Idioms Quiz - 02

Idioms Quiz
General English Questions and Answers
Choose an idiom to replace the expression in the brackets.

1. Choose an idiom to replace the expression in the brackets:
My parents always want to (make a bigger issue of something than it should be).

a. blow the lid off things

b. blow things out of all proportion

c. be a big frog in a small pond

d. bet their bottom dollar

2. Choose an idiom to replace the expression in the brackets:
My father (became very angry) when he discovered that I had borrowed his car.

a. blacked out

b. bit his tongue

c. blew his top

d. blew his mind

3. Choose an idiom to replace the expression in the brackets:
The houses along the seashore (withstood the worst part of) the hurricane.

a. bore a grudge against

b. beat a hasty retreat from

c. began to see the light of

d. bore the brunt of

4. Choose an idiom to replace the expression in the brackets:
The girl suddenly decided to (interrupt) our conversation.

a. buckle down to

b. butt in on

c. bid adieu to

d. bone up on

5. Choose an idiom to replace the expression in the brackets:
Our plans failed and we had to go (back to the beginning).

a. back-to-back

b. back to square one

c. back and forth

d. back to the salt mines

6. Choose an idiom to replace the expression in the brackets:
The little girl is not popular because she always tries to (tell her friends what to do).

a. blow the whistle on her friends

b. blow up at her friends

c. boot out her friends

d. boss around her friends

7. Choose an idiom to replace the expression in the brackets:
Let`s (stop work) for today and come back tomorrow.

a. carry coals to Newcastle

b. catch some Z's

c. call it quits

d. come across

8. Choose an idiom to replace the expression in the brackets:
I was (unable to pay) when I went to the store so I went home to get some more money.

a. caught unawares

b. caught in the middle

c. caught short

d. cut down to size

9. Choose an idiom to replace the expression in the brackets:
My sister was making progress in her class (very rapidly).

a. by the seat of her pants

b. by the book

c. by the month

d. by leaps and bounds

10. Choose an idiom to replace the expression in the brackets:
The house (was destroyed by fire) during the electrical storm.

a. burned down

b. bore fruit

c. broke fresh ground

d. was a baptism of fire

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