ENGLISH IDIOMS

You crack me up.

• A You make me laugh.

• B You hurt me.

• C You woke me up.

Hit the books.

• A Books are hard to hit.

• B It is better to hit books than people.

• C It is time to study.

I wanted to be absent from school today, but I had to face the music and go this morning.

• When you do not want to do something, but you have to do it.

• When you are excited about doing something.

• When you want to do something, but you cannot do it.

• When your face hits the music.

Tags

CCSS.L.8.4A

CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RL.8.4

Hold your horses, Stacey. We have to ask our teacher BEFORE we go to the bathroom.

• Let's go!

• Wait a minute / moment.

• Let's hurry up!

• Hold the reigns of a horse.

Tags

CCSS.L.8.4A

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.8.4

I thought the shirt was going to be cheap, but instead it cost me an arm and a leg!

• When you find something on sale.

• When something is not good.

• When something is expensive.

• Paying for something with your arm and leg.

Tags

CCSS.L.8.4A

CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RL.8.4

I wanted to throw in the towel after I lost the competition, but my friend said to keep going.

• To not give up.

• To give up.

• Throw a towel in a basket.

• To succeed.

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.8.4

My father and I see eye to eye - we both think FC Barcelona and Brazil are the best teams!

• To agree

• To disagree

• To be wrong

• To be happy

Tags

CCSS.L.8.4A

CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

"I think I am going to ________ now. I am totally exhausted," said Ching Man.

• hit the sack

• on cloud nine

• give me a hand

• pulling my leg

If you're barking up the wrong tree it means that you are:

• making a big noise about nothing.

• accusing the wrong person.

• chasing a cat that doesn't exist.

• going insane.

When someone says or does something exactly right, they have...

• turned the other cheek.

• hit the sack.

• jumped on the bandwagon.

• hit the nail on the head.