Assessment

Let's test your ability to use context clues when identifying British Idioms. Write your answers down on a clean sheet of paper. Good luck!

1. A penny for your thoughts = ___________________
2. Add insult to injury = ___________________
3. A hot potato = __________________
4. Once in a blue moon = ___________________
5. Caught between two stools = ___________________
6. See eye to eye = ___________________
7. Hear it on the grapevine = ___________________
8. Miss the boat = ___________________
9. Kill two birds with one stone = __________________
10. On the ball = ___________________
11. Cut corners = ___________________
12. To hear something straight from the horse's mouth = ___________________
13. Costs an arm and a leg = ___________________
14. The last straw = ___________________
15. Take what someone says with a pinch of salt = ___________________
16. Sit on the fence = ___________________
17. The best of both worlds = ___________________
18. Put wool over other people's eyes = ___________________
19. Feeling a bit under the weather = ___________________
20. Speak of the devil! = ___________________