Задание

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

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

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