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Extremes

What the cartoon shows is correct! If you don't think so, you need to learn English Idioms!

Out of the frying pan ____ means to exit one bad situation but get involved in another just as bad.

into the fire into the soup onto the cooker

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The plan falls between ____ - the plan is neither one thing nor another; it's wishy-washy.

two enemies two stools two armies

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Those twins are not identical. In fact, they are as different as chalk ____

is to ink and cheese and rock

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These two twins are as alike as two ____

snakes in the grass peas in a pod pin-ups

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I don't understand this diagram at all - I can't ____

make head nor tail of it get my head into it head one way or the other

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Give him an inch and ____ - if you allow him just a little, he'll take as much as he can.

he'll take a mile he'll take miles he'll take kilometres

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Give her enough rope and she'll ____ (if she's doing something bad don't stop her, and she'll make things worse for herself

top herself bury herself hang herself

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I know someone who lives from ____ - he has no money saved, and has to find (especially) food each day.

pocket to bag pound to penny hand to mouth

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“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking ____.” is a quote by the Irish playwright, Oscar Wilde. No matter how low we sink, some of us can still appreciate the good and pure things in life.

into the sunlight at the stars towards Heaven

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After his parents died, poor little Jimmy was ____, and never had a stable family life.

passed from pillar to post sent hither and thither sent from one family to another

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