Idioms 1
Moises moonwalked backwards into Josue’s locker causing a giant waterfall of slime to fall from Josue’s gym shoes. Moises fell in the slime but tried to pretend it was a breakdancing move. Just then a stampede of sixth grade girls came running down the hall and trampled Moises. He was left in a pool of slime with Hello Kitty prints from the bottom of the girls’ shoes all over his face. Poor Moises, that was really…
adding insult to injury
When Sumina broke her mother’s favorite dish she decided to talk about the good grade she is getting in Literacy and how beautiful her mom’s dress was. Sumina was…
beating around the bush
Kathwee, Stefany and May were talking about Anthony’s dreamy brown eyes all morning. When he walked into class, Gigi said…
Speak of the devil
Jonathan decided to wait until the last day of the semester to do all his work. He tried to write 4 papers, make up six tests and do 531 journal entries during a half hour detention. Jonathan…
bit off more than he could chew
Steven was supposed to make a hamburger, but meat was too expensive, so he made it out of playdough. When he served it to his father it was not delicious. It was a bad idea to…
cut corners
The assignment is due tomorrow and G still isn’t done at 9pm. G will need to
burn the midnight oil
When Alicia yelled,”There’s a fire in the hall,” we all ran out of the building even though we didn’t see any smoke or fire because we….
Gave her the benefit of the doubt
Mr. Pecina dreams of being a YouTube rap star, but he raps like an old white man and all his songs are about how much he likes tuna sandwiches for lunch. What idiomatic advice do you have for Mr. Pecina?
Don't quit your day job
Mr. Snow called Christopher down to the office for stealing his Barney costume and running through the lunchroom singing, “I love you, you love me, we’re a
Wildcat family…” But 6th period saw a purple tail sticking out under Bryan’s sweatshirt. Mr. Snow is…
Barking up the wrong tree
•When Beung asked a girl out on a date he dressed up nice, bought her flowers and candy, and planned a nice restaurant and a movie to take her to. Beung went…
the whole nine yards
Hana used the whole box of Kleenex, but she still came to school. She did all her work, but you could tell by looking at her that she was...
feeling under the weather
Marco tried to make an exploding volcano for the science fair, but instead of exploding it melted into the shape of a big kissy face emoji. Marco needs to…
go back to the drawing board
Erika and Ashley did their parts of the project, but Abril is too busy eating Takis and watching telenovelas to finish hers. They have tried everything to get her to finish, but they know Abril is the only one who can finish because…
the ball is in her court
Miss Teresa says the books dance on the shelves every time she plays the song “Happy” on her phone, but Vanessa saw Miss Teresa drink 6 cups of coffee and three energy drinks today, so I would…
take it with a grain of salt
My cousin missed the bus to work, so he got to work an hour late. Because of this, he wasn’t in the twin towers when they fell on 9/11. Missing the bus was…
a blessing in disguise