Idioms 2

Question 1

and finally (used to introduce the last and often worst thing in a list)

Answer 1

and, to cap it all

Question 2

immediately and without thinking

Answer 2

at the drop of a hat

Question 3

to have less money than you should have

Answer 3

to be out of pocket

Question 4

unfair and cruel

Answer 4

below the belt

Question 5

to fit perfectly

Answer 5

to fit like a glove

Question 6

to be dismissed from your job

Answer 6

to get the boot

Question 7

to get angry about something

Answer 7

to get hot under the collar about something

Question 8

to have already achieved or done something

Answer 8

to get/have something under your belt

Question 9

to have a secret plan or idea

Answer 9

to have something up your sleeve

Question 10

it you were in somebody’s place

Answer 10

if you were in his/her shoes

Question 11

to work harder and start trying to improve your work

Answer 11

to pull your socks up

Question 12

to be the dominant partner of the two people involved

Answer 12

to wear the trousers (in that house)

Question 13

to be bruised everywhere

Answer 13

to be black and blue all over

Question 14

to look angrily and somebody

Answer 14

to give somebody a back look

Question 15

written or printed

Answer 15

in black and white

Question 16

the illegal buying and selling of goods or the illegal changing of money

Answer 16

the black market

Question 17

not very often

Answer 17

once in a blue moon

Question 18

suddenly and unexpectedly

Answer 18

out of the blue

Question 19

you can scream/argue as much as you like but I won’t change my mind

Answer 19

you can {verb} until you are blue in the face, but

Question 20

an area of countryside that surrounds a city and in which the construction of houses is strictly controlled

Answer 20

the green belt

Question 21

to give somebody permission to do something

Answer 21

to give somebody the green ligth

Question 22

to be very good at growing and looking after plants

Answer 22

to have green fingers/a green thumb

Question 23

to catch or discover somebody while they are in the middle of doing something wrong

Answer 23

to catch somebody red-handed

Question 24

an office job

Answer 24

white-collar job

Question 25

to lose all the colour in your face because you are very shocked or sick

Answer 25

to go as white as a sheet

Question 26

the telephone directory that contains the telephone numbers of local businesses and services

Answer 26

the yellow pages

Question 27

two yellow lines along the side of the road which mean no parking

Answer 27

a double yellow line

Question 28

to be a coward

Answer 28

to be yellow

Question 29

to become very angry or excited

Answer 29

to go bananas

Question 30

a person who supports a family with the money they earn

Answer 30

to be the breadwinner

Question 31

to be very pleasant to somebody because you want something from them

Answer 31

to butter somebody up

Question 32

very different from each other

Answer 32

as different as chalk and cheese

Question 33

I don’t particularly like something

Answer 33

something is not my cup of tea

Question 34

to ask somebody a lot of questions to make them confess to something

Answer 34

to grill somebody

Question 35

this room is very hot

Answer 35

it’s like an over in here

Question 36

very small

Answer 36

peanuts

Question 37

very easy to do

Answer 37

it’s a piece of cake

Question 38

to calm down, having been very angry

Answer 38

to simmer down

Question 39

not to believe that something is completely accurate or true

Answer 39

to take something with a pinch/grain of salt

Question 40

To attain the same level of achievement

Answer 40

To reach the heights of (somebody)

Question 41

“Do you mind if I listen to music while you work?”

Answer 41

Would you have any objection to my listening to music while you work?