Question

Given below are some jumbled sentences. Working in groups, rearrange the words
in each sentence to form correct sentences. You will find that each sentence
contains idiomatic expression that you have come across in the lesson. Underline
the idiom and write down its meaning. Then use your dictionary to check the
meaning. One sentence has been worked out for you as an example:
Jumbled sentence: vanished/ The car/ seemed to/ into thin/have/ air.
Ans: The carseemed to have vanished into thin air.
Idiom: vanished into thin air: disappeared or vanished in a mysterious way
1. Stop/ and tell me/ beating about/ what you want/ the bush
Ans:
Idiom:.....
don't pay/ If you/ attention, you might/ the wrong train/to the
annoucement/board
Ans: ................................................................................
Idiom:
3. The villagers/ tried/the crime/ on the young woman/ to pin
Ans:
Idiom:..
4. Bepin Babu/ orders to/ telling people/under/loved / doctor's/ eat early/ that
he was
Ans: ****
Idiom: ----------**********************************​

Answer 1

Answer:

1. Stop beating about the bush and tell me what you want.

Idiom : beating about the bush

~ discuss a matter without coming to the point.

2. If you don't pay attention to the announcement you might board the wrong train.

Idiom : pay attention

~ To be attentive to, become aware of, or be responsive (to someone or something).

3. The villagers tried to pin the crime on the young woman

Idiom : pin (something) on (one)

~ To blame someone of a crime or a wrong doing of which they are innocent.

4. Bepin Babu loved telling people that he was under doctor's order to eat early.

Idiom : Under doctor's orders

~ If you are under orders to do something, you have been told to do it by someone in authority.

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