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Handout 3. Common Idiomatic Expressions & Their Meanings
1. She was tickled pink by the good news.Made very happy

2. You were hands down the best player on the team.There was no competition

3. I've been feeling pretty down in the dumps lately.Sad or depressed

4. I'm feeling sick as a dog!Very sick

5. I've been feeling under the weather.Not well

6. Rise and shine!Wake up and be happy!

7. Close, but no cigar.You were very close, but you did not make it.

8. I could play outside till the cows come home.For a very long time

9. Wow! It's raining cats and dogs out there!Very hard rain

10. That sound is driving me up the wall!Making me very annoyed

11. This assignment is a piece of cake.Very easy

12. Although he broke the rules, he was only given a slap on the wrist.A mild punishment

13. Yikes! This shirt costs an arm and a leg.It is extremely expensive.

14. No, I was just pulling your leg.Just joking

15. It's Greek to me!I don't understand.

16. Keep your chin up.Be happy.

17. Hold your horses.Be patient.

18. We're all in the same boat.All of us are in the same position.

19. He's a bit of a loose cannon.Unpredictable

20. I will clean my room when pigs fly.Never

Activity 1. Identify the idioms. Underline the idioms and idiomatic expressions in the following sentences and explain their meaning:

1. I'm feeling a bit under the weather this morning.

2. We arrived in the nick of time.

3. I know London like the back of my hand.

4. Do you think you could pull a few strings for me?

5. I couldn't get a word in edgeways.

6. I'm fed up with the rat race.

7. My father thought I would follow in his footsteps.

8. Hurry up! You're cutting it a bit fine, aren't you?

9. Let's look on the bright side, shall we?

10. Come on. we can't just sweep this under the carpet.

Answers: 1. feeling a bit under the weather (feeling sick or ill).2. in the nick of time (just in tilme). 3. know smth or smb. likethe back of my hand (know extremely well), 4. pull a few strings (help by talking to powerful people), 5. get a word in edgeways (to not be able to say anything because someone else is talking all the time), 6. the rat race (a way of life in which people are caught up in a fiercely competitive struggle for wealth or power),7. follow in his footsteps (to do the same job or the same things in life as someone else), 8. cutting it a bitfine (manage to do something- at the very last mome)9. look on the bright side (be optimistic or cheerful in spite of difficulties), 10. sweep thisunder the carpet (conceal or hide).