Given below are jumbled sentences. Working in groups, rearrange the words in each sentence to form correct sentences.
You will find that each sentence contains an idiomatic expression that you have come across in the lesson. Underline the idiom and write down its meaning. Then use you dictionary to check the meaning.
(i) Stop/and tell me/beating about/what you want/the bush
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(ii) don’t pay/if you/attention/you might/the wrong train/to the announcement/board
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Idiom: _______________________________________________________________
(iii) The village/tried/the crime/on the young woman/to pin
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Idiom: _______________________________________________________________
(iv) Bepin Babu/orders to/telling people/under/loved/doctor’s/eat early/that he was
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Idiom: _______________________________________________________________
(v) the student/The teacher/his eyebrows/when/said that/all their lessons/raised/they had revised
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Idiom: _______________________________________________________________