Idioms - Final Exam PDF

# Idioms Page 245-254 ## Idioms Page 245 | Number | Idiom | Arabic Translation | |---|---|---| | 1 | All I have is the shirt on my back | مفلس | | 2 | Tom is a pain in the neck | لقمة في الزور (خنيق) | | 3 | Let me be | غور من وشي / حل عن سمايات | | 4 | He pushes my buttons | متعصبنيش | | 5 | He i...

# Idioms Page 245-254 ## Idioms Page 245 | Number | Idiom | Arabic Translation | |---|---|---| | 1 | All I have is the shirt on my back | مفلس | | 2 | Tom is a pain in the neck | لقمة في الزور (خنيق) | | 3 | Let me be | غور من وشي / حل عن سمايات | | 4 | He pushes my buttons | متعصبنيش | | 5 | He is yellow | جبان / خواف | | 6 | Tom is one in a million | مفيش منه اتنين | | 7 | Old habits die hard | الطبع غلاب | | 8 | It (the car) died on me | ديل الكلب عمره ما يتعدل | | 9 | Mary is vice under the guise of goodness | في ظاهره الرحمة وفي باطنه العذاب | | 10 | Third time is lucky | من برة هلا هلا ومن جوة يعلم الله | | 11 | This is the chance of a lifetime | الثالثة ثابتة | | 12 | He is tied to his mother's (or wife's) apron strings | ابن امه / بتاع مراته | | 13 | It is a million to one chance | مستحيل | | 14 | Mike is really a good catch | لقطة | | 15 | I'll keep you in my prayers | البقاء لله | | 16 | I am poor as a church mouse | مفلس | | 17 | My reputation is on the line | سمعتي على المحك | | 18 | He is a Jack of all trades | بيفهم في كل حاجة | | 19 | All I have is my good name | بتاع كله | ## Idioms Page 246 | Number | Idiom | Arabic Translation | |---|---|---| | 20 | I’ll take it to my grave | سرك في بير | | 21 | It goes without saying that he is a thief | من البديهي | | 22 | His name is on the danger list | واضح زي الشمس | | 23 | She looked daggers at me | بيودع / بيموت | | 24 | The old man has one foot in the grave | ينظر شذرا | | 25 | He is up to his neck/ears in debts | رجله والقبر | | 26 | I am on good/bad terms with my boss | غرقان في الديون | | 27 | The lawyer’s defence put her in the clear | على وفاق مع / على خلاف مع | | 28 | She still lives in the bygone age | طلعه زي الشعرة من العجين | | 29 | I feel under the weather today | دقة قديمة | | 30 | My worst fears were realised when I saw the exam questions | عيان | | 31 | His appearance sounds like a recipe for a disaster | اللي كنت خايف منه حصل | | 32 | He is afraid of his own shadow | نحس | | 33 | What he said left me in the middle of nowhere | بيخاف من خياله | | 34 | Stop playing the role of God | تايه / حيران | | 35 | In our conversation, I let the cat out of the bag | مش عارف راسه من رجليه | | 36 | His question put the cat among the pigeons | بطل تحكم على الناس | | 37 | Tom’s marriage is on the rocks | وقع بلسانه | | 38 | I am stuck between a rock and a hard place | عك الدنيا | | 39 | I gave him a rocket for his behaviour | جوازه على محك | | 40 | She has a heart of stone | أنا بين حلين أحلاهما مر | ## Idioms Page 247 | Number | Idiom | Arabic Translation | |---|---|---| | 41 | He is stone dead | مات وشبع موت | | 42 | My house is only a stone’s throw from the beach | على مرمى حجر من | | 43 | He is digging his own grave | يحفر قبره بيده | | 44 | He finally found his tongue and told me the secret | اخيرا انحلت عقدة لسانه | | 45 | He gave a tongue-in-cheek description of their first meeting | وصف كوميدي / فكاهي | | 46 | Physics is my cup of tea | لعبتي | | 47 | They left the company like rats deserting the sinking ship | يفر بشكل