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Idioms

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What does Break a Leg mean

a)

Goodluck

b)

Fall and break your leg

c)

Break someone's leg

d)

Break a table leg

2.

Sally always ________her favorite actress's book.

a)

Borrows a word out of

b)

Borrows a page out of

c)

takes a leaf out of

d)

Follows

3.

After going to the zoo, the mall, and the movies, Cassie was sick of bending over backwards to entertain her nieces.

a)

Cassie was doing very little to entertain her nieces.

b)

Cassie was making small efforts to entertain her nieces.

c)

Cassie was trying very hard to entertain her nieces.

d)

Cassie was not trying at all to entertain her nieces.

4.

8. Mrs. Robinson expects Cassie and my presentation to be good, but we have been working on it every night for the last week, so we are really going to knock her socks off.

a)

a. Cassie and the speaker are not prepared to give a good presentation.

b)

b. Cassie and the speaker intend on hitting Mrs. Robinson rather than presenting.

c)

c. Cassie and the speaker’s presentation will far exceed Mrs. Robinson’s expectations.

d)

d. Cassie and the speaker’s presentation will meet Mrs. Robison’s expectations.

5.

They are in hot water.

a)

They are in trouble.

b)

They are burning up in water.

c)

They are in the desert.

6.

10. Jose had a hard time comparing the iPhone to the Samsung phone because to him they were apples and oranges.

a)

a. Jose can hardly tell the difference between the two phones because they are so similar.

b)

b. Jose believes that the phones are so different from one another that they cannot be compared.

c)

c. Jose doesn’t know anything about phones so he may as well be thinking about fruits.

d)

d. Jose is too hungry to think about phones at this time.

7.

7. Vivian expected Craig to sob uncontrollably when she broke up with him; however, Craig kept a stiff upper lip.

a)

a. Craig cried even more than Vivian had expected.

b)

b. Craig cried about as much as Vivian had expected.

c)

c. Craig cried a little less than Vivian had expected.

d)

d. Craig did not cry.

8.

Mom and I were running against the clock.

What does the underlined phrase mean?

a)

Running on a clock

b)

Fighting a clock

c)

Rushed and short on time

9.

What does it's raining cats and dogs mean

a)

Its raining hard

b)

Cats and dogs are falling out of the sky

c)

Its snowing heavily

d)

Its very windy

10.

What does this idiom mean

Were stuck in a pickle

a)

We have a problem

b)

We are stuck between two things

c)

We are in a difficult situation

d)

We are in a pickle