Idioms

Question 1

Gotta walk and chew gum

Answer 1

To have to wait and see

Question 2

By the skin of (my/your/his/her) teeth

Answer 2

Just barely

Question 3

Drive up the wall

Answer 3

To irritate

Question 4

Going Dutch

Answer 4

When each person, usually in a dating scenario, pays for his/her own meal.

Question 5

Tea-bagging

Answer 5

To put or pretend to put your balls into someone’s mouth

Question 6

Jack up

Answer 6

An abrupt increase, typically in the price of something

Question 7

to knock someone

Answer 7

To speak negatively, to disparage, to badmouth

Question 8

Pass the buck

Answer 8

To deflect responsibility onto someone else

Question 9

to pig out

Answer 9

A metaphor for binge eating

Question 10

to plead the fifth

Answer 10

References the fifth amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which allows a witness in court to refuse questions on the grounds that they risk self-incrimination

Question 11

bought the farm

Answer 11

sudden, untimely death (WW II reference)

Question 12

jonesing

Answer 12

to want, crave, or desire something intensely, and its noun form, ‘joneser,’ (a person who wants or craves something intensely)

Question 13

to take a raincheck

Answer 13

commonly used as a metaphor for postponing or rescheduling a meeting between people to some later date that is more convenient

Question 14

to shoot the breeze

Answer 14

an idiomatic phrase for killing time with idle chit-chat

Question 15

Monday morning quarterback

Answer 15

references the practice of criticizing something after-fact-with the advantage of hindsight

Question 16

to open a can of whoopass (on someone)

Answer 16

to commit violence, or to celebrate intensely (usually with alcohol)

Question 17

That bow tied itself

Answer 17

That took care of itself (bow tie referencing dying, metaphorically)