Idiom 7th ELA

A phrase or an expression that has figurative and sometimes literal meaning.

• onomatopoeia

• idiom

• simile

• hyperbole

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CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

If you cut corners when doing something,

• you accomplish two different things at the same thing with very little effort

• you do it badly or cheaply at the expense of high standards

• you do it straightaway

• you get there quicker

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CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

When you see eye to eye with someone,

• you look extremely similar to someone

• you are glad to see this person

• you agree with someone completely

• you see their eye color as they see yours

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CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

The last straw means:

• Actions or communications need more than one person.

• To go to bed.

• Do or say something exactly right.

• The final problem in a series of problems.

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CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

Take with a grain of salt means:

• To hear something from the authoritative source.

• Would never like to do something.

• This is used when someone does not want to choose or make a decision.

• This means not to take what someone says too seriously.

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CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

Cross that bridge when you come to it means:

• When someone finds it difficult to choose between two alternatives.

• This idiom is used when something is very expensive.

• Deal with a problem if and when it becomes necessary, not before.

• To present a counter argument.

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CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

Go the extra mile means:

• A way of asking what someone is thinking.

• To further a loss with mockery or indignity; to worsen an unfavorable situation.

• Looking in the wrong place. Accusing the wrong person.

• To make a special effort/try very hard to achieve your goal.

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CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

Cost an arm and a leg means:

• When someone finds it difficult to choose between two alternatives.

• When something is done badly to save money.

• This idiom is used when something is very expensive.

• This idiom is used to express "Don't make plans for something that might not happen".

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CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

We tried to give Tommy a surprise party for his birthday, but Mary let the cat out of the bag.

• personification

• hyperbole

• alliteration

• idiom

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CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

I don’t mean to toot my own horn, but I’m faster than lightning.

• metaphor/hyperbole

• idiom/hyperbole

• hyperbole/idiom

• idiom/metaphor

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A