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Test Your Vocabulary Skills<br />

Common Idioms 2<br />

Idioms are spoken or written sentences where the meaning is not obvious from the individual<br />

words used.<br />

Match the idioms with the meaning keywords below:<br />

1. Your account is in the red.<br />

2. Fingers crossed!<br />

3. It was a piece of cake!<br />

4. Don’t make a mountain out of a molehill.<br />

5. Shut up!<br />

6. The design was cutting edge.<br />

7. Break a leg!<br />

8. Take it easy, can’t you?<br />

9. It’s been raining cats and dogs outside.<br />

10. She’s really tight-fisted.<br />

Meaning Keywords:<br />

a) Stop talking.<br />

b) Easy.<br />

c) Don’t get angry.<br />

d) Get some perspective.<br />

e) Good luck for everyone.<br />

f) Mean.<br />

g) Modern.<br />

h) Good luck for actors.<br />

i) Heavy weather.<br />

j) Overdrawn.<br />

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