Directions:
- Look up the idiom you were assigned at and write the definition.
- Use your idiom in a sentence.
- Draw a picture to illustrate your idiom.
- For a 4, explain the origin of your idiom.
- Between a rock and a hard place
It’s a tough choice between getting to the big game on time or waiting for Mr. Smith to call. I’m stuck between a rock and a hard place.
- Beating around the bush
Stop beating around the bush. Whom are you taking to the dance?
- Birds of a feather flock together
Everyone at that table plays soccer. I guess that birds of a feather flock together.
- Bite off more than you can chew
You can’t captain the team, edit the paper and star in the play. Don’t bite off more than you can chew.
- Bite the hand that feeds you
Eve just insulted the girl who is teaching her to ice-skate. That’s’ biting the hand that feeds you.
- Can’t see the forest for the trees
My teacher catches all my grammar mistakes, but he misses my brilliant writing. He can’t see the forest for the trees.
- Can’t hold a candle to
Aliyah can’t hold a candle to John when it comes to tap dancing.
- Cast the first stone
Don’t’ criticize, you’ve done it yourself so you shouldn’t cast the first stone.
- Cat got your tongue
Why don’t you answer me? Cat got your tongue?
- Catch you later
I’ve got to get right home to babysit my little sister. I’ll catch you later.
- Chew someone out
When Lori’s parents saw her report card, they really chewed her out.
- Chip on your shoulder
Avoid Calvin today. He has a real chip on his shoulder.
- Clam up
- Chip off the old block
- Clip your wings
- Climb the walls
- Come apart at the seams
- Cool as a cucumber
- Cost an arm and a leg
- Crocodile tears
- Cross that bridge when you come to it
- Cry wolf
- Cut off your nose to spite your face
- Cry over spilled milk
- Don’t count your chickens before they hatch
- Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth
- Dot your I’s and cross your T’s
- Down the drain
- Down to earth
- Down to the wire
- Draw the line at
- Dressed to the nines
- Drive a hard bargain
- Early bird catches the worm
- Easy as pie
- Easy come easy go
- Eat crow
- Eat you out of house and home
- Eat your heart out
- Egg on your face
- Every cloud has a silver lining
- Everything but the kitchen sink
- Face the music
- Fair weather friend
- Fat cat
- Feather in your cap
- Field day
- Fish out of water
- Flash in the pan
- Fly by night
- Fly by the seat of your pants
- Fly off the handle
- Fly the coop
- Food for thought
- Footloose and fancy free
- Full of hot air
- Get a kick out of something
- Get into the swing of things
- Get something off your chest
- Get to the bottom of something
- Get under your skin
- Get up on the wrong side of the bed
- Get your goat
- Give someone the shirt off your back
- Go bananas
- Go for broke
- Grasp at straws
- Green thumb
- Handle with kid gloves
- Handwriting on the wall
- Have a bone to pick with you
- Have your cake and eat it too
- Head in the clouds
- High horse
- Hit below the belt
- Hit the nail on the head
- Hitch your wagon to a star
- If the shoe fits, wear it
- In hot water
- In the bag
- In the doghouse
- In the same boat
- It takes two to tango
- Jump off the deep end
- Jump on the bandwagon
- Jack of all trades
- Keep a stiff upper lip
- Kill two birds with one stone
- Leave no stone unturned
- Let sleeping dogs lie
- Let the cat out of the bag
- Let the chips fall where they may
- Like a bump on a log
- Long in the tooth
- Look down your nose at someone
- Make heads or tails out of something
- Make no bones about something
- Mince words
- Mind over matter
- More than meets the eye
- Nothing to sneeze at
- On cloud nine
- On the fence
- On the fritz
- On the ropes
- On top of the world
- Once in a blue moon
- One good turn deserves another
- One track mind
- Out in left field
- Open a can of worms
- Out of the woods
- Out on a limb
- Over the hill
- Over your head
- Pay through the nose
- Pie in the sky
- People who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones
- Point of no return
- Pot calling the kettle black
- Pull out all the stops
- Pull strings
- Pull the wool over your eyes
- Pull your leg
- Put all your eggs in one basket
- Let the cat out of the bag
- Raining cats and dogs
- Rat race
- Read between the lines
- Read the riot act
- The real McCoy
- Red herring
- Red tape
- Rome was not built in a day
- Round peg in a square hole
- Rub the wrong way
- Salt of the earth
- See eye to eye
- Shake a leg
- Shoe is on the other foot
- Show your true colors
- Smell a rat
- Spill the beans
- Stir up a hornet’s nest
- Straight from the horse’s mouth
- Swan song
- Take with a grain of salt
- Through the grapevine
- Throw a monkey wrench into the works
- Throw in the towel
- Tickled pink
- Top banana
- Turn over a new leaf
- Turn the other check
- Two faced
- Under the weather
- Up against the wall
- Walk on eggs
- Walking on air
- Wear your heart on your sleeves
- Butter someone up