Expressions with PLANTS

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PLANT IDIOMS and watch them grow!

This quiz will help you blossom! Choose the most likely answer.

1. Although I live in the UK, I occasionally return to Italy to ____ .

seek my roots get back to my roots relive my roots

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2. There are lots of ____ of the big banks in UK cities.

roots branches trunks

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3. John used to be a young tearaway, but luckily he _____ and now he's respectable.

turned over a new leaf switched branches went back to his root

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4. The grass is always _____ on the other side of the fence!

richer longer greener

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5. A rolling stone gathers _____ .

few potatoes no moss little greenery

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6. Life isn't always _____ .

a bed of roses a bed of thorns at the top of the tree

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7. Mighty oaks from little _____ .

chestnuts blossom acorns grow roots appear

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8. Bad behaviour in the classroom should be _____ .

nipped in the bud cut to the roots stopped at the blossom

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9. Poor Freddie is now _____ .

pushing up the daisies growing with the grass mixing with the earth

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10. I'm very tired now and am going to _____ .

bed with roses lie in the grass hit the hay

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