Fish and Meat Idioms Exercise at Auto-English

A Translate the idioms.

Idiom

Translation

To bring home the bacon ...........................................................
To beef things up ...........................................................
Mutton dressed as lamb ...........................................................
To be packed in like sardines ...........................................................

B Circle the correct answer.

1 A: Were there many people at the concert?
  B: Yeah. We were  ______________.
A mutton dressed as lamb
B packed in like sardines
C saved our bacon
5 A: This soup's rather tasteless.
  B: Yes. We need to  ______________.
A add sardines
B throw in a lamb
C beef it up a bit
2 A: So her husband's unemployed.
  B: Yeah. It's her that ______________.
A beefs things up
B packs the sardines
C brings home the bacon
6 A: I couldn't believe how crowded it was.
  B: Yeah. We were ______________.
A packed in like sardines
B beefing it up
C mutton dressed as lamb
3 A: She's 56 and still goes round in miniskirts.
  B: A case of ______________.
A mutton dressed as lamb
B sardines
C bringing home the bacon
7 A: Thanks for telling Dad about the broken window
  B: That's OK. I think I've ______________
A dressed the mutton as lamb
B beefed it up
C saved your bacon
4 A: Thanks for helping. You ______________.
  B: That's alright. Anytime.
A were packed in like sardines
B saved my bacon
C brought home the bacon 
8 A: The story for our play's rather boring.
  B: I agree. We need to ______________
A bring home the bacon
B save the bacon
C beef it up
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