65 Common Idioms | Baamboozle - Baamboozle | The Most Fun Classroom Games!

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To work late into the night, alluding to the time before electric lighting.

Burn the midnight oil.

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Avoiding the main topic. Not speaking directly about the issue.

Beat around the bush.

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To take the credit for something someone else did.

Steal someone's thunder.

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When you are extremely desperate you need to take drastic actions.

Drastic times call for drastic measures.

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Speak of an issue (mostly current) which many people are talking about and which is usually disputed

A hot potato

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Meaning - do not disturb a situation as it is - since it would result in trouble or complications.

Let sleeping dogs lie.

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Would never like to do something.

Wouldn't be caught dead.

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eraser

Reset score!

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magnet

Take 25 points!

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fairy

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banana

Go to last place!

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banana

Go to last place!

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seesaw

Swap points!

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rocket

Go to first place!

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thief

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This expression is used when the person you have just been talking about arrives.

Speak of the devil!

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banana

Go to last place!

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rocket

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fairy

Take points!

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thief

Give points!

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baam

Lose 10 points!

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rocket

Go to first place!

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fairy

Take points!

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baam

Lose 25 points!

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This idiom is used to say that someone missed his or her chance.

Miss the boat.

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The show has come to an end. It's all over.

Elvis has left the building.

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Something good that isn't recognized at first.

Blessing in disguise.

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Everything. All of it.

Whole nine yards.

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