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Idioms, can you guess their meanings? (Answers below)
- A penny for your thoughts
- Add insult to injury
- A hot potato
- Once in a blue moon
- Caught between two stools
- See eye to eye
- Hear it on the grapevine
- Miss the boat
- Kill two birds with one stone
- On the ball
- Cut corners
- To hear something straight from the horse's mouth
- Costs an arm and a leg
- The last straw
- Take what someone says with a pinch of salt
- Sit on the fence
- The best of both worlds
- Put wool over other people's eyes
- Feeling a bit under the weather
- Speak of the devil!
Meanings
- This idiom is used as a way of asking someone what they are thinking about.
- When people add insult to injury, they make a bad situation even worse.
- This idiom is used to speak of an issue (especially in current affairs) which many people are talking about.
- This is used when something happens very rarely.
- When someone finds it difficult to choose between two alternatives.
- This idiom is used to say that two (or more people) agree on something.
- This means ‘to hear a rumour' about something or someone.
- This idiom is used to say that someone missed his or her chance at something.
- This means ‘to do two things at the same time'.
- When someone understands the situation well.
- When something is done badly to save money. For example, when someone buys products that are cheap but not of good quality.
- To hear something from the authoritative source.
- When something is very expensive.
- The final problem in a series of problems.
- This means not to take what someone says too seriously. There is a big possibility that what he/she says is only partly true.
- This is used when someone does not want to choose or make a decision.
- All the advantages.
- This means to deceive someone into thinking well of them.
- Feeling slightly ill.
- This expression is used when the person you have just been talking about arrives.
