Задание

Look at the following idioms. What do you think they might mean? Match the idioms with their meanings.

  • Объекты 1
    • The calm before the storm
    • Chasing rainbows
    • To steal someone’s thunder
    • A walking disaster
    • Quake in your boots
    • To be snowed under
    • Where there’s smoke, there’s fire
    • Flood in / out
  • Объекты 2
    • A peaceful and quiet period before a period of activity or trouble
    • Following unrealistic goals or dreams
    • To take credit or praise for something which someone else did
    • A person who can’t do anything correctly, a clumsy person
    • To shake from fear
    • To have so much work that you can’t do anything else. You have to finish the work.
    • Part of what’s said must be true because a rumour must start from somewhere
    • Many people moving in or out of something