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Total questions: 61

Worksheet time: 30mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Call the shots

a)

To avoid or delay dealing with a problem

b)

A great big lie

c)

Make the important decisions in an organization

2.

Keep your head above water

a)

Just be able to manage, espeacially when y have financial difficulties

b)

Decline, get worse

c)

Be not brave easily frightened

3.

The elephant in the room

a)

Someth never happens

b)

A major problem that no one is talking about

c)

Very expensive

d)

Have a good time

4.

Put the cat among the pigeons

a)

Say or do someth that cause trouble or controversy

b)

Decline, get worse

c)

Have good time

d)

Take on a difficult or impossible task

5.

Trial balloon

a)

A great bìg lie

b)

Vote against someone

c)

Be bored

d)

A test of someone or the public reaction

6.

Loaded for bear

a)

Be well-prepared for challenge

b)

Piece of misinfor

c)

Vote against someone

d)

Be hahppy

7.

Take the bull by the horns

a)

To do someth difficult in a brave and determined way

b)

Still to be settled

c)

Refuse to back down

d)

A great big lie

8.

Be tickled pink

a)

Be bored

b)

Be excited

c)

Be very happy, pleased and amused

9.

Red herring

a)

Piece of misinfor

b)

Be well-prepared for challenge

c)

Someone favorite

10.

Selling point

a)

An attractive feature of somth for sale

b)

Vote against someone

c)

Be bored

d)

Still to be settled

11.

Blackball

a)

Vote against someone

b)

To offer a sign or signal indicating potential

c)

Short clearly way

12.

Kick the can down the road

a)

An official in the final period of office

b)

To avoid or delay dealing with a problem

c)

Talk the important thing

13.

A lame duck

a)

An official in the final period of office

b)

To be very happy bcause someone has sth y want

c)

Not understanding something

14.

Green with envy

a)

To very unhappy bcause someone has someth you want

b)

Exactly acrording to rules or the law

c)

Have someth done

d)

Short

15.

Grey area

a)

To show your anger about something especially by shouting or complaining very loudly

b)

A situation that is not clear or where the rules are not known

c)

An official in the final period of office

16.

Grey matter

a)

The darker tissue containing nerve fibres found in the brain

b)

To offer a sign or signal indicating potential

17.

Up in the air

a)

Still to be settled, unresolved

b)

Be bored

18.

Be yellow-bellied

a)

Be not brave easily frightened

b)

A person who lends money with high rates of interest

c)

Unexpectedly

19.

Lâm and i agree most of thing. We seem to be

(a)  

20.

A lot happen while you were on holiday. Let me

a)

Talk a cross purpose

b)

Put you in the picture

c)

Keep y in the loop

21.

The world is your oyster

a)

No limit to the good opportunity

b)

Very expensive

c)

Very cheap

22.

Head go south

a)

Be better

b)

Decline, get worse

c)

Be awful

23.

Take a cross purpose

a)

Not understand someone

b)

Delay someth

c)

Talk clearly and short

24.

To beat about the bush

a)

Delay talk about someth

b)

Delay to do someth

c)

Try to talk with someone who don't care you.

25.

To get the wrong end of the stick

a)

Not understand someth

b)

Not like someth

c)

Not happy about someth

26.

To get it straight from the horse's mouth

a)

To be tell someth by a person who have knowledge about this

b)

Have a great idea

27.

To be like talking to a brick wall

a)

Talk with someone who like talk to you too

b)

Try to talk with someone who do not care

c)

Try to make someth as soon as possible

28.

Raise the red flags

a)

To offer a sign or a signal indicating potential

b)

Be bored

c)

Be brave and well prepared

29.

Off the hook

a)

Trốn Thoát trach nhiệm

b)

Đảm đương trách nhiệm

c)

Pass trach nhiệm cho một ng khác

30.

Caught the red-handed

a)

See someone doing someth wrong or illegal

b)

Very competitive

c)

Be bored

31.

Blue-eyed boy

a)

Someone's favorite

b)

Very beautiful

c)

Very expensive

32.

