Idioms 1-9 | Baamboozle - Baamboozle | The Most Fun Classroom Games!

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Idioms practice

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Guess and define the idiom.

PAINT THE TOWN RED - to go out and enjoy yourself by drinking alcohol, dancing, laughing with friends, etc

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Guess and define the idiom

GET ITCHY FEET - have a desire to travel

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Guess and define the idiom.

BE THE PICTURE OF HEALTH - look very healthy

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Guess and define the idiom.

BY WORD OF MOUTH - given or done in speech rather than in writing

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Guess and define the idiom.

GET COLD FEET - become too frightened to do sth you had planned to do, especially sth important such as getting married

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Fill in both of the sentences with ONE WORD. a) I had my routine down to a fine ______ so there wouldn't be any room for error during the performance. 2) Our new state-of-the-___ facility will be at the cutting edge of cancer research.

ART

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Fill in both of the sentences with ONE WORD. a) Ask Becky to recite the poem - she learned it by ________. b) Isabel's _________ was beating fast with fright.

HEART

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Fill in both of the sentences with ONE WORD. a) Will you keep your eye on my ________ while I go to get the tickets? b) I'm on the road for three months at a time for work, so I've gotten pretty used to living out of a __________.

SUITCASE

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Fill in both of the sentences with ONE WORD. a) You can't expect to just ________ through without doing any work. b) If we __________ in a southeastward direction, we'll reach land.

SAIL

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Fill in both of the sentences with ONE WORD. a) Do you know a good __________ for wholemeal bread? b) All those children unsupervised sounds to me like a _____________ for disaster.

RECIPE

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Fill in both of the sentences with ONE WORD. a) The research institute has found that in 2012 __________ surfers spent 39% more time online than they did eight years earlier. b) Great Britain won a(n) _____________ medal in the javelin.

SILVER

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Fill in the sentence with the correct form of the idiom. Chris is asleep after _ _ _ N _ N _ / the _ _ D _ I _ H _ / _ I _ trying to finish his article.

BURNING THE MIDNIGHT OIL

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Fill in the sentence with the correct form of the idiom. He was forced to _ _ O _ / _ I _/ _ RU _ / _ O _ OR _ when asked how he would vote.

SHOW HIS TRUE COLORS

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Fill in the sentence with the correct form of the idiom. Richards was _ _ _ P _ _ G / _ _ S/ _ H _ _/ _ P yesterday despite the continued setbacks.

KEEPING HIS CHIN UP

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Fill in the sentence with the correct form of the idiom. "What's the capital of Mauritania?" "I don't know _ F_ the _ _ _ / O_ / M_ / _ _A_, but I could go and look it up."

OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD

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Fill in the sentence with the correct form of the idiom. I'm on the road for three months at a time for work, so I've gotten pretty used to _ _ V _ N _ / O_ _ / _F / _ U _ T _ _ S _.

LIVING OUT OF SUITCASE

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