english idioms test

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English Idioms Test

This test is designed for students of English as a second and foreign language, andallows learners to quickly assess their knowledge of English idioms and fixedphrases. An idiom is a common expression that has acquired a meaning that cannot

easily be understood from the ordinary meanings of the words, as in Its rainingcats and dogs" meaning "it's raining very heavily". At the end of the test you will seeyour test result and will be given a percentage. The test should take around 25minutes to complete.

1) Hania and Joanna are as different as and cheese?

a) biscuits

b) chalk

c) ham

d) jam

:Two things that are very different from each other.

2) My father wants me to study law, but I have made up my to become anarchaeologist, instead.

a) heart

b) head

c) brain

d) mind

: to decide what to choose

3) If something frightens you it gives you the .

a) wood

b) bulls

c) willies


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d) hots

: to make you feel frightened or nervous

4) You haven't been studying much recently and you'd better if you want topass the Cambridge CPE exam.

a) thread your way through

b) meet your Waterloo

c) pull your socks up

d) change your spots

: to make an effort to improve your work or behaviour because it isnot good enough

5) Magda was after she heard that she had won a televison in a competition.

a) over the hill

b) on cloud nine

c) on the hop

d) over the peg

very happy

6) Donna after her husband left her for a younger woman.

a) read between the lines

b) lead the field

c) took to the bottle

d) spared the rod

:to start drinking alcohol heavily and for an extended period of time


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7) Don't throw that old FCE testbookaway. It will in handy when your sister isstudying for the college entry examination.

a) turn

b) find

c) come

d) give

: to be useful

8) Simon was given the cold by the other teachers after informing thenewspapers about widespread corruption at the college.

a) chin

b) shoulder

c) neck

d) back

an attitude of rejection

9) Wild boar haven't been seen in this of the woods for about ten yearsbecause of overhunting in the past.

a) walk

b) ward

c) neck

d) leg

area of the country

10) Charles has been in Kamila's since he called her a fat slag.

a) bad letters

b) bad books


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c) bad records

d) bad papers

If you are in someone's bad books, they are angry with you.Likewise, if you are in their good books, they are pleased with yo u.

11) The school director's resignation came like a bolt from the . Nobody hadexpected it.

a) green

b) red

c) black

d) blue

A complete surprise, like a bolt of lightning from a blue sky.

12) Marcin's father wasn't happy to find his son drunk on the bathroom floorwith a bottle of Vodka beside him.

a) blind

b) stiff

c) deep

d) tight

:very drunk

13) The President is very old. He's as old as the .

a) moon

b) grave

c) rock

d) hills

: if something is as old as the hills, it has existed for a very long time

14) The Skwierzyna football team never win. So I wouldn't put my on them if Iwere you. You'll only lose it!


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a) shoes

b) shirt

c) jacket

d) hat

If you put yourself in someone's shoes, you imagine what it

is like to be in their position

15) If you tell Maria there's a surprise English test today, you won't see her for .

a) dust

b) cloud

c) rain

d) fog

if you say that you won't see someone for dust, you mean that they

will leave a place very quickly, usually in order to avoid something

16) Neil is famous for making up the most incredible stories, so you'd better takethem with a pinch of .

a) snuff

b) pepper

c) salt

d) herbs

to listen to a story or an explanation with considerable doubt,dont

believe

17) If you you work very hard.

a) work to the winds

b) work like a new leaf


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a) door

b) window

c) condom

d) glove

: fit very well

22) Joanna will never forgive you for letting the . It was meant to be a secret!

a) cows out of the field

b) cat out of the bag

c) pig out of the poke

d) chickens out of the cage

23) John's mean down in the since his girlfriend ditched him for his bestfriend.

a) pockets

b) dumps

c) heels

d) carpets

24) Ever since Hania told him she was pregnant, Christopher has been himself

with worry.

a) next to

b) beside

c) beneath

d) over

25) I was knocked for when Kate told me she had passed her driving test.


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a) hair

b) nerves

c) mouth

d) books

30) Angela will in front of her boss to get a pay rise.

a) hue and cry

b) bow and scrape

c) leap and bound

d) wine and dine

31) Mrs Raven isn't capable of controlling the class. She is so timid she wouldn't say .

a) kill the fatted cow

b) put the cat among the pigeons

c) boo to a goose

d) cry wolf

32) Kate Moss looks like . She's far too skinny!

a) a kettle of fish

b) a bag of bones

c) a whale of a time

d) a bundle of nerves


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33) Some of the boys in the class used to take the out of Alfie's speechimpediment.

a) hooray

b) mickey

c) cackle

d) hampers

34) If something true it sounds true.

a) rings

b) chimes

c) shouts

d) beeps

35) I was ....... off with some rotten apples at the corner shop.

a) palmed

b) handed

c) armed

d) fingered

36) To fun at someone is to laugh rudely at them.

a) give

b) stick

c) beat

d) poke


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41) I'm looking for a new place to live. My flat doesn't have enough space to swing a cat.

a) crow

b) cat

c) dog

d) giraffe

42) My neighbour is almost 50 but wears very short skirts, and low-cut tops. Shelooks like .

a) a duck out of water

b) mutton dressed as lamb

c) sheep from goats

d) she has a flea in her ear

43) If you draw a over something unpleasant, you try to forget something andavoid the subject.

a) scarfe

b) hat

c) hood

d) veil

44) Robin Hood was a at archery. He always hit the target.

a) dab hand

b) rough diamond

c) vested interest


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c) pink

d) black

49) The decision has already been taken, so there's no point in your .

a) giving a tickle

b) taking the biscuit

c) being tickled pink

d) arguing the toss

50) She would have failed the practical exam by a long way, but the school decidedto the rules so that she passed.

a) bend

b) twist

c) skip

d) dodge

Question 1=bQuestion 2=dQuestion 3=cQuestion 4=cQuestion 5=b

Question 6=cQuestion 7=cQuestion 8=bQuestion 9=c

Question 10=bQuestion 11=dQuestion 12=aQuestion 13=dQuestion 14=dQuestion 15=aQuestion 16=c

Question 17=cQuestion 18=a


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Question 19=bQuestion 20=cQuestion 21=dQuestion 22=bQuestion 23=b

Question 24=bQuestion 25=dQuestion 26=bQuestion 27=aQuestion 28=cQuestion 29=aQuestion 30=bQuestion 31=cQuestion 32=bQuestion 33=bQuestion 34=a

Question 35=aQuestion 36=dQuestion 37=aQuestion 38=cQuestion 39=cQuestion 40=bQuestion 41=bQuestion 42=bQuestion 43=dQuestion 44=aQuestion 45=bQuestion 46=bQuestion 47=cQuestion 48=aQuestion 49=dQuestion 50=a

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