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Total questions: 60
Worksheet time: 35mins
An apple a day keeps the doctor away
Prevention is superior to reaction
Apples are both red and green
Doctors are bad
The electroweak force is inverse to the number of quarks
First come, first served
Queuing up is both civilised and expected
Get to the front of the line no matter what
Or else the ice cream will melt
Hesitation is detrimental to survival
Practice makes perfect
Continued training leads to success
Continued success makes you perfect
Perfection is better than failing
Don't cry over spilt milk
Worrying yourself over trivial matters is worthless
Conserve both milk and water
Spilling milk is more convenient than crying
Mitochondria are more efficient if you don't add salty water
A stitch in time saves nine
Doing things at the right time is most efficient
You must save nine dollars out of every ten dollars
You must save nine stitches out of every ten stitches
Sewing machines are best
Time and tide wait for none
Things move on, no matter what you do
Nobody will wait for you
Tides come twice a day
Tides change once per day
Action speaks louder than words
The world responds to what you do rather than what you say about it
The decibel measurements for physical activities are proven higher than for vocalised productions
Shouting action gets attention
Words are always empty
A penny saved is a penny earned
Conserving resources is important
Taxes are evil
Please be wary of untrustworthy merchants
A penny gains so much interest that is gives 100 percent returns
The early bird catches the worm
Doing things early will be fruitful
The bird shout seek out a vet
Worms are good for soil
Getting up early sucks
Look before you leap
Due diligence: make checks before you act
Due diligence: measure the angle of falling before jumping
Due diligence: pay five instead of four
Due diligence: pay four instead of five
'A friend in need is a friend indeed'. While this idiom is written using 'indeed', it should be replaced with:
in deed
it should not be changed
in need
in knead
indead
Prevention is better than cure
An apple a day keeps the doctor away
A penny saved is a penny earned
The early bird catches the worm
A friend in need is a friend in deed
Where there's a will there's a way
If you show enough determination your goal is reachable
When parents die, they leave their wealth to their children
If there is no will there is no way
Don't go the wrong way
Kill not the goose that lays the golden eggs
Stewardship: Take care of what benefits you
Stewardship: Serve your servants
Stewardship: You can't eat gold or fry golden eggs anyway
Stewardship: You need more money
God helps those who help themselves
Only you have the greatest control over your fate
God doesn't care about helpless people
God doesn't care about tiny matters
Only you are the best
'A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush'. What is the better interpretation in the modern context.
A) Keep what you have rather than giving it up and chasing something new
B) It is better to leave nature alone as it can sustain itself better without our interference
Both A and B are equally valid
Both A and B are invalid
Experience is the best teacher
There is no way better to learn something by doing it
Teachers are useless
Recent VR (virtual reality) advancements allow us to learn and experience real environments simultaneously
Express yourself
Every cloud has a silver lining
No matter how dark your days are, they will improve
No matter the rain, you shall get silver
Clouds lined by silver nitrate produce more rain
You should not be a wet blanket
'Spare the rod and spoil the child'. What is wrong with this idiom in the context of modern times?
Beating children has been shown to have more negative outcomes than good ones
We should not spare the rod, it is painful
Children are just not getting whipped enough nowadays
It is known than severe beatings lead to greater intelligence
One rotten apple spoils the rest
A bad individual will ruin a team
Ethanol in applies accelerates rotting to reduce time before seeding
Apples will make you sick
A doctor a day will keep the apple away
As you sow, so shall you reap
What you put into something, represents what you shall get out of it
A stitch in time saves mine
Sowing is reapy
'An empty vessel makes the most noise' is most like which Malay idiom about a can with nothing inside it?
