What structure houses honeybees?
Beehive
When you make a joke, and it's not well received, it B.....
backfires
a way of deliberately downplaying the significance of a situation is called an U....
understatement
Make a conditional inversion: If you have time, call me
Should you have time, call me
What is this meme called?
"Hide the Pain Harold"
All the interruptions and demands at home slowly destroy my ability to focus. 👉 Which idiom means something is gradually damaging your focus?
Chip away at
a combination of two contradictory words or ideas used to create a specific effect is an O....
oxymoron
Do you remember this simile? She is sly .....
Sly as a fox
Make a conditional inversion: If I had bought the cake, I wouldn't be cakeless right now
Had I bought the cake, I ....
Using a modal verb, how can we transform this sentence?: I'm almost 100% sure that Joanna is not on holiday
Joanna can't be on holiday
A synonym for strange is B.....
bizarre
Do you remember this simile? If you drink far too much, you might get D...........
Drunk as a skunk
Dealing with constant interruptions is something I just have to accept in my daily life. 👉 What phrase means something is an unavoidable part of a situation?
Part and parcel
Make a conditional inversion: If I were rich, I would travel the world.
Were I (to be) rich, I would travel the world
When you accept to much work/responsabiloty, you can say that you "Bit ....
bit off more than I could chew
An important moment in your life, what you've worked hard to reach, is called a M......
milestone
Create an inversion: The waiter was so rude that I decided never to go back
So rude was the waiter that I decided....
What do we call celebrations that are about Maturing/becoming an adult?
Coming-of-age ceremonies
What do we call the experience of being a Women? W.....
womanhood
Do you remember this simile? If someone barely speaks, they are Q................
quiet as a mouse
When you don't have to depend on other people, you are S....-R.......
self reliant
I forgot to respond to some emails and completely missed a couple of deadlines — small details I didn’t notice. 👉 What’s the idiom for missing small but important things?
Slip through the cracks
Transform this into an inversion: I had never tried Scones before I went to England
Never (before) had I tried scones before I went to England
What are all of these events examples of? Death, weddings, high school graduations, births, funerals etc.
Rites of passage
Another way of saying "proper" or "complete", e.g. She's a proper adult is F.... F.....
fully-fledged
What is an image/video that spreads quickly called, in other words?
A meme
Create an inversion: I had no idea she was trying to protect me
Little did I know she was trying to protect me
Do you remember this simile? if you can't see well, you're B...... as ... ......
blind as a bat
When you ignore something that is happening, e.g. the police seeing someone smoking a blunt, what idiom can we use to describe that? Turn........
Turn a blind eye to...
A phrasal verb which means to produce something, especially in large quantities, quickly and often with little care or effort" is C.........
Crank out