Learn Idioms #8

Question 1

of no avail

Answer 1

Of no use or advantage, ineffective

mem: avail means benefit

Question 2

leaps and bounds

Answer 2

Rapidly, or in fast progress..pretty direct

Question 3

out of thin air

Answer 3

from nothing, from nowhere

he vanished out of thin air

Question 4

a bolt from the blue

Answer 4

a sudden and unexpected event.

mem: out of the blue nu solluvom la, suddenly typez

Question 5

made my flesh creep

Answer 5

to make someone very worried or frightened..direct

Question 6

burnt his boats

Answer 6

you destroy all possible ways of going back to that situation …metaphor typez

Question 7

brought up

Answer 7

growing up, look after it until it is an adult

Question 8

cannot hold a candle

Answer 8

to not be as good as the person or thing mentioned.

one person or thing can’t hold a candle to another, you meant that the first person or thing is not nearly as good as the second

Question 9

cut no ice with me

Answer 9

have no influence or effect

Question 10

the green eyed monster

Answer 10

jealousy personified, jealousy imagined as a monster that attacks people