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Idiom Meaning
To ignore or refuse to listen to somebody/
Turn a deaf year
something
To avoid having a close relationship with
Keep somebody at arm’s length
somebody
A happy event The birth of a baby

Under the weather Feeling slightly ill

Practice Questions

Use the given idioms in your sentences.
1. A red-letter day 2. Jump for joy

3. The nuts and bolts 4. Feel on the top of the world
5. A long face 6. In somebody’s hour of need
7. Jog your memory 8. Part and parcel

9. Be poles apart 10. A rat race

11. A stitch in time saves nine 12. Strike gold
13. Make ends meet 14. Loose face
15. Learn your lesson

Words Often Confused
Here is a list of easily confused words.

Words Meaning
accidentally without intention or planning; by chance

incidentally by the way

adapt adjust
adopt to make somebody's child your child by law

allusion an indirect reference to or mention of something

illusion a state of seeing, hearing, or sensing things in a false way

ambiguous not very clear

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