Directions: Choose the best idiom to complete each sentence.

1.When we go camping, the first thing we usually do is to _______ the tent.

2. Does anyone know where our meeting is going to _______?

3. I put a plastic owl in my garden to ______ the animals eating my tomatoes, but it didn’t work.

4. Many of the parts on Fred’s old car are _______, so he’s just going to get a new car.

5. The students were unable to _______ the teacher’s lesson because of some noise outside.

6. ________ I felt sick and had to lie down. It happened very quickly.

7. We’re much _______ now than when we were younger and didn’t have jobs.

8. It was very difficult for Gordon to ______ his family after he was arrested for shoplifting.

9. Concerns about global warming keep _______ at me. We have to do something about it.

10.You have to _______ your assignment because there are too many mistakes in it.

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