Practice worksheet

IDIOMATIC PHRASES

1. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush

_____________________________________________________________

2. A blessing in disguise
_____________________________________________________________
3. A piece of cake – quite easy
_____________________________________________________________
4. A taste of your own medicine
_____________________________________________________________
5. Add fuel to the fire
_____________________________________________________________
6. Against the clock
_____________________________________________________________
7. An arm and a leg
_____________________________________________________________
8. At the drop of a hat
_____________________________________________________________
9. Back to square one
_____________________________________________________________
10.Barking up the wrong tree
_____________________________________________________________
11.Bite your tongue
_____________________________________________________________
12.Blue moon
_____________________________________________________________
13.Crack someone up
_____________________________________________________________
14.Cross your fingers
_____________________________________________________________
15.Cry over spilt milk
_____________________________________________________________
16.Cry wolf
_____________________________________________________________
17.Curiosity killed the cat
_____________________________________________________________
18.Cut to the chase
_____________________________________________________________
19.Dark horse
_____________________________________________________________
20.Don’t put all your eggs in one basket
_____________________________________________________________
21.Ethnic cleansing
_____________________________________________________________
22.Funny farm
_____________________________________________________________
23.Get over it
_____________________________________________________________
24.Go the extra mile
_____________________________________________________________
25.Great minds think alike
 _____________________________________________________________
26.Head over heels
_____________________________________________________________
27.Hit the hay
_____________________________________________________________
28.Hold your horses
_____________________________________________________________
29.In the nick of time
_____________________________________________________________
30.Keeping your chin up
_____________________________________________________________
31.Kick the bucket
_____________________________________________________________
32.Lend me your ear
_____________________________________________________________
33.Let the cat out of the bag
_____________________________________________________________
34.On the fence
_____________________________________________________________
35.On the same page
_____________________________________________________________
36.Over the top
_____________________________________________________________
37.Pulling your leg
_____________________________________________________________
38.Rain check
_____________________________________________________________
39.Saved by the bell
____________________________________________________________
40.Smell a rat
_____________________________________________________________
41.The ball is in your cat
_____________________________________________________________
42.The last straw
_____________________________________________________________
43.Tie the knot
_____________________________________________________________
44.Turn a blind eye
_____________________________________________________________
45.X marks the spot
_____________________________________________________________
46.Zero tolerance
_____________________________________________________________
47.Mind your p’s and q’s
_____________________________________________________________
48.Fair feather friend
_____________________________________________________________
49.Under weather
_____________________________________________________________
50.Cold feet
_____________________________________________________________