Free Exercises: Grammar, Vocabulary & Phrases
Level: Elementary Intermediate Advanced
Exercise: Grammar Vocabulary Phrases
Advanced Vocabulary: Colour Idioms
For each sentence, choose the best word or phrase to complete the gap from the choices below.
- The grass is always on the other side of the fence.
- He's the sheep of the family. All the other children became lawyers but he joined a circus.
- You can tell him until you're in the face, but he just won't listen to reason.
- The caught him as he tried to steal some jeans from the shop.
- I had a call out of the from an old frind I hadn't seen for twenty years
- You're luck, always doing nice things. My husband only ever takes me out once in a moon.
- You look as as a sheet. What's happened?
- Money is such a problem these days. I always seem to be in the .
- You should see my mother's garden. She's really got fingers. She can make anything grow.
- I played rugby for the first time inages yesterday. That's why I'm black and all over now.
- I don't believe in being untruthful, but sometimes it's good to tell a lie to avoid hurting somebody's feelings.
- They treat you so well at that hotel. They really give you the carpet treatment.