Idioms Quiz - 04

Idioms Quiz
General English Questions and Answers
Choose an idiom to replace the expression in the brackets.

1. Choose an idiom to replace the expression in the brackets:
Please (check) the figures again before you pay the money.

a. divide and conquer

b. double-check

c. do a snow job on

d. do justice to

2. Choose an idiom to replace the expression in the brackets:
Cleaning up their new house will take the couple a lot of (effort and energy).

a. elbow room

b. elbow grease

c. extenuating circumstances

d. eleventh-hour decisions

3. Choose an idiom to replace the expression in the brackets:
My sister is (critical of) her daughter's friends.

a. dropping in on

b. drumming up

c. down with

d. down on

4. Choose an idiom to replace the expression in the brackets:
My friend is always (pushing me on) when I am angry about something.

a. egging me on

b. excusing himself

c. eating crow

d. eating his words

5. Choose an idiom to replace the expression in the brackets:
The barking of the dog is (making me crazy).

a. dancing with death

b. doomed to failure

c. driving me up a wall

d. down-at-the-heels

6. Choose an idiom to replace the expression in the brackets:
The girl's mother gave her (a scolding) when she returned home late from school.

a. every other

b. an earful

c. an eagle eye

d. either feast or famine

7. Choose an idiom to replace the expression in the brackets:
The used car that we bought began to (stop working properly) after only three months.

a. fall on deaf ears

b. flip out

c. fall apart

d. fall out of use

8. Choose an idiom to replace the expression in the brackets:
My mother was (dressed in) her best dress to go to the ceremony.

a. day in and day out in

b. decked out in

c. dead ahead in

d. done for

9. Choose an idiom to replace the expression in the brackets:
It will (relax him) if he goes to the beach for the weekend.

a. do him good

b. darken his door

c. dance to a different tune

d. drag his feet

10. Choose an idiom to replace the expression in the brackets:
My sister is (in serious trouble) with her job.

a. a dime a dozen

b. down her alley

c. down to the wire

d. in deep water

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