What’s the biggest obstacle in your journey of
exploring English? It could be grammar, pronunciation, or huge amount of
vocabulary that seems to be endless. Above all, idiomatic expressions that have
hidden, figurative meanings. Without understanding the cultural background or
conventional usage of idioms, one can hardly imagine what those words are
supposed to mean.
Using the given list of idioms and your imagination,
try to choose a proper expression to fill in the blank of each sentence below.
a. make a mountain out of a molehill
b. pig out on (food)
c. hold one’s horses
d. draw a blank
e. (something) slip one’s mind
f. It’s in the bag.
g. give someone the cold shoulder
h. get a kick out of
i. get off one’s high horse
j. to feel like a fish out of water
1.
My boss normally enjoys golfing on
weekends. Yes, golfing is the only sports that he
______________________________________________ in his ife.
2.
Tom ________________________ on the whole
bag of potato chips whenever he’s stressed out.
3.
Do you think Melinda is ready to launch her
new online business? I personally think she will make it! it’s
_____________________________________ .
4.
Hey, Josh, please get _____________________________________! Nobody
will be your friend if you keep that stuck-up attitude!
5.
Phil, you just made one tinny-tiny mistake
on the test, and it’s not the end of the world. Don’t
____________________________________________________ like that, please!
6.
Mary’s father gave his 15 year-old
daughter’s new boyfriend the ___________________________________ because he
thought she was too young to have a boyfriend.
7.
I told Jack to
__________________________________ when he became badly mad while driving as
the road hog kept changing his lanes so fast without giving signals.
8.
Kirstin felt like a
_______________________________________, because she was the only Asian in the
church of African Americans.
9.
I felt so awkward drawing
_________________________________ at the
high school reunion, because I wasn’t able to remember quite a lot of friends
there.
10.
So terribly sorry that I forgot about your
birthday, Patty! It totally _____________________________________________.
Clues
to make a mountain out of a molehill: (verb) to make something that is not important
into a big deal
to pig out:
(verb) to eat/ devour a lot
to hold one’s horses:
(verb) to wait a minute
to draw a blank:
(verb) cannot remember (or fail in doing something)
(something) to slip one’s mind:
(verb) to forget
It’s in the bag.:
(sentence) It’s a certainty.
to give someone the cold shoulder:
(verb) to ignore someone deliberately/ to treat someone in an unfriendly way
to get a kick out of something: (verb)
to find something interesting and funny, to be amused by something/ to find
pleasure in something
to get off one’s high horse:
(verb) to quit thinking that you are better than others/ to stop behaving in a
superior manner
to feel like a fish out of water :
(verb) being somewhere you don’t belong
Answer Keys
1.
h. gets a kick out of
2.
b. pigs out
3.
f. in the bag
4.
i. get off your high horse
5.
a. make a mountain out of a molehill
6.
g. the cold shoulder
7.
c. hold his horses
8.
j. a fish out of water
9.
d. a blank
10. e. slipped my mind
10. e. slipped my mind
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