English: idioms and vocabulary

Descrição

This test is about English idiomatic expressions and vocabulary.
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Questão 1

Questão
What does it mean "to scrap the bottom of the barrel"?
Responda
  • To choose the worst
  • To live with little money
  • To be about to die
  • To be of the desired stantard

Questão 2

Questão
What's the name of this?
Responda
  • Apron
  • Ample
  • Plateau

Questão 3

Questão
Choose those options that are positive, happy, good, desirable, etc.
Responda
  • Up and about
  • In the black
  • To be state-of-the-art
  • To be all the rage
  • To have stood the test of time
  • To be living in clover
  • Not to be able to hold a candle to
  • Down and out
  • Living rough
  • To be nothing but skin and bones

Questão 4

Questão
Choose those options related to age or time.
Responda
  • To be past it
  • To be living in the past
  • Till the cows come home
  • For donkey's years
  • Round-the-clock
  • Not to be all it's cracked up to be
  • Get into the swing
  • In clover
  • An old flame
  • Pick up the tab

Questão 5

Questão
How do I say "to produce good results"?
Responda
  • To bear fruit
  • To mean business
  • To be up to scratch

Questão 6

Questão
What is the correct and accurate expression to mean "active after an illness"?
Responda
  • Up and about
  • Alive and kicking
  • Touch and go
  • As strong as an ox

Questão 7

Questão
If I'm in the red, I'm feeling the pinch, so I may be in a tight corner and have to tighten my belt.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 8

Questão
To live until a very old age is to live to a...
Responda
  • ...ripe old age
  • ...round-the-clock age
  • ...donkey's year

Questão 9

Questão
Choose those adjectives you think suit the car shown in the picture.
Responda
  • Past it
  • As old as the hills
  • The last word
  • And old flame

Questão 10

Questão
Which of these options means "to observe carefully"?
Responda
  • To keep tabs on
  • To convey
  • To fiddle around

Questão 11

Questão
To annoy somebody too much, is to drive him/her
Responda
  • Round the bend
  • Crazy
  • Head over heals

Questão 12

Questão
If someone is an old of flame of mine, I'm head over heels in love with him/her.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 13

Questão
What is the name of the person who directs and coordinates a TV or radio programme?
Responda
  • Anchorman
  • Sexpot
  • Sailor

Questão 14

Questão
Choose those options related to sleep.
Responda
  • Doze
  • Nap
  • Kip
  • Siesta
  • Drowsy
  • Nod
  • Tear down
  • Clot
  • Whim
  • Smooth

Questão 15

Questão
To be suffering because of lack of money is to be
Responda
  • Feeling the pinch
  • In black
  • At the end of one's tether
  • Past it

Questão 16

Questão
You can't be as poor as a church mouse and living rough at the same time.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 17

Questão
What adjective do you use to describe a child who's at home without an adult?
Responda
  • Latchkey
  • Leak
  • Whim
  • Loo
  • Shapely
  • Brat

Questão 18

Questão
What is it to be "like putty in somebody's hands"?
Responda
  • To be submissive.
  • To be thin, ill and weak.
  • To be old.
  • To love or be loved.

Questão 19

Questão
If something is among my interests, it's
Responda
  • Right up my street
  • In my element
  • Off the beaten track

Questão 20

Questão
You can't join the jet set and keep up with the Joneses.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 21

Questão
If something broke the mould, it also broke new ground.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 22

Questão
You can't be an up-and-coming business man at the same time you're going downhill.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 23

Questão
If you're one of the big guns, you may call the shots.
Responda
  • True
  • False

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