جماعي | | 48 | She looked so down in the mouth | حزين / مكتئب | | 49 | She won’t come. She still has cold feet | لسا متردد | | 50 | Every dog has its day | لكل منا يوم سعده | | 51 | This radio is a dog | قارفني | | 52 | Tom was dressed up like a dog’s dinner | يلبس ملابس لا تتناسب مع المناسبة | | 53 | I’m not an early bird | مش بيصحى بدري | | 54 | I am not made of money | مش قاعدلكم على بنك | | 55 | He put all his money on a horse | خاطر بفلوسه كلها | | 56 | I still smell a rat | الفار بيلعب في عبي | | 57 | He got a monkey on his back | مدمن مخدرات | | 58 | When I told him the news, he gave me a poker face | وش خشب | | 59 | He has a big head | عاقل / مخه كبير | | 60 | He has an airhead | تافه / دماغه فاضية | | 61 | You are dead meat | رحت في داهية | ## Idioms Page 248 | Number | Idiom | Arabic Translation | |---|---|---| | 62 | He is in hot water | واقع في مشاكل | | 63 | He is barking up the wrong tree | يختار الاختيار الخطأ | | 64 | Once a cheat, always a cheat | اللي يخون مرة يخون على طول | | 65 | There is more fish in the sea | خيرها في غيرها | | 66 | Take a walk in my shoes, before you talk about it | يروح قرد يجي غزال | | 67 | John kicked the bucket | حط نفسك مكاني | | 68 | He is bull-headed | مات | | 69 | He got canned | شخص عندي | | 70 | Go, break a leg | دماغه ناشفة | | 71 | He ran like a bat out of hell | اترفد من شغله | | 72 | She does not know chalk from cheese | حظا موفقًا | | 73 | He can eat a horse | مذعور / خايف | | 74 | He eats like a horse | ميعرفش الالف من كوز الدرة | | 75 | Don’t give me that long face | ميت من الجوع | | 76 | When hell is frozen | مفجوع | | 77 | Money doesn’t grow on trees | في المشمش / مستحيل | | 78 | It is like taking candy from a baby | انا مش بلاقي الفلوس في الشارع | | 79 | This is a good / bad buy | حاجة سهلة أوي | | 80 | He smokes like a chimney | يستاهل ثمنه / ميستاهلش اللي اتدفع فيه | | 81 | If your workers are out of track, give them a sack | حريقة سجاير / مدخن شره | | 82 | He was shaking in his shoes | يرفد | ## Idioms Page 249 | Number | Idiom | Arabic Translation | |---|---|---| | 83 | The grass is always greener on the other side | يبص على اللي عند غيره | | 84 | He is green | ساذج | | 85 | He hits the books | دحيح | | 86 | He cooks the books | بيزور الدفاتر | | 87 | She was burning the midnight oil | سهران بيذاكر طول الليل | | 88 | A tree is known by its fruit | الكتاب بيبان من عنوانه | | 89 | One man’s garbage is another man’s gold | مصائب قوم عند قوم فوائد | | 90 | Happiness is just round the corner | الفرج قريب | | 91 | You are casting pearls before Swine | تدي الحاجة للي ميقدرهاش | | 92 | This is a leap in the dark | مخاطرة | | 93 | He robbed Peter to pay Paul | جه يكحلها عماها | | 94 | He invited Tom, Dick and Harry | كل من هب ودب | | 95 | She put my life at stake | وضعت حياتي في خطر | | 96 | Tom got the wrong end of the stick | يفهم الموضوع بالكامل غلط | | 97 | Henry is a good old stick | عشرة عمر | | 98 | Tom is a fifth wheel | ملوش لازمة | | 99 | He uses strong language | وجوده زي عدمه | | 100 | He is an armchair traveller / critic | إذا حضر لا يؤثر وإذا غاب لا يفتقد | | 101 | Don’t worry, you’ll take to it like a duck to water | لسانه طويل | | 102 | He is the Bill Gates of our class | هبيد / فتاي | | 103 | She is more royal than the queen | المسألة سهلة أوي لا تقلق | ## Idioms Page 250 | Number | Idiom | Arabic Translation | |---|---|---| | 104 | He