Match the idiom with the meaning:
1. not get a word in edgeways
2. get to the point
3. talk at cross purposes
4. talk shop
5. not catch something
6. need a good talking to
7. run something by somebody
8. not make head or tail of
something
9. say the least
10. get the wrong end of
the stick
a) not understand each other
because of talking about
different subjects without
realizing this
b) not hear or understand what
someone says
c) not manage to say something
because another person is
talking a lot
d) to scold someone
e) reach the most important
part of something
f) repeat something the person
said
g) not to be able to understand
something at all
h) not understand a situation
correctly:
i) used to show that something
is worse or more serious
than you are actually saying
j) talk about work