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French Idioms - Other
Gap-fill exercise from www.ielanguages.com
Fill in all the gaps, then press "Check" to check your answers. Use the "Hint" button to get a free letter if an answer is giving you trouble. You can also click on the "[?]" button to get a clue.
1. prendre la
[?]
d'escampette - to leave quickly
2. tourner autour du
[?]
- to beat around the bush
3. tirer les plans sur la
[?]
- to count one's chickens before they have hatched
4. ce n'est pas le
[?]
- it's nothing to write home about / it's no great fortune
5. être au
[?]
et au
[?]
- to be in two places at once
6. manger les
[?]
par la racine - to push up daisies, to be dead and buried
7. avoir des
[?]
dans la poche - to be stingy, cheap
8. faire le
[?]
- to take a long weekend
9. tirer le
[?]
par la queue - to barely get by, have a hard time
10. faire d'une
[?]
deux coups - to kill two birds with one stone
11. raconter des histoires à
[?]
debout - to tell tales
12. tirer son
[?]
du jeu - to get out of a difficult situation
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