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The Most Common English Expressions

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    #English #idioms, #proverbs, and #expressions are an important part of everyday English. They come up all the time in both #written and #spoken Englis...
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  • What does this expression mean? It's a piece of cake.
    It's very special
    It's very soft
    It's very sweet
    It's very easy
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  • What does this expression mean? Break a leg.
    Don't get into problems
    Go fight
    Speed recovery
    Good luck
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  • Beat around the bush means avoiding the main subject by talking about irrelevant things.
    False
    True
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  • What does this expression mean? We don't see eye to eye.
    We don't love each other
    We don't agree with each other
    We don't speak with each other
    We didn't see each other in a long time
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  • What does this expression mean? It got out of hand.
    It got out of control
    My hand is slippery
    It got out of the house
    It ran away from the hand
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  • Cutting corners means "doing something poorly in order to save time or money".
    False
    True
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  • What does this expression mean? Hang in there.
    Don't give up
    Keep your mouth shut
    Pray for me
    Don't move
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  • What does this expression mean? It's not rocket science.
    It's not difficult to understand
    It's not scientific
    It's not about astrophysics
    It doesn't make sense
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  • Pull someone's leg means to support someone to continue.
    True
    False
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  • What does this expression mean? Speaking of the devil!
    Speaking about Satan
    Speaking about something bad
    Speaking about a person then s/he show up!
    Speaking about a dead person
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  • What does this expression mean? Time flies!
    Time is being wasted
    It's getting dark
    I am drunk
    Time goes fast
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  • To make matters worse means to make problems worse.
    True
    False
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  • What does this expression mean? Wrap your head around something!
    To lose your mind
    To drink too much
    To feel a headache
    To understand something complicated
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  • What does this expression mean? To break the ice.
    To punch someone in the face till they bleed
    To get warm in a cold place
    To turn on the lights during the daytime
    To feel comfortable in a conversation with a stranger
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  • Don't cry over spilt milk means don't cook when you're drunk.
    False
    True
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  • What does this expression mean? Saving for rainy days.
    Praying a lot so that you can go to heaven
    Keeping Summer fruits for Winter
    Saving money for tough times
    Saving a soldier during a war
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