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3-U2 Metaphors

Match metaphors with their meaning

MetaphorMeaning
I could eat a horse I am very hungry
It all went pear shaped to go wrong
It’s no skin off my nose it doesn’t affect me negatively (but it might affect others)
She is an open book she has nothing to hide
He wears his heart on his sleeve he shows his feelings readily
These are the dog days of summer it’s too hot but do anything but be lazy and stay cool
You’re building castles in the air you’re making unrealistic plans
I was a million miles away my mind was wandering
He marches to his own drummer he has his own way of doing things
Splitting hairs Paying too much attention to insignificant details
Hit the books To study very intensively
This place is a zoo to describe a chaotic place, implying that the people inside are behaving like animals
Heart of gold a way of describing someone who is very kind and generous
To get out of hand to become out of control
To hit the sack to go to bed
To feel under the weather to feel sick
Speak of the devil what someone says when a person who was the subject of conversation joins the conversation circle
To bite the bullet to do something unpleasant quickly and with force, so as to have it be over quickly
To cut corners to do something poorly so as to save time or money
To pull someone’s leg to lie to someone as a way to teasing them
To wrap your head around something to take time to understand a difficult or hard-to-believe concept
A day late and a dollar short a way of describing something that is inadequate for solving a given problem
To get caught red-handed to get caught in the middle of doing something illegal or forbidden
The elephant in the room a topic that everybody is thinking about but nobody is talking about
Hit the nail on the head to get something exactly right
Created by: MisterDot
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