Advanced English Idioms Challenge

Find out how many of these English idioms you know in my advanced English idioms challenge! You'll see 11 idioms in 11 example sentences. For each one, I'll give you 3 definitions to choose from.

Can you get all 11 correct?

Make sure to leave me a comment and:

- Let me know what score you got
- Tell me which idiom is your favourite

Oh, and if you want to, you could try and write your own example sentence using one or more of the idioms from this lesson!

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[Lucyrocks]

I'm thrilled I got 100% of them. Super cool, Derek! Surely, the examples you brought up did make it easier to figure out.

[englishflightacademy]

All 11 correct! Thanks for planning to upload such an interesting lesson!

Fat chance is my favourite idiom.

[saidfarid]

Hi Professor
Always i need your New lesson that deepen my vocabulay thank you for your help and advice.
I really appreciate your job. All the best
Take care and have a good time.
Your follower from Algeria

[rapopinadoropina]

Thank you for the videos. They are helping me a lot.

[kutlutoprak]

Thanks a lot! My faves are
Blow your own trumpet and Dead in the water.
Tests are very open and well. I like it very much!

[khanjmin]

Wow! I got all 11 correct.... great lesson.

[marinasanchez]

Thanks for your work and I guessed all the right idioms sentences!!!👍😉😁👏👏👏

[RajMohun-hydo]

Hi there. I got 8 out of 10, nd I'll continue until I get all of your exercise correct.
Thanks.

[jayfromthesky]

Hi Derek, wonderfully presented once again. Btw, I got all of them right. You just hit the bull's eye with this idioms stuff, my speciality. 🤗
Funny enough 'slim chance' means exactly the same as 'fat chance', even though the adjectives are quite the opposite! English is weird, innit? 😅✨😘

[freddiemercury]

Greetings from Casablanca Morocco, thanks mate.

[trueadvisers]

All correct, even when I heard all of them the very first time

[qingxu]

thanks Derek. My favorite is shit hits the fan because you have a picture before ur eyes :）

[Hondalover]

I got all right Derek. Although, I almost got thrown off by the fat chance one. 😄

[sisibelge]

Hi, I'm from Morocco too but not good as my compatriot Freddy is in idioms lol!
I scored 11 and I'm very happy.
My favorite one is " to bite off more than can chew" cause I know it from the song My Way by EP, which I like the most 🤗
Thanks for the the video, the examples were interesting, esp Iin business english 👌

[ochaky]

I got 100 and my favorite idiom is bite off more that you can chew

[Raziyeheydariafg]

Who is in C1 level ?I want an English partner:(