Idioms

Learning Competency:
EN7V-I-c-10.2: Use appropriate idiomatic expressions in a variety of basic interpersonal
communicative situations

An idiom is a phrase that has a different meaning than the literal meaning of the phrase. The
meaning of an idiom in the mother tongue and culture has a completely different meaning than the
literal definition of the phrase.

Your Task
Idioms in Conversation
DIRECTIONS: Read the following idioms and their meanings. Use each idiom in a sentence. Then
identify to whom you will say it and in what situation.

1. grab a seat (sit down)

2. zip it (stop talking)
3. at your earliest convenience (as soon as possible)
4. look up to (admire)
5. on cloud nine (very happy)
6. on the ball (alert)
7. a piece of cake (very easy)
8. in a nutshell (as briefly as possible)
9. once in a blue moon (rarely)
10. an act of God (a natural and unavoidable event that results in great loss)

Sentence with Idiom Person/s spoken to Situation