Wood idioms

If you accept a _____ nickel you are tricked, cheated, scammed, or conned.

• silver

• wooden

• diamond

• paper

It is really hard to talk to my grandfather on the telephone, he is as deaf as a _____!

• cork

• tree

• log

• post

My mother taught me how to fry an egg, it’s as easy as falling off a _____.

• branch

• tree

• log

• stump

The thief walked into the crowd and faded into the ______ to avoid the police

• neighbourhood

• woodwork

• landscape

• habitat

The new salesman is making a lot of money already, he could sell ______to a lumber mill.

• stardust

• sawdust

• chalk dust

• diamond dust

The new director of the company wants to cut all the _____ and hire faster workers to make it more profitable.

• deadwood

• deadeyes

• deadlocks

• dead souls

The protesters are really going against the ______ of most people in the city, we don’t believe in their cause.

• establishment

• team

• grain

• clock

When the police came looking for them they headed to tall _____ to escape

• oak

• pine

• timber

• elm

She has had a hard life since her parents have been in hospital but she has a heart of ____ and keeps going.

• ice

• oak

• rock

• stone