Idiom Practice 1

This fill-in-the-blank quiz tests 10 common American idioms by leaving out the key word for you to supply.

You finish a sentence like No matter how aggravated the customers get, she stays as cool as a ___. or Are you guys going to tie the ___ this year? which is a fun way to build natural-sounding English.

One phrase here has a clear source: the expression catch-22 comes straight from Joseph Heller's 1961 novel of the same name, where it describes a no-win situation with rules that trap you either way.

Recommended level: intermediate.