Idioms

Ace up your sleeve

• You are giving your attention

  or focus to the wrong thing.

• Having a special advantage that is not used until the very last moment.

• A small automobile accident.

• Don't cause problems by do something when it isn't necessary.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

Barking up the wrong tree

• To make something seem much more important than it really is.

• To find something amusing.

• To take things as they come.

• You are giving your attention or focus to the wrong thing.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

Bury the hatchet

• Being ready to listen.

• To settle an argument or put the past behind you.

• To have control of someone or of a group of people.

• To tell someone to go away and stop bothering you.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

To send me a letter or an email

• drop me a line

• go fly a kite

• leave well enough alone

• fair-weather friend

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

To take things as they come

• All ears

• Crying wolf

• Go with the flow

• Keep one's chin up

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

A small automobile accident.

• fender bender

• to pull someone's leg

• all ears

• to get a kick out of something

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

To get out of doing something unpleasant.

• Let's call it a day

• go fly a kite

• off the hook

• fair-weather friend

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

Don't cause problems by doing something when it isn't necessary.

• let sleeping dogs lie

• I'm at the end of my rope

• ace up your sleeve

• make a mountain out of a molehill

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

Being ready to listen carefully.

• leave well enough alone

• off the hook

• crying wolf

• all ears

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

Not being able to take it any more

• To give a false alarm.

• Drop me a line

• I'm at the end of my rope.

• To tell someone to go away and stop bothering you.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B