Idioms
Burning the candle at both ends
doing too much
Cut down
Decrease it
under the weather
to feel sick
Piece of cake
really easy
cut off
Barking up the wrong tree
Get along
Be friendly
Cutting corners
to do something in the easiest, cheapest, or fastest way
Identifying the tenses
The train has just left the station.
Present perfect
Pick out
Choose
Raining cats and dogs
raining really hard
Look after
take care of
between a rock and a hard place
having two very bad choices, in a very difficult situation
Filling out with suitable word
Jack had ... (have) her homework when her parents asked him.
had
The brother always used to pick on his sister
Bother, tease
The discounted price sale ended today and I just missed the boat on making a great deal
missed an opportunity
What is, "Keep a Straight Face".
This idioms means, to try not to smile or laugh.
Go through the sentence and change their tenses as directed.
Robert ate all the cookies. (Present Perfect Tense)
Robert has eaten all the cookies.
I'm going to hold off taking my vacation due to bad weather
delay, postpone
Our handyman is a jack of all trades. We use him for many different projects around the house and garage.
someone who can do many different types of things
That boy has been playing soccer all day. He is going to wear out soon
fatigue, tire
A picture is worth a thousand words
better to show than tell
be or become self-reliant or independent.
She is not feeling fine, she thinks she is about to come down with the flu
begin to suffer from a specified illness.