Idioms 1

I cannot understand why she did that, it really doesn't add up.

• doesn't calculate

• isn't mathematics

• doesn't make sense

• makes the wrong addition

All the students got high marks in the test but Mary stood out.

• got a lot of marks

• got higher marks than someone

• got very good marks

• got very good marks

He has sold his house and has no job and so now he has next to nothing.

• he is unemployed

• he has almost no money

• he has a few things

• he has nothing at all

As a newspaper reporter she always wanted to get information at first hand.

• quickly

• slowly

• easily

• directly

I think we can safely say now that we have got our money back, we are home and dry.

• have not got wet

• have got no water

• have been successful

• have got home dry

He is the man who owns all the land and is the big fish around here.

• the fat man

• the huge man

• the important man

• the enormous man

She never stops talking about herself and is full of herself.

• is very fat

• is too fat

• is very full

• is very conceited

You will not slip over because the floor is as dry as a bone.

• completely hard

• extremely flat

• totally dry

• completely cracked

He kept saying he didn't do it but in the end he said he had done it.

• at the end

• finally

• at last

• by the end

I know you are very sorry that you broke the pot but accidents will happen.

• things will take place

• things do occur

• things take place often

• things often go wrong