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Activity 2. Choose the equivalent or near-equivalent sentences.

1. You did it. You have to face the music.

2. Yes. You hit the nail on the head.

3. You two don't see eye to eye.

4. You have to learn it by heart.

5. You are an old hand at teaching.

6. That's great! You keep everything under your thumb.

7. You don't want to stick your neck out, do you?

a. You have to memorize it.

b. You're experienced.

c. You have control of the situation.

d. You don't want to take the risk.

e. You have to accept the consequences of you actions.

f. You don't agree with each other.

g. You're absolutely right.

Answers: 1.e, 2.g, 3.f, 4.a, 5.b, 6.c, 7.a
Activity 3. Choose the right answer using the following words:

blind, busy, clear, cunning, fresh, light, old, quiet, slippery, stubborn

1. As ___ as a bat.

2. As ___ as a bee.

3. As ___ as a bell.

4. As ___ as a daisy.

5. As ___ as an eel.

6.As ___ as a feather.

7. As ___ as a fox.

8.As ___ as the hills.

9. As ___ as a mouse.

10. As ___ as a mule

Answers: blind, busy, clear, flesh, slippery, light, cunning, old, quiet, stubborn.
Activity 4. Try to change idioms to plain English
1. He was all ears when his boss talked.

2. He is a chip off the old block.

3. He is thick in the head.

4. The bank robbers were armed to the teeth.

5. His comments threw a wet blanket on the discussion.

6. They were beat after three days of hard work.

7. Jack was hard up to pay his rent.

8. The storm left them all in the same boat.

9. The house fire meant we had to start from scratch.

Answers: 1. listening carefully, 2. like his father. 3. stupid 4. heavily armed 5. discouraged

6. exhausted 7. had no money 8. all in the same situation 9. the beginning

Activity 5. Read the sentences and try to guess the meaning of the underlined idiomatic expressions.
1. Wow! It's raining cats and dogs today! I wish I'd brought my umbrella to school!

a. I forgot my umbrella today.

b. It's raining heavily.

c. Cats and dogs are falling from the sky.

2. When I told my mom I would be home around 2 am, she had a cow!

a. My mom bought a baby cow.

b. My mom is really strange.

c. My mom was really upset.

3. Jean: How did you know it was my birthday today?

Susan: Oh, a little birdie told me!

a. Jean told Susan it was her birthday.

b. An unnamed person told Susan about Jean's birthday.

c. Susan told Jean it was her birthday.

4. Frank: Why didn't your brother ride the roller coaster with us?

Sam: Oh, he's such a scaredy cat! He won't get on any fast ride.

a. Sam's brother is afraid to ride the roller coaster.

b. Sam's brother is a cat.

c. Sam's brother didn't go to the roller coaster.

5. When the telephone salesman told me I could buy some concert tickets for only $10.00 if I gave him my credit card number, it seemed a little fishy to me, so I hung up the phone.

a. I thought the telephone salesman smelled like a fish and I didn't like that.

b. I thought the phone salesman was a dangerous fish and he scared me.

c. I thought the phone salesman was dishonest and I felt suspicious of him.

6. I never learned how to use a computer, so I lost my job to a new employee. It's a dog-eat-dog world.

a. Only the strong or the best survive.

b. Dogs are eating dogs at the office.

c. Dogs like to eat dogs for lunch.

Answers: 1.b, 2.c, 3.b, 4.a, 5.c, 6.a
Lesson 21. A wide range of idiomatic colloquialisms

Module:	Vocabulary
Topic:	A wide range of idiomatic colloquialisms
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