Q.1. Write the meaning of the following idioms and make sentence:-
1. Couch potato
6. Make mountain out of a molehill
2. All bark and no bite 7. Under someone's spell
3. By hook or by crook 8. Zero tolerance
4. Door swings both ways 9. To set the world on fire
5. Eye for an eye
10.Take a hike
Answers
Answer:
1) couch potato meaning
a lazy person who spends a lot of time sitting and watching television and not doing any other work
sentence : Get up go find a job and start earn something now, don't lie around like a couch potato, you've grown up now.
2) Make mountain out of a molehill
to over-reactive
sentence : You're making a mountain out of a molehill.
3) All bark and no bite
Meaning. threatening, aggressive, but not willing to engage in a fight. full of talk, but low on action.
sentence : She said that she will call the police if those people ever bother her again, but she didn't. She's all bark and no bite.”
4) Under someone's spell
meaning : Fascinated or influenced by someone
sentence : The entire audience was under a spell as they watched the performance.
5) By hook or by crook
meaning : determine to do
sentence : They intend to get their way, by hook or by crook.
6) Zero tolerance
meaning : A policy or attitude of accepting absolutely none of some kind of behavior or activity.
sentence : Our dad has always had zero tolerance for us skipping our chores or homework.
7) Door swings both ways
meaning : the same principle or argument applies to both sides of a situation.
sentence : American food has borrowed many influences from Japan, but Japanese food has also been influenced by America.
8) To set the world on fire
meaning : to be very successful and attract a lot of attention
sentence : The company is doing all right, but they haven't exactly set the world on fire.
9) Eye for an eye
meaning : retaliation, justice, revenge, vengeance
sentence : An eye for an eye is no way to run a civilised justice system.
10) Take a hike
meaning : go away; to leave or depart.
Sentence : I wish that pest would just take a hike.
Answer:
1. couch potato
meaning- a person who takes little or no exercise and watches a lot of television.
sentence-" Chris.. Its not good to be a couch potato."
6. Make mountain out of a molehill.
meaning- Making a mountain out of a molehill is an idiom referring to over-reactive, histrionic behaviour where a person makes too much of a minor issue.
sentence- Don't worry, it is just a small injury, you don't have to make a mountain out of a molehill.
2. All bark and no bite
meaning- threatening, aggressive, but not willing to engage in a fight. full of talk, but low on action.
sentence- She's all bark and no bite.
7. Under someone's spell
meaning- Fascinated or influenced by someone, like under someone.
sentence- Her son is under her spell.
3. By hook or by hook
meaning- by any possible means, any means possible should be taken to accomplish a goal.
sentence- Polly was determined to get an A on the exam by hook or by crook.”
8. zero tolerance
meaning- refusal to accept antisocial behaviour, typically by strict and uncompromising application of the law.
sentence- I wish there was zero tolerance for crimes committed against women.
4. Door swings both ways
meaning- If you say that thedoor swings both ways, you mean that the same principle or argument applies to both sides of a situation.
sentence- "You don't contact me either. The door swings both ways you know!"
9. to set the world on fire
meaning- do something remarkable or sensational.
sentence- "the film hasn't exactly set the world on fire"
5. eye for an eye
meaning- the meaning of the principle Eye for an Eye is that a person who has been injured by another person returns the offending action to the originator in compensation, or that an authority does so on behalf of the injured person.
sentence- His father and he sees eye to eye on most things.
10. Take a hike
meaning- go away (used as an expression of irritation or annoyance).
sentence- Maybe you should take a hike.