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Cliches and Idiom 44-56

Quiz by Andrew Watts

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  • Q1
    Who would get the "Red carpet treatment"?
    A panhandler
    Mr. Watts
    Barack Obama

    Dwait

    30s
  • Q2
    Read between the lines: “Deep down, he’s really a good kid, I am so sorry about all this”
    He is just OK as a person that's why we said deep down.
    He is actually a really great person.
    He is a lot of trouble.
    He is a really deep person.
    30s
  • Q3
    Translate : "I wash my hands of this"
    You have your own issues
    My hands are so dirty
    This is not my problem
    This problem is stuck in my hands
    30s
  • Q4
    Which sentence is a good use of "reinventing the wheel"
    The wheel reinventor came up with lots of ideas other people had already tried.
    The boy reinvented the wheel and now it rolls like brand new.
    The lady who reinvented the wheel was the first to use bent metal to hold paper together.
    The film doesn't reinvent the wheel for action films, but it adds enough clever twists on the genre to still feel fresh and new.
    30s
  • Q5
    Hard-headed
    difficult
    awkward
    stubborn
    annoying
    30s
  • Q6
    The "jury is still out" means...
    they are not back yet
    the jury can't decide
    undecided
    a bad decision is about to be made
    30s
  • Q7
    Which issue is a "hot potato"
    electing a mayor
    choosing which style of potato to eat
    reforming an education system
    planning a holiday
    30s
  • Q8
    Translate "A penny for your thoughts"
    What are you thinking?
    I'll swap your ideas for money.
    You are not so smart.
    Your ideas are cheap.
    30s
  • Q9
    When would you use "Back to the drawing board"
    When you are facing the drawing board and then turn around
    When your Lego bridge breaks as you walk across it.
    When you make a plan but don't try it.
    When you left your pencil on the drawing board
    30s
  • Q10
    Barking up the wrong tree means you are looking in the wrong place.
    true
    false
    True or False
    30s
  • Q11
    Which thing here would be the best thing since sliced bread
    a special diet
    a new kind of super weapon (think Deathstar)
    re-sliced bread slicer
    a translation device that connects to the brain
    30s
  • Q12
    If you "heard it on the grapevine" you heard some news from the TV
    false
    true
    True or False
    30s

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