Look at the different explanations of each idiom and then order the words of the idiom that match the explanation.
1) Tony really drinks a lot of alcohol.
Tony fish like a drinks
2) Whenever the boss is out of the office, the colleagues do whatever they want.
mice will the cat’s When the away play
3) I am really nervous about my job interview.
I have stomach in my butterflies
4) Susan always exaggerates the smallest problems!
a Susan always makes molehill out of a mountain
5) Bobby didn’t like my birthday present to him and I told him not to be ungrateful.
I told him not to gift horse look mouth in the
6) Andy wanted to celebrate passing his exam before he even got his results! I told him not to do that.
I told him not to chickens before count hatched they’re
7) Betty never talks much in class.
She is mouse as a quiet as
8) When I went for a job interview I was so nervous I almost couldn’t speak.
The boss asked me if cat got the has tongue my
9) Some people will never change their habits and behaviours.
can’t leopard spots his change A
10) Simon was extremely happy when Fatima agreed to marry him.
He was like two dog with a tails
Now rewrite the the sentences in the correct order.
Link: More practice with other common animal idioms
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- Sentence 9:
- Sentence 10:
Comments
Animal idioms
I wrote all sentences correct, but I used capital letters at the beginning of the each sentence and full stop at the end. That's why checking engine showed me that all my answers were wrong.
Anyway, thank you for the interesting lesson.
Good point - it's ok to use
Good point - it's ok to use capital letters, but please do not use full-stops (periods).
Thanks,
Chris
Typo
I think I have found a typo.
In the "right" answer the apostophe is absence.
when the cats away the mice will play
Should be:
when the cat's away the mice will play
cat's
Thanks. You are right - it should be "cat's". It has now been fixed.
Chris