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English Language Tests-Intermediate level's archive
English Slang Idioms (193)
1."You should go to the mall today. There are some good
sales and some cut deals on pants. I got two pairs
for less than 50 percent of their original cost," Bart told
Melissa.

up
bait
rate
cheese
2."I asked you to correct the English errors in my paper
not cut it to . You rewrote almost the whole paper
and now it doesn't include the facts that prove my point,"
Jane told Irma.

pieces
shingles
fit
oblivion
3."We have had to our expenses to the bone since
Jim lost his job. We have even gone so far as to start
riding our bicycles to do errands to save money on gas,"
Laura told Tina.

glue
maul
drive
cut
4.I got in big trouble for up during kitchen duty in
Basic Training. I was restricted to the base and had to do

extra duty.

putting
cutting
forking
buying
5."I am having a hard time with my girlfriend. First, she
gets angry with me for not being supportive of her trying to
lose weight. Then she gets mad at me for encouraging her
to work out and says that I am implicitly calling her fat by
suggesting that she should exercise. I'm damned if I do
and damned if I ," Robby told his best friend.

don't
try
doesn't
care
6.He was very happy that he had talked to Steve about
being late. He thought that Steve would get angry and
continue to be late but Steve had been to a different
tune ever since their discussion. He had been punctual for
every engagement for the last two weeks.

humming
dancing
playing
recording
7.He couldn't believe that his friend had backed out. He
had him to run through the abandoned house and
his friend had accepted in front of all the neighborhood

kids. Now, that he wasn't going to do it, the other kids that
were present at the time, would think his friend was a
wimp.

cheered
cackled
dared
tricked
8."Leave my house immediately, Jim. My wife told me that
you hit on her and asked her to sleep with you. Get out of
my house and never my door again!" Matt yelled.

flattened
hang
bothered
darken
9.He always believed that he and his wife would be able to
work through any problem that they encountered. Then,
during their last fight, it on him that they didn't agree
on almost anything and that they would not be able to
work things out between them.

laughed
dawned
forced
realized
10."The act of marriage, in one form or another, dates
several thousand years," the history professor told
the class.

on
away
for
back