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What does it really mean: "She was pulling my leg."

• She grabbed my leg and tugged on it.
• She hurt my leg.
• She was joking with me. 

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He has so much drive that in an hour he is able to do more work than most people can do in a day.

• road or avenue for cars or other vehicles
• to operate a vehicle, such as a car
• a short trip
• energy; force; strength

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at the end of your rope

• not having enough rope
• standing on the border of your property
• completely out of patience
• extremely happy

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Arlene turned the radio up full blast, but her brother told her to turn it down because he had a headache.

• so it exploded
• as loud as it would go
• quickly
• as quiet as it would go

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What kind of figurative language is being used?
Avery is a tree.

• metaphor
• simile
• onomatopoeia
• alliteration

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He is one tough cookie.

• He eats a lot of cookies
• He likes cookies
• He works hard

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My noisy sister was like a buzzing fly.

• Simile
• Metaphor

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My teacher preapproved my idea for my heritage project. 

• To approve something. 
• To approve something before starting. 
• To approve something again. 
• To approve something after starting. 

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Straight from the horse’s mouth, or often from the mouth of the horse: from the best authority, or from someone you can trust who really experienced what happened.

Read the following passage.

Nalia was unsure what to do. Her teacher had put her in charge of organizing the classroom bulletin board. It was an easy enough task, but she realized that there wasn’t enough space to post everyone’s latest art project. Nalia decided to ask Mr. Willis for help. “Here’s what I’d do,” he explained. “Layer everyone’s projects on top of one another a little, like a collage. It’ll be like art made out of art!” Nalia smiled. She knew she could trust the advice that she got from Mr. Willis, who’d been teaching for 15 years.

Which detail from the passage could be rewritten using the idiom “straight from the horse’s mouth”?

• “Nalia was unsure what to do.”

• “...an easy enough task...”

• “...from Mr. Willis, who’d been teaching for 15 years.”

• “Her teacher had put her in charge of organizing the classroom bulletin board.”

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What does the underlined phrase mean?

Joshua cheated on his text. His teacher saw him. She told his parents. He was in hot water now.

• to stand in water.

• very wet.

• to cheat on something

• a lot of trouble

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