Circle Idiomatic Expression in the texts below.

A. Kim walked to school each day. The school
was just a hop, skip and a jump from a house.
She always arrived to school at wee hours
because her mother taught her that the early
bird gets the worm. Once she was at school, Kim
enjoyed lend a helping hand to her teacher
before class. She would make sure that all the
lessons were in order for the day.
Kim loved school and always did her best in each
class. Her work was second to none. When the
teacher was talking, she was al, ears. In fact, she
as the apple of her teacher’s eye. Everyone liked
Kim, because she was a good friend as well. She
never gave another child a cold shoulder, even if
they didn’t see eye to eye on everything.
One day, out of the blue, Km’s teacher called her
to her desk. She told Kim that there would be a
very challenging test on the next day. She told
her to give it a shot, but that would be very
difficult. She said, “Do not be down in the mouth
if you didn’t get your usual 100!”
C. This is a story when I was young. One day
when school was over, I really, really needed to go
to the bathroom. I would have asked the school bus
driver, but it was too late. I realized that I was in
hot water on the way home. My house was still so
far away. I went all out trying to control my
bladder. I tried to catch forty winks, but of course
it didn’t work. I shouted a little each time the bus
shook. Some other students looked at me like I had
a screw loose.
I came clean and asked him to go faster. He thought
for a moment, but the bottom line was, “Sorry...the
safety of all children comes first. I cannot drive
faster for you.”
Finally, I arrived at home and ran to the bathroom!
After that day, I made sure to go to the bathroom
before riding the school bus. I would never make
this mistake again.

The next day, Kim took her test. She did her best
and blew that test out of the water. Kim was
walking on air when she went home that day.

B. In my daily life, there are many kinds of

people, but my boss, John is a really special and
incredible person. He is totally a good egg.
Although he is a company big shot, he doesn’t
abuse his power. On the contrary, he often lets us
have a ball during the workday. He never leaves
important decisions up in the air, the greatest
reason that I admire him is that he leaves no stone
unturned in his work. Although there are lots of
challenges, he faces them all and never gives up.
All in all, his work ethic has really caught my eye.