Vocabulary Warm-up – Part 35

: Idioms Exercise 2

. ……………………… N1. Her refusal to answer his phone calls was a red rag to the
A. tiger
B. elephant
C. bull

.N2. After wasting two hours searching for the cat, we realized we were on a wild ……………………… chase
A. cat
B. goose
C. crow

. ……………………… N3. When the business failed, years of hard work went up in
A. vain
B. smoke
C. smog

.N4. He is every ……………………. a gentleman
A. ounce
B. pound
C. inch

: ANSWERS

.N1. Her refusal to answer his phone calls was a red rag to the bull
.N2. After wasting two hours searching for the cat, we realized we were on a wild goose chase
.N3. When the business failed, years of hard work went up in smoke
.N4. He is every inch a gentleman