Keep me in the loop

a)

Bắt ai đó làm gì đó

b)

Bắt ai đó tham gia một group nào đó

c)

Bắt ai đó hoàn thành việc gì đó trong khoảng thời gian gấp rút

33.

Hear it on the grapvine

a)

Nghe ch gì từ ai đó kể lại

b)

Nói tóm lại là

c)

Trì hoãn nói gì đó

d)

Trì hoãn làm gì đó

34.

Crunch time

a)

A period of high pressure when one has to work hard to finish someth

b)

Unexpectedly

c)

The latest problem in a series of problem that makes a stituation impossible to accept

35.

The last straw

a)

Be not brave easily frightened

b)

Just be able to manage

c)

Be bored

d)

The latest problem in a series of problem that makes s stituation impossible to accept

36.

Get your ducks in a row

a)

Be well-organized

b)

Very rarely

c)

Someth never happens

d)

No limited

37.

Once in a blue moon

a)

Very expensive

b)

Very cheap

c)

On sale

d)

Very rarely

38.

Cost someone a pretty penny

a)

Very mắc

b)

Rẻ

c)

Giá ok

39.

Paint the town red

a)

Have a good time

b)

Have a terrible period

c)

Be bankrupt

40.

Bell the cat

a)

Very competitive

b)

Take on a difficult or impossible task

c)

Be bored or fed up with someth

41.

Dog eat dog

a)

Very competitive

b)

Very happy

c)

Kkk câu này dễ quá. 🤣

42.

Câu chuyện của chú cá :v

A fish story

a)

A great Big lie

b)

Not a lie

c)

Someth never happens

43.

Stand one's ground

a)

Refuse to back down insist on one's position

b)

Be happy ;)

c)

To do someth difficult in a brave and determined way

44.

Raise red flags

a)

An official in the final period of office

b)

To offer a sign or signal indicating potential

c)

To avoid or delay dealing with a problem

45.

Green with envy

a)

To very unhappy because someone has someth you want

b)

To avoid or delay do someth

c)

Be happy

46.

To get straight to the point

( ghi nghĩa tiếng anh)

(a)  

47.

Scream blue murder

a)

The darker tissue containing nerve fibres found in the brain

b)

A situation that is not clear or where the rules are not known

c)

To show your anger about someth especially by shouting or comlaining very loudly

48.

To put it in a nutshell

a)

Nói tóm lại là

b)

Nói vòng vo

c)

Ko hiểu gì hết

49.

Cant make head nor tail of it

(a)  

50.

To get the wrong end of the stick

(a)  

51.

I think we are (a)   i mean next week, not this week

52.

This document from our subsidiary makes no sense at all. I (a)  

53.

I...that he has been fired. Is it true?

a)

Get the wrong end of the stick

b)

Hear it on the grapevine

c)

Talk at cross purpose

54.

Ok. I will ....i'm afraid it is the last time we are going to miss a deadline

a)

Get the straight to the point

b)

Be on the same wavelength

c)

Beat about the bush

55.

He never gives me a straight answer. He is always...

(a)  

56.

To keep someone in the loop .mean

a)

To include someone in group communication

b)

To not understand someone

c)

To try to communicate with an unresponsive person

57.

The new organogram is very complicated, but to ...., we still report to the same manager.

a)

be the same wavelength

b)

Put it in a nutshell

c)

Put you in the picture

d)

Beat about the bush

58.

To get it straight from the horse's mouth

a)

To be told someth by someone who has direct knowledge of it

b)

To talk about the most important thing

c)

To share similar opinions and idea

59.

I' ve tried to get my supplier to give us a discount several times, but they just won't. It's like....

a)

Get the wrong end of the stick

b)

Keep someone in the loop

c)

Be like talking to a brick wall

60.

The company is going to bankrupt. The ceo told me himself. I heard it....

a)

Get straight from the horse's mouth

b)

Beat about the bush

c)

Talk at cross purpose

d)

Be like talking to a brick wall

61.

The elephant in the room

a)

Someth never happens

b)

A major problem that no one is talking about

c)

Very expensive

d)

Have a good time