Day 15 worksheet - Idioms
What are Idioms? Expression that improve the style of speaking, writing, whose meaning is much more than the literal meaning of all the words making it up:
1. A piece of cake: an easy job 2. At the eleventh hour: at the last minute
3. All ears: eager to hear something 4. Catch one’s eye: attract attention
5. Call it a day: end the day’s work 6. Down in the dumps: depressed, very sad
7. Hit the sack: go to sleep 8. Keep one’s fingers crossed: hope for the best
9. Live from hand to mouth: be very poor 10. Two-faced: deceitful
Use the idioms listed above to complete the following:
1. The new employee ______________of his boss due to his hard and smart work.
2. The poor man earned so little money that his family had to _______________
3. The students were not ready for the test so they started getting worried ________________
4. Though it was difficult to solve the problem, for the best student in the class it was ____________
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5. It is already ten o’ clock in the night and all of us are tired. So let’s go home and ____________.
6. Hearing the neighbours whispering to each other, the women of the colony were ______________
7. Everyone trusted the evidence of the innocent-looking man but he turned out to be ____________.
8. When he was told that he had failed in the examination, the student was _____________.
9. I have appeared for many job interviews; now I shall ________________ till I get a good job.
10. After coming back from a strenuous tour, all the members of the team ________________
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Answers:
Use the idioms listed above to complete the following:
1. The new employee caught the eye of his boss due to his hard and smart work.
2. The poor man earned so little money that his family had to live hand to mouth.
3. The students were not ready for the test so they started getting worried at the eleventh hour.
4. Though it was difficult to solve the problem, for the best student in the class it was a piece of cake.
5. It is already ten o’ clock in the night and all of us are tired. So let’s go home and hit the sack.
6. Hearing the neighbours whispering to each other, the women of the colony were all ears.
7. Everyone trusted the evidence of the innocent-looking man but he turned out to be two-faced.
8. When he was told that he had failed in the examination, the student was down in the dumps.
9. I have appeared for many job interviews; now I shall cross my fingers till I get a good job.
10. After coming back from a strenuous tour, all the members of the team called it a day.