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Idioms #3

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

"Get the sack" means

a)

Get lunch

b)

Get fired

c)

Get groceries

d)

Get knocked down

2.

"Eat crow" means

a)

To enjoy a banquet

b)

To swallow your pride or your fear and propose marriage

c)

To be forced to do something disagreeable; to be punished for a mistake you made

d)

To eat gourmet cooking

3.

"Cook your goose" means

a)

Enjoy a gourmet meal

b)

Perform with great skill, energy, emtjisoas,, and excellence

c)

To put an end to; to ruin somebody's plan

d)

Very expensive or high-priced

4.

"Goody Two-shoes" means

a)

To decline in heath

b)

To search with great care or attention

c)

A person who thinks he or she is perfect and tries to be

d)

To fail miserably

5.

"Green with envy" means

a)

extremely jealous

b)

extremely sad

c)

extremely intelligent

d)

extremely good at farming

6.

"Hanging by a thread" means

a)

Directions for hanging pictures

b)

Clothing that is falling apart

c)

To be in a dangerous or unsafe position; to depend on something very small to save you

d)

A worn basketball net

7.

"High horse" means

a)

An expression of great surprise

b)

Acting superior and arrogant as if you were better than other people

c)

To be well-meaning and kind-hearted

d)

An extremely high price or charge for something

8.

"In the doghouse" means

a)

It is better not to know bad news

b)

In disgrace or dislike; facing punishment

c)

In very few words; briefly; clearly and to the point

d)

Certain of success; fixed

9.

"Long in the tooth" means

a)

Lowest ranking, least important person

b)

To lose everything, especially money

c)

To think and treat people as if they were lower in quality than you

d)

Old; aged

10.

Mad as a hatter" means

a)

To scold or punish strictly

b)

Completely crazy, strange, eccentric

c)

Very upset

d)

To exaggerate the seriousness of a situation