Week 9 Bellringers
Idioms: Week 8
What is an idiom?
Here are some idioms and their real meanings:
Here are some idioms and their real meanings:
- Give it a shot - Try
- Speak your mind - Say what you really feel
- A piece of cake - Very easy
- Slipped my mind - I forgot
- Cross your fingers - For good luck
- Be in hot water - Be in trouble
- It cost an arm and a leg - It was expensive
- It’s in the bag - It’s a certainty
- Get cold feet - Be nervous
- A rip off - Too expensive
- Get a kick out of - Enjoy
- Read between the lines - Find the hidden meaning
- Have mixed feelings - Unsure how you feel
- Draw a blank - Can’t remember
- Have a change of heart - Changed your mind
- Be second to none - Be the best
- Get your act together - Behave properly
- Play it by ear - Improvise
- Have second thoughts - Have doubts
- A basket case - A crazy person
- Have a shot at - Have a chance
- Be in the same boat - Be in the same situation
- Out of the blue - With no warning
- A grey area - Something unclear
- Give someone the cold shoulder - Ignore someone
- I’m all ears - You have my undivided attention
- See eye to eye - Agree
- Call it a day - Time to quit
- The icing on the cake - Something additional that turns good into great
- Fish out of water - Being somewhere you don’t belong
- Kettle of fish - Something is completely different
- Get off your high horse - Quit thinking you are better than others
- Hold your horses - Wait a minute
- Horse of a different color - Something that is different
- Let the cat out of the bag - Tell a secret
- Curiosity killed the cat - Asking may get you in trouble
- Cat got your tongue? - Why aren’t you talking?
- Raining cats and dogs - It is raining very hard
- You can't teach an old dog new tricks - It’s harder for older people to learn new things
- Hot dog - A person doing athletic stunts that are dangerous
- Doggy bag - A bag to take home leftovers from a restaurant
- A little birdie told me - Someone told me a secret
- Bee in her bonnet - She is upset
- Goose is cooked - Now you’re in trouble
- For the birds - Something that is not worth anything
- Birdbrain - Someone who is not very smart
- But a bug in his ear - Make a suggestion
- A bull in a china shop - someone who is very clumsy
- Pig out - To eat a lot
- Wolf in sheep’s clothing - A person who pretends to be nice but is not
- Cry crocodile tears - To pretend to be upset
- Make a mountain out of a molehill - Make something that is not important into a big deal