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The Most Common English Expressions

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  • Pull someone's leg means to support someone to continue.
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    False
  • What does this expression mean? To break the ice.
    To feel comfortable in a conversation with a stranger
    To turn on the lights during the daytime
    To punch someone in the face till they bleed
    To get warm in a cold place
  • What does this expression mean? Take it with a grain of salt.
    Take it seriously
    Don't believe it blindly, doubt it a little bit
    Take it slowly and gently
    Add some salt to it then eat it
  • What does this expression mean? Break a leg.
    Go fight
    Don't get into problems
    Speed recovery
    Good luck
  • What does this expression mean? It's a piece of cake.
    It's very soft
    It's very special
    It's very sweet
    It's very easy
  • What does this expression mean? Hang in there.
    Keep your mouth shut
    Don't move
    Pray for me
    Don't give up
  • What does this expression mean? It's not rocket science.
    It's not scientific
    It's not difficult to understand
    It's not about astrophysics
    It doesn't make sense
  • Beat around the bush means avoiding the main subject by talking about irrelevant things.
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    True
  • What does this expression mean? Wrap your head around something!
    To feel a headache
    To understand something complicated
    To drink too much
    To lose your mind
  • What does this expression mean? Speaking of the devil!
    Speaking about a dead person
    Speaking about something bad
    Speaking about Satan
    Speaking about a person then s/he show up!
  • What does this expression mean? We don't see eye to eye.
    We don't love each other
    We don't speak with each other
    We don't agree with each other
    We didn't see each other in a long time
  • To pull someone's leg means to trick or lie to someone in a playful way. Example : 'stop pulling my leg, my wife doesn't want a divorce!'
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    True
  • What does this expression mean? It got out of hand.
    It got out of the house
    My hand is slippery
    It ran away from the hand
    It got out of control
  • Don't cry over spilt milk means don't cook when you're drunk.
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    False
  • To make matters worse means to make problems worse.
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    True
  • The elephant in the room means the problem people are avoiding.
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    False
  • What does this expression mean? Saving for rainy days.
    Keeping Summer fruits for Winter
    Praying a lot so that you can go to heaven
    Saving a soldier during a war
    Saving money for tough times
  • What does this expression mean? Time flies!
    I am drunk
    It's getting dark
    Time is being wasted
    Time goes fast
  • Cutting corners means "doing something poorly in order to save time or money".
    False
    True