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WorksheetsUS Sports and other Idioms for IELTS (il7a u2)
Total questions: 29
Worksheet time: 15mins
A complete success
A home run
A touchdown
An own goal
A curveball
Something that will absolutely succeed
A touchdown
A slam dunk
A penalty
Force majeure
Something that is approximately correct
In the same league
On the same court
In the same ballpark
Stuck in the middle with you
To seriously mess up
To drop the ball
To hit a homerun
To touch wood
To score an own goal
To do something quite unexpected
To throw a curveball
To be out here kicking touchdowns
To give a ballpark figure
To razzle dazzle 'em
To be rescued at the last second ('in the nick of time')
To be saved by the bell
To hit a buzzer beater
To shoot from half-court
To hit a homerun
To give up; to surrender; to wave the white flag
To touch 'em all
To have all the salami
To eat the early worm
To throw in the towel
What would go here? "Let's ___________." (let's negotiate)
Play ball
Steal second base
Fifteen love
Have a hole-in-one
To lose when you should have won; to blow it
To choke
To quarterback
To slam the dunk
To throw in the towel
To try really hard in a risky way
To swing for the fences
To close your eyes and hope for the best
To throw a curve ball
To kick a touchdown
An unfair attack
Hitting below the belt
Blowing up their DMS
Hitting them up
Blowing them over
To feel like you're at the peak of your abilities (peak = highest point)
To be in your wheelhouse
To choke
To wave the white flag
To be a jabroni
Someone who wants to be in control without taking any responsibility
A Monday morning quarterback
A showboat
Someone who drops the People's Elbow
A backseat driver
Someone who attacked someone else's performance after the fact, when they didn't help or do anything themselves
A lazy critic
A Monday morning quarterback
A corked bat
A double doink
When you win at the last second/moment
A buzzer beater
A miracle blow
A bell-save
A five-alarm fire extinguisher
Someone who loves books and reading
A night owl
A bookworm
A lazy Susan
The goat
To feel sick
To feel under the weather
To smell a rat
To come from the horse's mouth
To throw someone under the bus
To make a mistake when you speak; to get tongue-tied
To talk in circles
To stumble over (your) words
To beat a dead horse
To beat around the bush
Something very rare (adj)
Once in a blue moon
Once upon a time
A wish upon a shooting star
Once in a yellow sun
A lie people tell to make other people feel nicer
A white lie
A black truth
A hidden dragon
Saying boo to a goose
Crouching tiger, hidden dragon
To look really messy (dirty face, hair unbrushed, food on your clothes, etc)
To look like something the cat dragged in
To look like a goose
To look like a green dragon
To look like a dog's dinner
To decline in quality; to go downhill
To go to the dogs
To wave the white flag
To beat around the bush
To do something out of the blue
To speak really fast
To talk at a mile a minute
To talk at light speed
To talk like a cheetah
To speak at 1.61 kilometres per minute
To be really hungry
So hungry you could eat a horse
So hungry you could eat a bird
Hungry enough to eat a bat
Hungry like a lion
To have more important things to do
To have bigger fish to fry
To have more chickens to fry
To have larger pots to fill
To have greater fry to boil
To be in good health; to feel healthy
To be as fit as a fiddle
To be as healthy as a violin
To be as strong as an ox
To be like a bull
To avoid talking about something important/awkward; to waste a lot of time talking before getting to the point
To beat a dead horse
To labour the point
To beat around the bush
To rat someone out
To keep talking about something that has already been decided or resolved; to waste time on something impossible
To beat a dead horse
To labour the point
To go around in circles
To drive someone up the wall
When you have a sore throat and your voice sounds rough and dry
To have a frog in your throat
To have a cat in your throat
To have a duck in your throat
