NAME: ______________________________________________Grade and Section: _______________ Date: __________

Quiz # 3

I.DIRECTIONS: Underline the idiomatic expression used in the given sentence.

1. Farmers work hard while the sun shines.

2. The wife was beaten black and blue because the husband was a drunkard.
3. Knowing his brother’s wrong doings, blood pours into his face.
4. After punishing the wrong person the judge was blue in the face.
5. The prisoners made an easy way out from the jail.
6. In good faith, Joan supporter her brother, Julius.
7. Mother felt a pain I the neck when he heard his daughter’s explanation.
8. She bent her knees for forgiveness.
9. Daniella accepted a dose of her own medicine.
10. Camilla took the law into his hands.

II. Give the correct meaning of the underlined idiomatic expression in each sentence. Choose your answer from the
given choices. Write your answer on the space provided.

1. The principal uses an iron hand to discipline the delinquent student. __________
2. Whenever her mother scolded her, she always makes faces. __________
3. If situations become difficult, we will always be your back up. __________
4. I must go on by hook or by crook. __________
5. Since our parent will never be forever with us, we must learn to stand on our own feet. _________
6. Ever since she came home pregnant without a husband, she became the talk of the town. _________

by any means strict way separate independent

popular subject support continue make an unpleasant expression

III. Choose the appropriate idiomatic expressions to be used in the following sentences. Write “ a piece of cake”, “odds
and ends”, “pros and cons” or “ups and down” in the blank provided.

1. The teacher asked us to talk about the ___________ of industrial development.

2. Do not worry about the problems you have in your business, you now there are always __________ in the
business.
3. The police found nothing special in the house of the criminal as he had taken all the important documents with
him leaving just ______________.
4. If you think that doing math problems ______________, just try it.