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Halloween Idioms

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    Learn some spine tingling idioms about the spookiest time of the year.
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  • To dig one's grave
    To prepare your grave.
    To dig someone else's grave.
    To work in a grave yard.
    To be responsible for one's downfall or ruin. It's a way of
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  • Playing devil's advocate.
    To be the Devil's secretary.
    To present both sides of an argument to help a situation.
    To star as the Devil in a play.
    To dress up as the Devil for Halloween.
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  • Stabbed in the back.
    To be in a scary movie.
    To drop your knife on the floor.
    To be betrayed by a friend or colleague.
    To actually get a knife in the back.
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  • Over my dead body.
    To refuse to do something.
    To run and trip into a fresh grave.
    To step over a dead body.
    To put something over a body.
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  • Witch hunt.
    Looking for witches.
    Trying to become Harry Potter.
    Trying to punish people for their opinion usually.
    Trying to cast a spell.
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  • To be scared stiff.
    To call for help.
    To run away because you are scared.
    To get so scared you're not able to move.
    To become stiff.
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  • To make someone's blood boil.
    To set their blood on fire.
    To make someone very angry.
    To eat too much hot sauce.
    To leave the stove on.
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  • In cold blood.
    To do something deliberately in a ruthless manner.
    To dip something in blood.
    To be freezing.
    To put blood in the refrigerator.
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  • Skeleton in the closet/cupboard.
    Someone who can't be trusted.
    They are hiding a body in the closet.
    A closet made of skeletons
    To have an embarrassing secret about your past.
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  • To smell a rat.
    To smell something stinky.
    To suspect that something wrong or dishonest is happening.
    To have a rat infestation.
    A need to buy cheese and traps.
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  • To scare the pants off someone
    When your pants run away
    When someone is shaking.
    To frighten someone a lot.
    When your pants are scared.
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  • Skeleton staff.
    The smallest number of people needed for a business to opera
    People who don't eat.
    Zombie employees
    The undead take over the world.
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  • Ghost town.
    A town named Ghost Town
    A town where ghosts used to hang out.
    A town full of ghosts
    A deserted place where there are few or no people.
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  • Scaredy cat.
    Someone who is easily frightened.
    A person who takes care of timid cats.
    A person who dresses up like a cat for Halloween.
    A scared cat.
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  • Wouldn't say boo to a goose.
    A shy or nervous person.
    A person who does not like scary things.
    A person who thinks they are a ghost.
    A person who does not like birds.
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  • Drop dead gorgeous.
    A prom queen.
    Someone very good looking.
    A pretty zombie.
    An actress from a scary movie.
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