Dirt cheap She needed money badly. So she had a garage sale in which she sold a lot of her things dirt cheap down-to-earth

Meanings

Each example has an idiom with a word from geography. Read the example carefully to find the meaning of the idiom. Then look at the definitions that follow the examples.Write the idiom next to its definition.

dirt cheap She needed money badly. So she had a garage sale in which she sold a lot of her things dirt cheap.

down-to-earth Oybek is always willing to give advice, and his advice is usually valuable. He's down-to-earth.

to go downhill The company is going downhill rapidly.

It needs to produce andsell more and better products.

Make a mountain Sally usually gets good grades but she didin’t do well one the out of a molehill last mountain out of test.

once in a blue moon Kaniza is so busy that she sses her brother Kevin only in a blue moon.

out of the woods He was very ill, but he’s getting better. He’s out of the woods.

out of this world The ice-cream at that store is out of this world. I’d walka a mile to buy some.

over the hill I used to be able torun five miles a day without any problem.Now I have trouble running just two miles. I must be getting over thr hill.

The tip of the Jasur seems very unhappy. He says that he’s having trouble in

iceberg. school, but I think’s only the tip of the iceberg.

Up the creek My car is in the repair shop again. Without it, I’m up the creek because I can’t get to work.

To win by a landslide Eighty-eight out of one houndred students choose Dan for class president. He won by a landslide.

1. _________________________ almost never, very seldom

2.__________________________ getting too old

3. __________________________to get almost all of the votes

4. _________________________ honest and direct, sensible and practical

5.__________________________very expensive

6.__________________________out of the trouble or difficulty

7.__________________________excellent, very good

8.__________________________small part of a langer promlem

9.__________________________ to make a big problem out of a small problem

10.________________________in trouble

11.__________________________ to go down in numbersor in quality, get worise