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English idioms can be tricky! Can you match the idiom, ‘strike while the iron is hot’, with an idiom of the same meaning below?

Great, you answered "Break the back of the beast".

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  • Run with the hare and hunt with the hounds
  • Break the back of the beast
  • See the light at the end of the tunnel
  • Make hay while the sun shines
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Interesting fact:

Idioms can be difficult for non-native speakers to understand and they often have interesting backstories. The idiom ‘paint the town red’ means to have an unruly night out. It is thought to come from 1837 when an infamous troublemaker, the Marquis de Waterford, spent an evening vandalizing an English town with his friends. They literally painted various buildings red!

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