tell a secret

• Keep a secret

Two heads are better than one.

• You have a bigger brain.

• Two is bigger than one.

• Two people are more than one.

• Two people can solve a problem more easily than one.

Time flies when you are having fun!

• Having fun makes time go by quickly.

• The clock has wings.

• Having fun makes time go by slowly.

• Having fun makes clocks have wings.