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Idioms

Use the review games below to practice.

Re-read the idioms I listed for you. Do you or any of your friends or family use any of them? Of the 12 examples I gave you, I use 3 daily. I want to make sure you understand idioms because it will definitely help the novel come to life. I have constructed a couple sentences for you to practice your understanding of idioms. Open game in new window.

Read the sentences and choose the idioms that you feel best completes the sentence.

1)Which of the idioms means a person was deserving of something negative.

Answer: Had it coming to him

2)She was ________ in the U.S.A

Answer: born and bred

3) If I did not want you to know something, I might tell you...

Answer: Mind your business