The Idiom Analysis Test:
Answers
1. fortunately: as good
luck would have it
2. make a thorough examination: leave no stone unturned
3. in reverse order: putting the cart before the horse
4. noncommital: sitting in the bushes
5. fate: wheel of fortune
6. submit to something unpleasant: swallow the pill
7. just in time: not a minute too soon
8. verbatim; exactly: word for word
9. to make a decision upon one's own authority: take the law
into one's own hands
10. the same thing: six of one and half dozen of the other
11. instant action: no sooner said than done
12. aggravate; worsen: out of the frying pan into the fire
13. at an advanced age: having one foot in the grave
14. submit to personal insults without showing offense: turn the
other cheek
15. be optimistic: look on the bright side
16. forget injuries and make peace: bury the hatchet
17. be wealthy: live off the fat of the land
18. yield to circumstances over which one has no control: bend
before the storm
19. desire: set one's heart upon
20. to assume charge of: take the helm
21. failing: on the road to ruin
22. go to excess: burn the candle at both ends
23. to hold as truth: take it for granted
24. imitate: follow in the wake of
25. to make a pretense of submitting voluntarily when one has
to:
make a virtue of necessity
26. take the part of: put in a good word for
27. favourite: apple of one's eye
28. give tacit approval: shut one's eyes to
29. change one's old habits: turn over a new leaf
30. be thankful for one's good fortune: bless one's stars
31. maintain a position: hold one's ground
32. apparently good, but not: rotten at the core
33. a treacherous person: wolf in sheep s clothing
34. make things harmonious: pour oil on troubled waters
35. cause a disturbance: kick up a row
36. irritate: fan the flame
37. steadfastly; resolutely: through thick and thin
38. altogether: at one fell swoop
39. showing the least possible care for: not care a straw for
40. act the tyrant: rule with a rod of iron
41. scraps; remnants: odds and ends
42. the pursuit of something impossible to attain: wild goose chase
43. reach a settlement: come to an understanding
44. to take advantage of disturbance and trouble to gain on end:
fish in troubled waters
45. disagreeing: at sixes and sevens
46. deport oneself as well as possible: be on one's best behaviour
47. a course of action with no alternatives: Hobson's choice
48. a fateful day: the ides of March
49. final means or effort to escape from an impending evil:
last resort
50. to be forced to an extremity: be pushed to the wall
51. in some manner: one way or another
52. the grimmest scenario?: if the worst comes to worst
53. go to ruin: go to the dogs
54. begin writing: take up the pen
55. examine one very thoroughly: pick the brains of
56. explain or interpret: shed light upon
57. a happily married couple: Darby and Joan
58. a state of general confusion: bull in a china shop
59. to lose one's life: kick the bucket
60. keep out hunger: keep the wolf from the door
61. pass through danger: run the gauntlet
62. go to excess: butter one's bread on both sides
63. misteaching: blind leading the blind
64. portent: bird of ill omen
65. disparage: speak ill of behind one's back
66. frighten; strike with horror: make one's hair stand on
end
67. luxuriously indolent: living in the lap of luxury
68. very intimate: hand and glove
69. not be very friendly with: hold at arm's length
70. the first and the last: alpha and omega
71. remember: keep the memory alive
72. drop the main subject: fly off at a tangent
73. amass money from holding an office: feather one's nest
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