Idioms

Question 1

Be driving at

Answer 1

Trying to say/suggest

Question 2

Be descended FROM

Answer 2

To de a descendant of

Question 3

Be comfortably off

Answer 3

Have enough money to live in comfort

Question 4

Be gasping for

Answer 4

To want (something) very much

Question 5

Be getting on (not “along”)

Answer 5

To be old

Question 6

At fever pitch

Answer 6

At a level of great excitement

Question 7

At first hand

Answer 7

Obtained directly

Question 8

At fault

Answer 8

Wrong or to blame

Question 9

At face value

Answer 9

Al pie de la letra or if

TAKEN AT VALUE —> w/out studying it further…accepting it

Question 10

Tunnel

Vision

Answer 10

( dissaprove of someone who is) Concentrating completely on achieving a particular aim

Question 11

Sink or swim

Answer 11

You succeed or fail completely by your own efforts. Also, to fail if you don’t work hard enough

Question 12

To be etched on/in sb memory

Answer 12

Something you will continue to remember

Question 13

Be floored

Answer 13

Completely surprised/shocked

Question 14

Convulsed with laughter/rage

Answer 14

To laugh or rage without you controlling it (uncontrollably)

Question 15

Be first passed the post

Answer 15

To win

Question 16

At ease

Answer 16

Free from anxiety or embarrassment

Question 17

At death’s door

Answer 17

On the point of dying

Question 18

At cross-purposes

Answer 18

Two people confused about what they are saying or doing because if A misunderstanding

Question 19

Add close quarters

Answer 19

Close to(gether)

Question 20

A/that sinking feeling

Answer 20

Feeling something bad is happening or will happen

Question 21

Be sunk

Answer 21

To have failed

Question 22

Draw sb into sth

Answer 22

Make someone become involved in a difficult/unpleasant situation

Question 23

(Right) down to

Answer 23

Even including small unimportant things or people

Question 24

Build sth in/into sth

Answer 24

Include some thing as part of a plant system or arrangement