Sunday, July 10, 2022

IDIOMS IX

Can you name the cliche/idiom that describes the following situations?
 
1. Feeling of not being suited for something 
2. End a quarrel or conflict and resume being friends
3. Undecided, vacillating between two choices
4. Say or do something embarrassing or tactless
5. Closely resembling your parent in some way
6. Show you emotions
7. Not feeling well, ill
8. Get two things done by a single action
9. Appearing harmless or friendly, but really very treacherous and dangerous
10. Don't waste time regretting or being upset over something that has already happened and can't be changed 

Answers:
 
1. A square peg in a round hole
2. Bury the hatchet
3. On the fence
4. Put your foot in your mouth
5. Chip off the old block*
6. Wear you heart on your sleeve
7. Under the weather
8. Kill two birds with one stone
9. A wolf in sheep's clothing
10. Don't cry over spilled milk
 
*5: Especially said of sons and their fathers 
 
 


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