Idioms Exercises – Part 93

.Fill in the blank of the following story with appropriate words or phrases

Eat humble pie
A pig in a poke
A flash in the pan
Pour oil on troubled waters
The sword of Damocles

. ………………………… The threat of a cut in funding is hanging over the Opera House like
. ………………………… My husband’s always arguing with my father, and I’m the one who has
. …………………. Our start to the season was just
.He will have to ……………… at training after being sent off for punching
. ……………………. The unwary were apt to buy a

:Answers

a sword of Damocles/ to pour oil on troubled waters/ a flash in the pan/ eat humble pie/ pig in the poke