never runs out of batteries | مبيهمدش / مبيفصلش / فراك | | 105 | She lives behind the times | دقة قديمة | | 106 | You have to keep your feelings under check | تحت السيطرة | | 107 | He is one of the has-beens  | راحت عليه / أفل نجمه | | 108 | You have to keep it under your hat | سرك في بير / يحفظ السر | | 109 | He was caught red-handed | متلبساً | | 110 | Pigs might fly | في المشمش | | 111 | He is driving me up the wall | متعصبنيش | | 112 | I dig it | عاجبني / فاهم / هارش | | 113 | Unfortunately, our plan died the death | يفشل فشلاً ذريعاً | | 114 | I’ll raise hell against them | أيامكم سودا معايا | | 115 | You have to keep a low profile | خليك في حالك / أمشي جنب الحيط | | 116 | He has been a thorn in the side of the family for years. | وصمة عار / عاق | | 117 | We fought tooth and nail to get our plans accepted | يبذل قصارى جهده | | 118 | Tom doesn’t have much up top | عقله على قده | | 119 | Jack has a strong stomach | قلبة جامد | | 120 | I only slept in snatches during the night | نوم متقطع | | 121 | He talks the talk, but he never walks the walk | بق على الفاضي / كلامنجي / كلام ومفيش فعل | | 122 | It is raining cats and dogs | تمطر بغزارة / تمطر كأفواه القرب | | 123 | He is building castles in the air | عايش في الاوهام / يبني قصوراً في الهواء | | 124 | Tom is a snake in the grass | خبيث / لئيم | ## Idioms Page 251 | Number | Idiom | Arabic Translation | |---|---|---| | 125 | She always goes by the book | يمشي زي ما الكتاب بيقول | | 126 | She is right in my book | من وجهة نظري | | 127 | She is a golf nut | مهووس بالحاجة | | 128 | She is the Cinderella of this place | أنا مش الحيطة المايلة بتاعتكم | | 129 | He is the Shylock of this place | مش كلكم تيجو عليا | | 130 | It will be like open sesame for me | المفتري / الظالم | | 131 | They are different as chalk and cheese | طاقة القدر اتفتحتله | | 132 | Torn got Dutch courage in the fight | الزهر لعب معاه | | 133 | He looked very blue yesterday | مختلفين تماماً | | 134 | I had my back to the wall all the time | مكتئب / حزين / تعيس | | 135 | He goes with / against the flow | بيدافع عن نفسه طول الوقت | | 136 | He had a frog in his throat | يمشي مع التيار | | 137 | He is a frog | يمشي عكس التيار | | 138 | She has friends in high places | صوته مبحوح | | 139 | The scene made her hair stand on end | عنده التهاب في الاحبال الصوتية | | 140 | He talked to us like a Dutch uncle | فرنسي الجنسية | | 141 | He passed the exam with flying colours | يعرف ناس واصلين | | 142 | People were going down like flies | مذعور | | 143 | I know the place like the back of my hand | يعلي صوته ويوبخ اللي قدامه | | 144 | I will go Dutch with them in the restaurant | بنجاح باهر | | 145 | I think we’re just fogging the issue by discussing all these points | ناس تموت بأعداد كبيرة | ## Idioms Page 252 | Number | Idiom | Arabic Translation | |---|---|---| | 146 | He is an old fogey | دقة قديمة | | 147 | What he did was a hard act to follow | عايش أيام زمان | | 148 | He is living in a fool’s paradise | عمل اللي ميتعملش | | 149 | Jack was nobody’s fool when it came to money | اتعب من سيأتي بعده | | 150 | I think it is better to draw a veil over the story | عايش في مية البطيخ | | 151 | The whole story is shrouded in mystery | عايش في ال لا لا لاند | | 152 | She took the veil last year | متطلعش عبيط | | 153 | The teacher’s advice gave me food for thought | ميعرفش ابوه | | 154 | Mary is off her food | نقفل على الموضوع | | 155 | He has two left feet | يكتنفه الغموض | | 156 | Jane has both feet on the ground | التحق بالدير / أصبحت راهبة | | 157 | He got his foot in the door | مسألة تدعو للتأمل | | 158 | The problem of education has become a political football | نفسها مسدودة | | 159 | I decided to get the job done, come hell or high water | غبي / مخه متركب شمال | | 160 | He didn’t have the guts to confess | شخص عقلاني / واقعي | | 161 | Our army is on a war footing | حصل على أول وظيفة | | 162 | He missed his footing | حط رجله على أول الطريق | | 163 | Darwin’s theory rocked / shaked the scientific establishment to its foundation | مشكلة تثير جدلًا سياسيًا | | 164 | He is a fruitcake | مهما حصل | | 165 | Her criticism hit the nail on the head | معندوش شجاعة | ## Idioms Page 253 | Number | Idiom | Arabic Translation | |---|---|---| | 166 | He plays it cool | بيتقل علينا | | 167 | I got it straight from the horse’s mouth | من مصدر موثوق | | 168 | He has got horse sense | عنده ذكاء فطري / فطرة سليمة | | 169 | His advice is just a lot of hot air | كلام فارغ / فشنك | | 170 | Get Tom to look at your car; he is an old hand with engines | صاحب خبرة | | 171 | The news of winning all that money took her breath away | عقدت المفاجئة لسانه | | 172 | The big salary made her mouth water | قلبه كان هيقف من الفرحه | | 173 | His friend is a bad influence; she leads him by the nose | يسيل لعابه | | 174 | There is a lot of work to do, everyone must pull their weight | زي الخاتم في صباعها | | 175 | His name is on the tip of my tongue, but I just can’t recall it | قوم هز طولك / اتحرك من مكانك | | 176 | I hope she sees the sense before it is too late | على طرف لساني | | 177 | Tom got out of the frying pan into the fire | يعقل | | 178 | Production came to a full stop when the generator blew up | من سيء لأسوأ | | 179 | Let’s open a window, it is like a furnace in here! | يتوقف تماما | | 180 | I am going to take the matter further and discuss this with the managers | حر جدا | | 181 | Nothing can be further from the truth like what he said | هصعد المسألة | | 182 | The government ordered the suspension of the elections until further notice | كداب كدب الإبل | | 183 | It was futile to continue the negotiations | حتى اشعار آخر | ## Idioms Page 254 | Number | Idiom | Arabic Translation | |---|---|---| | 184 | It is a pie in the sky | في المشمش / مستحيل | | 185 | He has a finger in every pie | بتاع كله / بيفهم في كل حاجة | | 186 | In a nutshell, this is a catastrophe (catastrophe: كارثة) | باختصار شديد | | 187 | He said he would help and he was as good as his word | طلع قد كلامه | | 188 | The office was at sixes and sevens | في حالة من الفوضى / تضرب تقلب | | 189 | If you invite him, he’ll come at the drop of a hat | يجي في لحظتها | | 190 | Their insulting behaviour left us all with a bad taste in our mouths | داخلنا شعور سيء | | 191 | He is working behind the scenes | في حلقنا غصة | | 192 | The thieves were caught in the act | خلف الكواليس | | 193 | I tried to bring Tom down to earth | متلبس | | 194 | The atmosphere in the hotel was free and easy | يخليه واقعي | | 195 | He gave the speech offhand | يفكر بعقله | | 196 | His bank statement shows that he is in the red | يرتجل | ### **Extra Vocab** | Item | Arabic translation | |---|---| | Missing link | حلقة مفقودة | | Improvise / Ad-lib | يرتجل | | Sensitive | حساس | | Sensible | منظقي / عاقل |