English Idioms 3

Nobody expected it. The news of his arrest came out of the ________.

1. black
2. blue
3. clouds
4. sky

Stop crying, Sarah. You have to ________ yourself together and stop thinking about him.

1. come
2. pick
3. pull
4. push

In my ________, driving too fast is very irresponsible.

1. bag
2. book
3. heart
4. novel

My heart ________ when I realized that I would never see her again.

1. dived
2. rose
3. sank
4. swam

He was walking to and ________ nervously.

1. fro
2. from
3. there
4. thither

I like working in the ________ of night, when everyone is asleep.

1. black
2. dark
3. dead
4. deep

I never read the newspaper from ________.

1. back to back
2. cover to cover
3. page to page
4. side to side

He knows everything about love in films but ________ to nothing about real life.

1. all
2. almost
3. near
4. next

English was difficult for me at first but now I'm beginning to get the ________ of it.

1. feeling
2. hang
3. point
4. sense

The virus destroyed all the data in my computer. I'll have to start from ________.

1. again
2. blank
3. eraser
4. scratch