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Idiomatic expressions & collocations CEFR B2 Topic: Idiomatic expressions and collocations across work, study, travel, health, technology, relationships, money and the environment

Idioms and Collocations in Everyday Situations

What this tests: fixed expressions — idioms, and the words that natural English puts together (collocations).

Instructions

For questions 1–8, choose the word (A, B, C or D) that best completes the idiom or collocation in each sentence.

1. After months of training, finishing the marathon in under four hours felt like a piece of for her now that she was so fit.

A — slice B — cake C — pie D — bread

2. She crammed all weekend, trying to up on the lectures she had missed earlier in the term.

A — pick B — make C — catch D — get

3. By booking the flights and the hotel together, we managed to two birds with one stone.

A — catch B — kill C — hit D — strike

4. I've had a terrible cold all week and I'm feeling really under the today.

A — climate B — forecast C — weather D — sky

5. The prototype kept overheating, so the engineers had to go back to the board and rethink the whole design.

A — planning B — drawing C — sketch D — design

6. After years of not speaking, the two brothers finally agreed to bury the and start over.

A — weapon B — sword C — hatchet D — axe

7. With rent rising every year, it's getting harder for young families to make meet.

A — ties B — ends C — edges D — sides

8. The council's decision to ban single-use plastics is seen as a step in the right .

A — direction B — path C — route D — way

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