Can you guess the meaning of the presented idioms?

I DARE YOU! ;-)

Button your lips

Drive someone up the wall

Elephant in the room

High as a kite

Living on the edge

Mad as a hatter

Raising the roof

Sitting duck

Sitting on a fence

Storm in a teacup

The grass is greener on the other side

Through the roof

Time flies

Think outside the box

Couch potato

Cut corners

Practice time!!!

Match the idioms with their meaning:1. Button your lips

2. Storm in a teacup

3. Through the roof

4. Think outside the box5. Couch potato6. Cut corners

a) A small event exaggerated out of proportion

b) Shut up! Be quiet!c) A person who likes doing

nothing just watching TVd) Think differently,

unconventionallye) Do something in the

easiest and inexpensive way

f) To become very angry

Make your own sentences using those idioms

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Look up the rest of the idioms in the dictionary and give an example sentence of your own

Idioms Examples

Idioms Examples

HW: Use some of the idioms to write a short story using

as many idioms as possible (150 word limit)