Down to Earth - English idioms for advanced level students

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Down to Earth
English Idioms for advanced level students

1) Poor Charlie has been down in the dumps since he learned that he's lost his job.

a) miserable
b) angry
c) furious
d) uneasy

2) I think we've had our fun and now it's time we got down to the idea of earning some money.

a) began slowly to consider
b) began easily to consider
c) began seriously to consider
d) began frankly to consider

3) As soon as they heard the news that one of their fellow workers had been given the sack, they all downed tools.

a) went home
b) stopped working
c) stopped talking
d) worked slowly

4) She always talks down to me as if I'm not worth consideration.

a) speaks softly
b) speaks quickly
c) speaks condescendingly
d) speaks continuously

5) In contrast to her husband she's a very down-to-earth sort of person who manages to control his wild ideas.

a) cynical
b) boring
c) clever
d) practical

6) He's certainly picked himself up since we last saw him when he was clearly down-at-heel.

a) loudly dressed
b) shabbily dressed
c) strangely dressed
d) oddly dressed

7) I invested all my money in that failed company and now I find my whole investment has gone down the drain.

a) has been overtaken
b) has been confirmed
c) has been wasted
d) has been confused

8) You can use special symbols in your emails if you want to show you're down in the mouth.

a) decided
b) definite
c) deflated
d) depressed

9) Let's put it like this — you made the decision and so it's down to you as to what happens next.

a) your responsibility
b) your concern
c) your turn
d) your thought

10) They've had enough of the bad climate and high taxes here and have gone to live down under.

a) in America
b) in China
c) in Australia
c) in India

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