Adding Up - English Idioms

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Adding Up
English Idioms

1) I cannot understand why she did that, it really "doesn't add up".

a) doesn't calculate
b) isn't mathematics
c) doesn't make sense
d) makes the wrong addition

2) All the students got high marks in the test but Mary "stood out".

a) got a lot of marks
b) got higher marks than someone
c) got very good marks
d) got the most marks of all

3) He has sold his house and has no job and so now "he has next to nothing".

a) he is unemployed
b) he has almost no money
c) he has a few things
d) he has nothing at all

4) As a newspaper reporter she always wanted to get information "at first hand".

a) quickly
b) slowly
c) easily
d) directly

5) I think we can safely say now that we have got our money back, we are "home and dry".

a) have not got wet
b) have got no water
c) have been successful
d) have got home dry

6) He is the man who owns all the land and is "the big fish" around here.

a) the fat man
b) the huge man
c) the important man
d) the enormous man

7) She never stops talking about herself and is "full of herself".

a) is very fat
b) is too fat
c) is very full
d) is very conceited

8) You will not slip over because the floor is "as dry as a bone".

a) completely hard
b) extremely flat
c) totally dry
d) completely cracked

9) He kept saying he didn't do it but "in the end" he said he had done it.

a) at the end
b) finally
c) at last
d) by the end

10) I know you are very sorry that you broke the pot but "accidents will happen."

a) things will take place
b) things do occur
c) things take place often
c) things often go wrong

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