IDIOMS AND PHRASES
I. Pick out
the correct idiom from the choices given in the bracket.
a. After
working for the whole day ,the farmer decided to ( hit the hay / beat around
the bush ).
b. After
being bullied for days together, the little boy decided to ( rub it in / put
his foot down ).
c. Ruby
was (running out of steam / beating a
dead horse ) when she ran for half a mile.
d. Latika
has a (heart of stone / heart of ruby).
e. The
servant obeys his master’s command (at the drop of a hat / against the clock ).
f. There’s
no point ( beating around the bush / dropping
like flies ).
g. The
story of Dhirubhai Ambani is (from
riches to rags / rags to riches ).
h. Roxy
was ( on pins and needles / on ferns and petals ) when he went for his examinations.
i.
Susan ( smelt the rat / smelt the mice )
when the friends gathered at her birthday bash .
j.
After the disastrous earthquake the
people of Japan had to (start from scratch / end from scratch ).
II. Make
sentences of the given idioms and phrases.
a. Smell
something fishy : ______________________________________________________________
b. Practice
makes a man perfect : _______________________________________________________________
c. Icing
on the cake : _______________________________________________________________
d. A
penny saved is a penny earned : _______________________________________________________________
e. Dropping like flies :
________________________________________________________________
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