Idioms C

Question 0

Call it a day

Answer 0

To finish or stop doing something, especially to stop working

Question 1

Call a spade a spade

Answer 1

To speak plainly and directly

Question 2

Call someone’s bluff

Answer 2

To tell someone to do what they threaten because you believe they have no intention of doing it and you want to prove it

Question 3

Call the shots

Answer 3

To be in position of authority so that you can give orders and make decisions

Question 4

Chance your arm

Answer 4

To take a risk, especially something you have not experienced before

Question 5

Cheek by jowl

Answer 5

If people live or work cheek by jowl they live or work very close together

Question 6

Come to a bad end

Answer 6

To come to some misfortune, especially an unpleasant death

Question 7

Cost an arm and a leg

Answer 7

To cost a large amount of money

Question 8

Curiosity killed the cat

Answer 8

Used to tell someone not to ask questions about something that does not concern them

Question 9

Cut and dried

Answer 9

A decision or result that is cut and dried cannot now be changed

Question 10

Cut someone dead

Answer 10

To pretend that you have not seen someone you know, usually because you are angry, upset with them

Question 11

Cut someone off without a penny

Answer 11

To not leave any money, property in your will to someone(who was expecting to receive an inheritance)