English Idiom Quiz - Fluency Spot

Speak of the devil

Please select 2 correct answers

To not feel good

To get used to a new situation or circumstance

When you talk about someone and then they appear

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When pigs fly

Be well-informed

To get fired or removed from something (a job, a team, a relationship etc.)

A sarcastic saying used to imply that something is impossible or highly unlikely to happen

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Feel under the weather

To take a shortcut

To not feel good

To be able to understand something

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Raise the bar

To keep asking for help when you do not need it

To raise the standards for other people to follow

Be well-informed

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Shoot yourself in the foot

To do or say something that causes problems for you

To remember something or someone. Usually said when something sounds familiar to you

To take a shortcut

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Let the chips fall where they may

Not taking a side, not making a clear choice between two possibilities

To raise the standards for other people to follow

Let something happen despite the consequences

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Find your feet

To avoid being straight forward, to avoid getting to the main point of a subject

To get used to a new situation or circumstance

To be able to understand something

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Go cold turkey

To stop doing something suddenly without weening off of it

To get fired or removed from something (a job, a team, a relationship etc.).

To not feel good

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Wrap your head around it

Be well-informed

To be able to understand something

To get used to a new situation or circumstance

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To cut corners

To take a shortcut

To not feel good

To identify and fix the problem in a machine or system

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Be on the ball

To look very good

To be well-informed

To avoid being straight forward, to avoid getting to the main point of a subject

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Get the axe

To get used to a new situation or circumstance

To be exact about something, to describe exactly what is causing a situation or problem

To get fired or removed from something (a job, a team, a relationship etc.)

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To hit the nail on the head

To do everything possible for achieving the goal; to look everywhere

To be exact about something, to describe exactly what is causing a situation or problem

To identify and fix the problem in a machine or system

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On thin ice

To be in a dangerous situation or in a risky position

To get used to a new situation or circumstance

To avoid being straight forward, to avoid getting to the main point of a subject

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Leave no stone unturned

Words of encouragement during an undesirable situation. Be patient, things will be better

Not taking a side, not making a clear choice between two possibilities

To do everything possible for achieving the goal; to look everywhere

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