Idioms 1

After a few months you will start getting the _____ of the language and expressing yourself quite well.

If you get the_______, you understand what is happening in a situation.

It's hard to get your ______ round figures this big.

I've told him so many times - it just goes in one ear and out _____ ______

Social media paint all sportsmen as heroes or villains. There is no _______ area in between.

I listened to them, took their comments ______ ______ , and then made the decision.

I guess I should bring you up to _______ on what's been happening since I came to see you yesterday.

He lost his car keys but admitted that his brain was like a ________.

They had been talking at cross _______ earlier, he realized. They hadn't been offering him a share of the deal at all.

She looked confused at what he said and he began to wonder if he'd got his wires ________.