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English idioms can be tricky! Can you match the idiom, ‘let the cat out of the bag’, with an idiom of the opposite meaning below?

Great, you answered "Give the game away".

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  • Give the game away
  • Bite your tongue
  • Like a thief in the night
  • Stay as dumb as an oyster
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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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