Idiom Practice 6

Here you get 10 idioms presented as fill-in-the-blank sentences, with one word left out of each.

You might complete She always passes her exams with flying ___. or Comparing cars and boats is a lot like comparing ___ to oranges. picking up phrasing that sounds natural to native speakers.

One has a surprisingly literal root: red tape refers to the actual red ribbon once used to tie up official documents, so cutting through it came to mean getting past pointless bureaucratic rules.

Recommended level: intermediate.