An Idiom a Day Will Help Keep the Boredom In Schooling Away #1 What are idioms? Dictionary A- noun- form of expression peculiar to one language; dialect Dictionary B- noun- A form of expression whose understood meaning is not expressed by the exact meanings of the individual words, as to get along with; the language peculiar to a people; a variety or form of a language; a dialect; the individual terminology or manner of expression characteristic of a certain group, profession, or the like. There are 180 lessons provided, which will allow you to use one a day to help keep the boredom in schooling away. This should be a fun time of the day, where the children laugh and joke about the idiom, and their perception of what it means. 1. Have the students draw a picture of what these words should mean together beside A. 2. You can either have your students look up the idioms meaning, or you can provide it to them after they have drawn their drawings for item A. 3. Have them write a sentence using the idiom appropriately on the lines provided. 4. Now have them draw a picture using the sentence they wrote, and the actual meaning of the idiom beside
1. Ace up Your Sleeve
2. Add Fuel to the Fire
3. Air Your Dirty Laundry in Public
4. All Ears
5. All Thumbs
6. Ants in Your Pants
7. Apple of Your Eye
8. As the Crow Flies
9. At the Drop of a Hat
10. At the End of Your Rope
11. Back to Square One
12. Backseat Driver
13. Bark Is Worse than Your Bite
14. Bark Up the Wrong Tree
15. Beat a Dead Horse
16. Beauty Is in the Eye of the Beholder
17. Bed of Roses
18. Beggars Can t Be Choosers
19. Better Half
20. Between a Rock and a Hard Place
21. Birds of a Feather Flock Together
22. Bite the Dust
23. Bite the Hand that Feeds You
24. Bite Your Tongue
25. Black Sheep of the Family
26. Blood Is Thicker than Water
27. Break a Leg
28. Bring Home the Bacon
29. Busy as a Beaver
30. Butterflies in the Stomach
31. By the Skin of Your Teeth
32. Call It a Day
33. Calm Before the Storm
34. Casts Pearls Before Swine
35. Cast the First Stone
36. Cat Got Your Tongue?
37. Catch More Flies with Honey than with Vinegar
38. Catch Someone Red-Handed
39. Catch You Later
40. Champ at the Bit
41. Cheek by Jowl
42. Chew Over an Idea
43. Chew Someone Out
44. Chew the Fat
45. Chew Up the Scenery
46. Chew Your Cud
47. Chicken Feed
48. Chill Out
49. Chip off the Old Block
50. Chip on Your Shoulder
51. Chips Are Down
52. Clam Up
53. Clean as a Whistle
54. Clean Bill of Health
55. Clear the Decks
56. Climb the Walls
57. Cold Feet
58. Cold Turkey
59. Come Again
60. Cool It
61. Crocodile Tears
62. Cross that Bridge When You Come to It
63. Cry over Spilled Milk
64. Cry Wolf
65. Cut the Mustard
66. Dead as a Doornail
67. Dog-Eat-Dog World
68. Don t Count Your Chickens Before They Hatch
69. Down the Hatch
70. Draw the Line At
71. Drive You Crazy
72. Drop You Like a Hot Potato
73. Easy as Pie
74. Easy as Rolling off a Log
75. Eat Crow
76. Eat You Out of House and Home
77. Eat Your Hat
78. Egg on Your Face
79. Elbow Grease
80. Every Cloud Has a Silver Lining
81. Fair-Weather Friend
82. Famous Last Words
83. Feather in Your Cap
84. Fight Tooth and Nail
85. Fit as a Fiddle
86. Fly by the Seat of Your Pants
87. Foam at the Mouth
88. For the Birds
89. Full of Beans
90. Full of Hot Air
91. Get Away With Murder
92. Get into the Swing of Things
93. Get off the Hook
94. Get Out of My Face
95. Get to the Bottom of Something
96. Get Under Your Skin
97. Get Up on the Wrong Side of the Bed
98. Give Me Five
99. Go Along for the Ride
100. Go Fly a Kite
101. Gone to Pot
102. Goody-Two-Shoes
103. Green Thumb
104. Handwriting on the Wall
105. Hang in There
106. Hanging by a Thread
107. Hard Nut to Crack
108. Have a Bone to Pick with You
109. Have Your Cake and Eat It Too
110. Head Honcho
111. Head in the Clouds
112. Highway Robbery
113. Hit the Hay
114. Hit the Spot
115. Hold Your Horses
116. Horse of a Different Color
117. If the Shoe Fits, Wear It
118. In Hot Water
119. In the Driver s Seat
120. Jack-of-all Trades
121. Jump Off the Deep End
122. Keep a Stiff Upper Lip
123. Keep Up with the Joneses
124. Keep Your Fingers Crossed
125. Kick the Bucket
126. Lay an Egg
127. Left Out in the Cold
128. Let the Chips Fall where They May
129. Like a Bump on a Log
130. Live High off the Hog
131. Look down Your Nose at Someone
132. Mind over Matter
133. Monkey Business
134. Mum s the Word
135. Needle in a Haystack
136. Nickel-and-Dime
137. No Spring Chicken
138. Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained
139. Off Your Rocker
140. Old Hat
141. Old Wives Tale
142. On a Shoestring
143. On the Ball
144. On the Fence
145. On the Hot Seat
146. On the Spur of the Moment
147. One-Track Mind
148. Out in the Boondocks
149. Out Like a Light
150. Out of the Frying Pan and into the Fire
151. Out of the Mouths of Babes
152. Over Your Head
153. Pass the Hat
154. Piece of Cake
155. Play Second Fiddle
156. Play with Fire
157. Power behind the Throne
158. Pull Up Stakes
159. Pull Yourself Together
160. Put Your Finger on Something
161. Rats Abandoning a Sinking Ship
162. Read Between the Lines
163. Real McCoy
164. Red Tape
165. Rotten Apple Spoils the Barrel
166. Run Circles around Someone
167. Saved by the Bell
168. Saw Logs
169. Scrape the Bottom of the Barrel
170. See Eye to Eye
171. Settle an Old Score
172. Shake a Leg
173. Shape Up or Ship Out
174. Show Must Go On
175. Sick as a Dog
176. Take the Bull by the Horns
177. That s the Way the Ball Bounces
178. Up Against the Wall
179. Upset the Applecart
180. Water over the Dam