INSTRUCTIONS: Copy the table below into your notebook and MATCH the meanings on COLUMN B with the IDIOMS on COLUMN A
COLUMN A: IDIOMS {a} Keep your finger on the pulse {b} Put your shoulders to the wheel.
COLUMN B: MEANINGS To think that people are making a lot of unnecessary fuss or excitement about something unimportant. Something better than you imagined or hoped for.
{c} Make a mountain out of a molehill.
To be in a very strong position because you have more advantages than anyone else.
{d} Have a bone to pick with someone.
To admit that you cannot succeed in doing something or that you are defeated.
{e} Fly by the seat of your pants.
To disagree very strongly with someone or an organization’s opinion.
{f} Beyond one’s wildest dreams.
Manage to do something successfully in a difficult circumstances.
{g} Throw in the towel.
A selfish person; someone who stops others from enjoying something he cannot use or doesn’t need.
{h} At loggerheads.
Extremely angry about something.
{i} Hold all the aces.
An achievement one should be proud of.