Metaphors cycle 3

Question 1

The truth (as indiscreetly revealed)

Answer 1

Out of the mouths of babes

Question 2

To be excessively naive

Answer 2

To the babes in the wood

Question 3

To be left with an unwanted responsibility

Answer 3

To be left holding the baby

Question 4

To discard a major benefit in the course of obtaining a small advantage

Answer 4

To throw out the baby with the bathwater

Question 5

Someone who wants to exercise control

Answer 5

A backseat driver

Question 6

A very generous person

Answer 6

So-and-so would give the shirt off his back

Question 7

Exceedingly difficult

Answer 7

Back-breaking

Question 8

In a way which deliberately conceals the thrust from someone

Answer 8

Behind someone’s back

Question 9

1- It was stolen 2-It was leaked to me (information)

Answer 9

It fell off the back of a truck

Question 10

Not a priority at the moment

Answer 10

Something is on the back burner

Question 11

(La goutte qui fait déborder le vase)

Answer 11

The straw which broke the camel’s back

Question 12

1- secretly or unofficially 2-Through lack of opposition

Answer 12

Through the back door

Question 13

To have a faith and give support to a project which proves or will prove to be unsuccessful

Answer 13

To back the wrong horse

Question 14

To put someone in a position from which escape is difficult

Answer 14

To back someone into a corner

Question 15

To have to start all over again

Answer 15

to be back to scratch

Question 16

To be completely rejected or to leave someone cold

Answer 16

to be like water off a duck’s back

Question 17

To criticize each other in an unfriendly manner

Answer 17

To engage in back biting

Question 18

To know more of what is going on than what people think

Answer 18

To have eyes at the back of one’s head

Question 19

Immodestly to congratulate oneself

Answer 19

To pat oneself on the back

Question 20

To repair something

Answer 20

To put something back in its feet

Question 21

To go back in time, to have another opportunity at something thought lost

Answer 21

To turn back the clock

Question 22

Chief strength or character

Answer 22

Backbone

Question 23

To be counterproductive, to have the opposite effect than what was hoped

Answer 23

To backfire

Question 24

To go to great trouble to accommodate another person’s wishes

Answer 24

To bend over backward to do something

Question 25

To move farther away from a goal

Answer 25

To take a step backward

Question 26

To criticize each other in an unfriendly manner

Answer 26

To engage in back biting

Question 27

To know more of what is going on than what people think

Answer 27

To have eyes at the back of one’s head

Question 28

Immodestly to congratulate oneself

Answer 28

To pat oneself on the back

Question 29

To repair something

Answer 29

To put something back in its feet

Question 30

To go back in time, to have another opportunity at something thought lost

Answer 30

To turn back the clock

Question 31

Chief strength or character

Answer 31

Backbone

Question 32

To be counterproductive, to have the opposite effect than what was hoped

Answer 32

To backfire

Question 33

To go to great trouble to accommodate another person’s wishes

Answer 33

To bend over backward to do something

Question 34

To move farther away from a goal

Answer 34

To take a step backward