IDIOMS IV

The Word's The Thing

Dr. Louis D. Appel

Idiomatic expressions go beyond their literal meanings to capture the human condition. Can you think of idioms that help describe the situations below?

 

1. Take on more than you can handle

2. Be truthful and candid 

3. Get really angry suddenly

4. Brag about yourself

5. Stand up and support someone

6. Dismiss, not take seriously

7. Do your part

8. Avoid talking about the real problem

9. Search and research thoroughly

10. Be in a similar situation

11. In trouble with no means of rescue in sight

12. Just like your dad

13. Lively and fun person to be around

14. Severely criticize

15. Run away - often in a cowardly way

16. Set a limit 

17. Feeling yucky 

18. Ask for monetary contributions

19. Remove unnecessary things to be ready for action

20. Learning something the hard way through challenge or difficulty

Answers:

 

1. Bite off more than you can chew

2. Call a spade a spade

3. Fly off the handle

4. Blow your own horn

5. Go to bat for

6. Make short shrift of

7. Pull your own weight

8. Beat around the bush

9. Leave no stone unturned

10. Be in the same boat

11. Up the creek without a paddle

12. Chip off the old block

13. Life of the party

14. Rake over the coals

15. Turn tail

16. Draw the line

17. Under the weather

18. Pass the  hat

19. Clear the deck

20. Baptism of fire