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TOEFL Vocab: Everyday Phrases
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english
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Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Movement blocked by traffic
glider
pick a fight
get caught in traffic jam
all ears
2. Be noticed by someone.
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3. Turn to and adopt (a course of action) so as to resolve a difficult situation.
patio
hear a pin drop
resort to
slush
4. Fail to recognize or state the true value of someone or something.
sell someone short
you and what army
rainy day
do justice
5. Strange - weird - odd; curly - twisted; stiff; sexually perverted
kinky
impeccable
snowdrift
jukebox
6. Let us go outside and fight
perilous
stranded
not make head or tail of
lets take it outside
7. Listening carefully - trying to hear everything When Dad mentioned hunting - I was all ears. I loved to hunt.
keep something under someone's hat
all ears
shoot the breeze
jukebox
8. Without much time - running out of time - in a hurry
give a slip
funnel
pressed for time
joking aside
9. Be cheerful and get on with life
raise your spirit
kinky
greasy spoon
snow job
10. Close call - near miss - miraculous rescue - escape with very little time to spare
pneumonia
restless
brag
norrow escape
11. Dance; hurry
sell someone short
shake a leg
at a pinch
repel
12. Cheaply - inexpensively
anti-establishment
out of work
for a song
all thumbs
13. To be good enough to do a particular job or to reach a particular standard: We'll give you a week's trial in the job to see how you ........... - .......... to - How will the Secretary General ......... to his new responsibilities?
out of work
measure up
jump the gun
flexitime
14. Keep secret - not tell He won`t say where he is going for his holiday. He wants .......his ..
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15. Unfounded fear of being unwell
garment bag
turn someone off
play hooky
hypochondria
16. Get the ball rolling
braces
have a memory like a sieve
turn someone off
get a move on
17. Criminal; person outside the protection of the law; fugitive
half-sister-brother
outlaw
measure up
at standstill
18. Making claims without any backup
even-tempered
hit the ceeling/roof
talk through his hat
set sail
19. Wearing glamorous clothes intended to create a striking impression
out of work
not make head or tail of
pick a fight
dress to kill
20. Make way through a narrow path
make a splash
keep your hair on
funnel
gangplank
21. Container used to hold water for washing oneself
ticket collector
fighting words
bathtub
at sixes and sevens
22. It is so unpleasant that you do not want to be near it - or it makes you feel ill - The smell r........ him. 2. [transitive] to make someone who is attacking you go away - by fighting them: The army was ready to ....... an attack. 3. [transitive] to
repel
keep something under someone's hat
get caught in traffic jam
ointment
23. Boy-girl or woman who has either the same mother or the same father as them
glider
slip off
infest
half-sister-brother
24. Act before the appropriate time.
ease up
jump the gun
raise your spirit
shoot off one's mouth
25. Time of trouble - time of need - emergency
flexitime
blunt
gale
rainy day
26. To make someone react less strongly to something by making them become used to it - ......... somebody to something - Does TV ........ people to violence? — d.........zation
keep something under someone's hat
knock the socks off
desensitize
at standstill
27. Make someone bored or repelled.
funnel
turn someone off
all ears
thaw
28. Something that helps you get clean. You stand under it and water sprays down on you.
shower head
pulled muscle
measure up
pneumonia
29. Opposed to the existing authorities or establishment
jump the gun
not make head or tail of
anti-establishment
play hooky
30. Anxious - worried - or excited: I was too .......to sleep. - brought to a state of great tension
get caught in traffic jam
wound up
do justice
sell someone short
31. A large piece of something without definite shape
bonnet
lump
gig
shake a leg
32. Shocked
braces
bathtub
thaw
go into shock
33. Movable ramp used when boarding or leaving a ship
hold him off
shoot the breeze
norrow escape
gangplank
34. Poor - lacking money; under pressure - troubled
pay through the nose
hard up
gangplank
half-sister-brother
35. Gale n. tempest - strong wind
anti-establishment
give a slip
gale
gangplank
36. Take off with ease or speed
slip off
contingency
rainy day
set in stone
37. Greatly impress - amaze - overwhelm (Slang)
chariot
ointment
knock the socks off
at her wits end
38. A system in which people work a particular number of hours each week or month - but can change the times at which they start and finish each day
slush
flexitime
pliers
hypochondria
39. Jobless
out of work
get a move on
sell someone short
have a memory like a sieve
40. Road crossing for those traveling by foot
clothes horse
pedastrian crossing
gangplank
infest
41. 9 to 5 - job where one works from 9:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M.
for a song
rain set in for
nine to five
pick a fight
42. Formal to consider or discuss something again: We need to ..... this proposal as soon as the budget is clearer.
all thumbs
pneumonia
revisit
kinky
43. One who exudes depression or sadness - one who dampens a light or happy atmosphere; killjoy
greasy spoon
doubt his chances
wet blanket
flunk
44. A job - especially one that does not last for a long time
gig
wound up
keep your hair on
out of work
45. Sense of right and wrong
gig
conscience
patio
resort to
46. Not understand at all.
snowdrift
not make head or tail of
wound up
stranded
47. Be completely at a loss as to what to do
biodegradable
infest
at her wits end
you and what army
48. Fail (a test - course - etc.); give up; drop out of school; give a student a failing grade student
flunk
shower cap
keep your hair on
set sail
49. No longer changeable; 'the agreement is not yet s............'
not make head or tail of
lump
set in stone
raise your spirit
50. Insulting or provocative words - especially of an ethnic - racial - or sexist nature - considered unacceptable or illegal by certain institutions.
blunt
glider
fighting words
sell someone short