English idioms can be tricky! Can you match the idiom, ‘stop beating around the bush’, with an idiom of the opposite meaning below?
Great, you answered "Lay one’s cards on the table".
See here what other people have answered:
- Call a spade a spade
- Get a second bite of the cherry
- Lay one’s cards on the table
- Throw dust in their eyes
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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!