Year 5 Literacy

  1. "You're wasting your time doing that!" Choose beating around the bush hitting the nail on the head flogging a dead horse fighting tooth and nail Leave checkbox empty

  2. Younger people often think of older people as: Choose out of the frying pan and into the fire out of the woods over the hill still wet behind the ears Leave checkbox empty

  3. When you're in trouble with someone, you would be: Choose out on a limb high and dry in the dog house off the hook Leave checkbox empty

  4. To keep a secret or not to tell anyone you would: Choose keep it under your hat be in over your head shed some light on it be out on a limb Leave checkbox empty

  5. If you were really angry about something, you might: Choose be on your high horse hit the ceiling be barking up the wrong tree jump the gun Leave checkbox empty

  6. Celebrate or have a good time: Choose paint the town red pass the buck blow your top kick the bucket Leave checkbox empty

  7. To confess to doing something wrong: Choose make a clean breast of it put your nose to the grindstone keep a stiff upper lip put your foot in your mouth (Leave checkbox empty)

  8. To be a spoilsport: Choose a wet blanket a klutz an eager beaver down in the dumps Leave checkbox empty

  9. To make a problem seem bigger than it really is: Choose be under the weather live from hand to mouth make a mountain out of a mole hill have your hands full Leave checkbox empty

10. To be extinct: Choose swan song free as a bird proud as a peacock dead as a dodo Leave checkbox empty

You can find more idioms on these websites:
http://www.eslcafe.com/idioms/id-list.html
http://www.vtaide.com/anidioms_list.htm

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