Tin Kosong
Apa bila
Simpang tiga
Kopi O Kosong
Time heals old wounds
Either physical or mental pain fade as the years pass
Time is more effective than doctors
Time passage is considered by astrophysicists as a fourth dimension intertwined with the three spatial dimensions
Old wounds scar
All that glitters is not gold
Don't judge a book by its cover
Don't chase wealth needlessly
Invest money for better opportunities
Diamonds refract light much more gloriously than gold ingots
Cut off your nose to spite your face
In anger we may damage ourselves more than anything or anyone else
Your face is unneccessary
If you have no nose you cannot breathe
You tried to spit and it hit your face instead
Unity is strength
We perform better as a team
One is better than being strong
A unit of length is better than two
There is no place like home
Our home the best place for us
Being homeless is very upsetting
You have no home
The first priority in life is to buy a house
Silence is golden
Quiet observation trumps noisy action
Do not talk while the teacher is talking to you
Do not talk while anyone is speaking to you
If you keep quiet you will get rich
Half the loaf is better than none
Be grateful
You will go hungry if you don't eat
Bread is better than people
A loaf a day keeps the fatigue away
'Give someone a fish and you feed them for a day; teach them to fish and you feed them for a lifetime' has been modified because:
'Someone/them' originally said 'man/him', which considers only one gender
'Fish' originally said 'dragon', whereas dragons don't actually exist
'Teach' should be 'show'
This proverb has not been modified
Laugh and the world laughs with you, weep and you weep alone
People are drawn to positive, happy individuals
Please go cry by yourself
There is a phenomenon where laughing is contagious
Individuals hate negative, whiny groups
Better to stumble than make a slip of the tongue
Keep your mouth shut, as it's most dangerous
Slipping on your tongue would clearly result in bodily harm much worse than merely stumbling
Stumbling is okay
Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get
You cannot always get what we want, but sometimes get what we need
Be grateful and care for what we can actually obtain
Every cloud has a silver lining
Stop complaining
Absence makes the heart grow fonder
You appreciate something more when it's out of reach
Not having something leads to cardiac problems
You become addicted to things in reach
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step
Even epic tasks start with the first small actions
Walking 1000 miles is better than 1 step
Walking 1 step is better than 1000 miles
You must focus on individual processes along the way
All good things must come to an end
Great times do not last forever
You are going to die
You are a wet blanket
Party hard because it won't last
A picture is worth a thousand words
Showing and seeing is better than talking and hearing about it
1000 words create a drawn image
A watched pot never boils
Don't obsess over something you've already set into motion
Don't leave things unattended, even for a moment
Don't forget to prepare things properly
Beggars can't be choosers
Half a loaf is better than none
Beggars will die
Being unemployed is a scourge to the economy
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
Every person sees life differently
Beauty is processed through the eye
Looks are crucial to getting noticed
Better late than never
At least you finished it
Don't bother doing it later
Better not start when you know you cannot finish
Late is okay
Birds of a feather flock together
People who are similar are like to spend time together
The early bird gets the worm
The early bird gets worms
Feathers on a wing belong there rather than plucked out for greed
Don't count your chickens before they hatch
Believe results over predictions
Chicks often die early, so prepare a warm nest
Too many eggs are hard to count
Don't judge a book by its cover
Judging by appearances alone is inferior
Judging by appearances alone is superior
Easy come, easy go
If you got something easy, you can lose it easily too
Paths flow better with greater width
If you work hard you will get it all
Hope for the best, prepare for the worst
Be positive and ready to act
Save all your resources for profit
The worst is certainly coming
If it ain't broke, don't fix it
Playing with something that works may make trouble for you
When things are broken, you must fix them
When things are broken, you must NOT fix them
Playing with something broken will break it worse
If you play with fire, you'll get burned
Do something dangerous or beyond your skill level and you will suffer
Fire is dangerous, especially in areas with wood
You must level up to continue
Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer
Pay more attention to those who'd wish you harm
Enemies eventually make better friends than do friends
Friends will betray you the most
Knowledge is power
Knowledge is superior to physical force
Knowledge is inferior to physical force
Knowledge is dangerous
No 'man' is an island
We are a team!
Human beings are not exposed tracks of land surrounded by oceans
Focus on your own problems first
The grass is always greener on the other side
People always want what they don't have
People always have what they don't want
The pen is mightier than the sword
Words and ideas > Force and harm
Harm and Force > Words and ideas
Talk and dream > Action and Haste
Haste and Action > Talk and dream
There is no such thing as a free lunch
Beware of hidden costs
Taxes still apply to giveaway items
Don't eat anything given without a price
The squeaky wheel gets the grease
The complainer is more likely to get the attention they seek
Complainers will suffer consequences
Take care of your equipment
Two wrongs don't make a right
A harmful reaction won't solve harm
Two wrongs actually make a left
Three wrongs make it right as negatives cancel themselves out
When the going gets tough, the tough get going
Strong people work harder when face with adversity
Smart people leave when troubles arise
Strong people beat smart people
You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink
You make guide someone, but it doesn't mean they'll follow
People are stubborn, they don't accept advice
The truth is obvious
Where there's smoke, there's fire
Evidence of something wrong means there's likely something wrong going on
The early bird catches the worm, or else the bird will get taken over by the worm and become a kind of bird-zombie
What goes up must come down
Save your cash
When in Rome, do as the Romans do
Behave according to your setting and location
Just do as the instruction says
Rome wasn't built in a day
