Unit 94: Idioms for everyday situations and feelings

Question 1

work like a dream

Answer 1

happen without problems, in the way that you had planned

Question 2

go/run like clockwork

Answer 2

go smoothly with no difficulties

Question 3

be up and running

Answer 3

begin to work as planned

Question 4

fall into place

Answer 4

on the point of starting to work well

Question 5

look up

Answer 5

look very positive

Question 6

Oh no! That’s all we need!

Answer 6

in response to news that makes current problems even worse

Question 7

That’s the last thing I wanted to hear!

Answer 7

in response to news that fulfills your worst fears

Question 8

This is like a bad dream!

Answer 8

when one bad thing after another happens in quick succession

Question 9

throw you completely

Answer 9

you don’t know how to respond

Question 10

a complete shambles

Answer 10

a totally disorganised and chaotic event

Question 11

It’s a mystery to sb

Answer 11

it’s sth they cannot understand

Question 12

get your wires crossed

We seem to have got our wires crossed. I thought you were coming on Tuesday.

Answer 12

become confused about what somebody has said to you so that you think they meant something else

Question 13

I’m not with you.|You’ve lost me there

Answer 13

what you have said has confused me

Question 14

be on the top of the world/on cloud nine/over the moon/in seventh heaven

Answer 14

be extremely happy

Question 15

to be in (your) element/ to be made for

Answer 15

be ideally suited for

Question 16

to be fed up to the back teeth

Answer 16

be extremely unhappy, disappointed

Question 17

be down in the dumps/down in the mouth

Answer 17

be depressed