Idioms (Describing People)

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Positive & Negative Qualities


She has a heart of gold.  💗
She is as hard as nails. 💅
He is as good as gold. 👑
He is rather a cold fish. 🐟


1. Which of the previous idioms do you think is positive? And negative?



2. Try to guess the meaning of them.






Fast & Slow Qualities

He is very quick off the mark. ↺
It was a bit slow off the mark.↻
You've asked him to marry you! You're a fast worker! You only met him three weeks ago. 👷
Come on! Hurry up! You're such a slow-coach!⛹


3. Try to guess the meaning of the previous idioms.





How people relate to the social norm


She's a bit of an odd-ball.⚽
He's really over the top.🌄
He's round the bend, if you ask me. ⟲
My politics are very middle-of-the-road.⛙


4. Try to guess the meaning of the previous idioms. 







People in the classroom

She is teacher's pet.🐶
Mary's top of the class.🗻
He is a real know-all. 💡
He is a bit of a big-head. 🙌
 She is a lazy-bones. 🍖


5. Try to guess the meaning of the previous idioms.





6. If you need help, here you have all the meanings. The only thing that you have to do is decide which one belongs to the correct idiom

  • Very strange
  • Always gets things before everybody else
  • Pupil favoured by a tutor
  • Very kind and generous
  • Distant, unfriendly
  • Extremely slow
  • Absolutely crazy/mad
  • The best
  • Generous, helpful and well-behaved
  • Out of time
  • Extremely fast
  • Very exaggerated in behaviour
  • Thinking you know all the answers
  • Idle person
  • No sympathy for others
  • Very normal; no radical ideas; neither left nor right wing
  • Conceited

7. Let's write and speak!
Now it's time to write or speak about how other people, or yourself, are using the previous idioms. 



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