Advanced Idiom Quiz #9
イディオムクイズ 上級 第9回
より自然で表現力の高い英語イディオムを3択で学びましょう。
Q1. What does “be skating on thin ice” mean?
If you keep ignoring the warnings, you’ll be skating on thin ice.
Q2. What does “go back to the drawing board” mean?
The proposal was rejected, so we had to go back to the drawing board.
Q3. What does “be flogging a dead horse” mean?
Trying to revive that old campaign is just flogging a dead horse.
Q4. What does “pull your punches” mean?
Don’t pull your punches—I want your honest opinion.
Q5. What does “have a bee in your bonnet” mean?
He has a bee in his bonnet about office parking.
Q6. What does “be neither here nor there” mean?
Whether he likes it or not is neither here nor there—the decision has been made.
Q7. What does “have a bone to pick with someone” mean?
I have a bone to pick with you about yesterday’s meeting.
Q8. What does “be all mouth and no trousers” mean?
He talks tough, but he’s all mouth and no trousers.
Q9. What does “go down a rabbit hole” mean?
I only meant to check one fact, but I went down a rabbit hole online for hours.
Q10. What does “be on a hiding to nothing” mean?
Trying to please both sides in that dispute was a hiding to nothing.
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