Sick & Sky High
If you stayed in bed all morning drinking hot tea because you felt a little bit sick, you were feeling this.
What is under the weather?
An English homework assignment or morning assessment that is incredibly easy to finish early.
Answer: What is a piece of cake
To play a fun game or ask about favorite music to make people feel more comfortable in a brand new social situation.
What is breaking the ice?
A complete decision to change your mind or your feelings—like deciding to make a vegetable stir-fry instead of cooking chicken.
What is a change of heart?
The negative adjective form of acceptable, used to describe a neighbor blasting loud music at 2:00 AM.
What is unacceptable?
A luxury car or a first-class flight to Europe that is extremely expensive and costs too much money.
What costs an arm and a leg?
When a student stays up studying vocabulary or reading textbooks until 2:00 AM, they are doing this
Answer: What is burning the midnight oil
When everyone sits around after a meeting to share juicy gossip, secrets, or dramatic news about someone's life.
What is spilling the tea?
To accept full responsibility for a big mistake you made and accept the negative consequences or criticism.
What is facing the music?
The noun form of reliable, used in the sentence: "I am questioning the ________ of your old car".
What is reliability?
Your weekend outdoor travel plans are completely this if a massive rainstorm makes everything uncertain or undecided.
Answer: What is up in the air?
To force yourself to finally do something difficult or unpleasant—like cleaning out a messy storage room after weeks of putting it off.
What is biting the bullet?
To not completely believe what someone says because they are always exaggerating or telling massive stories.
What is taking it with a grain of salt?
If you stay up playing video games until 3:00 AM, you will have to do this when your alarm goes off at 6:30 AM.
What is face the music?
This adjective form of compensate describes a nice gesture, like a store offering a free meal to a customer who had a bad experience.
What is compensatory?
Something that happens very rarely or almost never—like rain falling down in a dry desert.
Answer: What is once in a blue moon
When you guess or describe exactly what is causing a problem, your teacher might smile and say you did this.
What is hitting the nail on the head?
A huge, obvious problem—like bad class exam results or a broken window—that everyone knows about but avoids discussing because it is uncomfortable.
What is the elephant in the room?
She initially hated the idea of moving to a new apartment, but she experienced this once she saw the big kitchen.
What is a change of heart?
The noun form of entitled, which describes a person showing a massive sense of feeling special and deserving everything.
What is entitlement?
Sentence Fill-In: "He cleans his bedroom ________, so it is usually a complete mess".
What is once in a blue moon?
If you are totally undecided or unsure about choosing between buying a new laptop or a tablet for your online classes.
What is on the fence?
If both you and your friend forgot your umbrellas and it suddenly starts pouring rain, you both find yourselves here.
What is in the same boat?
Warning your students: "If you stay here too long trying to choose between two options, you might miss out on both opportunities entirely!"
What is staying on the fence?
The noun form of accountable, used to describe a workplace with a major lack of responsibility when mistakes happen.
What is accountability?