Idiomatic Expressions

Question 1

A kick in the teeth

Answer 1

Not getting the promotion felt like a kick in the teeth

Question 2

Tether

Answer 2

Can smb help me as I am at the end of my tether over next door’s barking dog

Question 3

I went …….. on a limb for you, and this is how you thank me!

Answer 3

If you ‘go out on a limb for someone’ you put yourself in a disadvantaged position to support them.

Question 4

My husband just won’t be told. He’ll argue about something till he’s …. in the face.

Answer 4

To do something until you are ‘blue in the face’ means to do it for a long time.

Question 5

An old warehouse in Brighton has been given a new …….. of life as a youth centre following government funding

Answer 5

‘To give something a new lease of life’ means to improve something that was old or out of fashion.

Question 6

The athlete had been dropped from the team the previous year and clearly had an axe to ……… as she felt this had been totally unjustified.

Answer 6

If you ‘have an axe to grind’ you have a strong opinion about a subject which you express whenever you have the chance.