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English Language Tests-Intermediate level's archive
English Slang Idioms (57)
1."You're doing a good job, Todd. You've made some
minor mistakes, but don't the small stuff," his boss
said.

suffer
seize
sweat
sense
2."You know he's going to try to take advantage of you.
Don't take any nickels, Jane — we didn't raise a
fool," her father said.

wooden
rubber
copper
tin
3."That's just throwing stones when you live in a
house! You complain that she lies, but you've lied yourself
to almost everyone here!" his assistant said.

glass
grass
straw
strong
4.It was going fine and everyone was having fun until my
alcoholic sister the party and started a fight with one
of my co-workers.

crushed

crashed
bashed
brushed
5."Don't upset the . The receiving department's
procedures have always worked quite well. If you try to
change how they do things, you'll just mess it up," Jeannie
told Kurt.

apparatus
bandwagon
beast
applecart
6."I hate it when people wash their dirty in public. I
don't want to hear who or who slept with John. I don't want
to hear any of their personal business!" Elise said to
Pauline.

laundry
hands
clothing
boots
7.He was sick of people telling the same old joke at work.
The joke had been done to and hadn't been that
funny in the first place.

everyone
charcoal
death
boredom
8.She knew it would take 's years for her boss to

retire. She wished he would move or quit.

deer
dog
duck
donkey
9."You Harvard graduates are the of the crop," the
job interviewer told Jessie.

honey
grain
bulk
cream
10.He told his grandfather that he had improved his school
grades from a C to an A average, and his grandpa replied,
" See? I told you always rises to the surface."

cream
bubbling
wood
syrup