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Reading: Idioms Anchor Chart

Idioms Anchor Chart

Idioms
Idioms are nonliteral
phrases that mean
something different
from what they say.
bent out of shape
to be upset or angry
He was bent out of shape about
losing the card game.
heard it through
the grapevine
to hear gossip or rumours
I heard it through the grapevine
that you are getting married!

full of baloney not my cup of tea bigger fish to fry

to be full of lies, fibs, not interested in to have more important
or nonsense or interesting things to do

She was full of baloney, telling I love soccer, but basketball just I was going watch the game, but I
crazy stories that weren't true. isn't my cup of tea. had bigger fish to fry.

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know it like the under the weather don't cry over
back of my hand to feel ill or in low spirits spilled milk
to know something don't worry about
very well
• • •• something that
••• cannot be fixed
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• • I lost my favorite toy car, but
The national anthem? I know it She came down with a cold and there is no sense in crying over
like the back of my hand! was feeling under the weather. spilled milk.