Idioms

Question 0

To beat around the bush

Answer 0

To not tell the truth directly

Exp: Well, I am not going to beat around the bush here

Question 1

To let the cat out of the bag

Answer 1

To give away a secret

Exp: He let the cat out of the bag, and the surprise part wasn’t a surprise after all

Question 2

Salad days

Answer 2

A period of youth and inexperienced

Exp: A man who never lost the immature attitudes of his salad days

Question 3

Dead as a doornail

Answer 3

Dead, unusable

Exp: After the midnight, the town is dead as a doornail

Question 4

Knit your brows

Answer 4

To move your eyebrowns down

Exp: He knitted his brows in concentration

Question 5

Does it ring any bells?

Answer 5

If we trying to point out something very obviously we might say

Question 6

To vanish into thin air

Answer 6

To disappear without a trace

Exp: The bugger has vanished into thin air I can’t find him anywhere

Question 7

To not budge an inch

Answer 7

To refuse to move (physically or metaphorically)

Exp: I got on the bus the other day and asked a gentleman to move into window seat but he didn’t budge an inch, so I had to push past him and sit on the inside

Question 8

To be tongue tied

Answer 8

To be too shy or embarrassed to speak

Exp: When I see her I was totally tongue tied

Question 9

To be hoodwinked

Answer 9

To be deceive or tricked

Exp: In the last report the judge has been accused of being hoodwinked, after being found to have takena bribe from the defendant

Question 10

To be in a picke

Answer 10

To be in a troublesome situation

Exp: My car has broken and my phone has no battery so I am in a pickle

Question 11

Fair play

Answer 11

Doing something according to rules

Exp: To ensure fair play, I have sealed the answer in an envelope

Question 12

To laugh yourself into stitches

Answer 12

To laugh so hard your sides hurt

Exp: He is the funniest guys I’ve ever met. I laughed myself into stitches when he did an impression of our teacher

Question 13

To have seen better days

Answer 13

To better in the past than today

Exp: This pub has seen better days

Question 14

A foregone conclusion

Answer 14

A result that can be predicted with certainty

Exp: She asked me to go the latest romantic comedy with her. I told her I could tell her the story already. Boy meets girly, they fall in love, they fight and then get married. It’s a foregone conclusion

Question 15

The long and the short of something

Answer 15

An expression meaning to summarise in general

Exp: I am not go into much detail. The long and short of something is that I am going to have to take a pay cut

Question 16

Your own flesh and blood

Answer 16

People related to you by birth

Exp: You can borrow my car. You’re my own flesh and blood aren’t you? I wouldn’t lend it to a friend, but you are family

Question 17

To lie low

Answer 17

To keep quite and try not to be noticed

Exp: The police are looking for you. If I were you I would lie low fo a while

Question 18

Foul play

Answer 18

To cheat

Exp: I had to foul play him into leaving by telling him that I was going to see my family

Question 19

To be an eye sore

Answer 19

To be very ugly. Used for something or places not people

Exp: I think it is an eye sore. It destroys London’s skyline

Question 20

To be a laughing stock

Answer 20

Person or thing people laugh at and mock

Exp: I have never been such a laughing stock in my life

Question 21

I know next to nothing about it

I havent the faintest idea

Answer 21

I dont know

Question 22

What time do you make it?

Answer 22

What time is it in your watch?

Question 23

The butt of the joke

Make fun of you

Take the mickey out of you

Answer 23

The reason for or aim of joke

Exp: He was the butt of every joke told evening