Idiom Practice 2 🔒

Another round of 10 idioms, this quiz asks you to drop in the one word that completes each saying.

You might fill in Buying a new car was a piece of ___. or Flat screen TVs are all the ___ these days. picking up everyday expressions as you go.

A fun bit of history: the phrase lame duck started out on the London stock exchange, where it described a trader who could not pay his debts, long before it came to mean a politician on the way out.

Recommended level: intermediate.

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Question 1

Right after lunch they decided to ... it a day and went home.

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Flat screen TVs are all the ... these days.

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The congressman is going to be a lame ... until the next elections.

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You should come ... before the police catch you.

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The new manager took the ... by the horns his first day on the job.

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The train leaves in five hours, so take your ... and finish the newspaper.

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We have never seen our cat go ... like that.

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If you keep ... around, you will miss the plane.

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Our salespeople will not give you a ... sell.

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Buying a new car was a piece of ... .

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