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Idioms From War Sport The SeaSet 3

1I can't help you there my friend. The ball is in your court.

2Which situation best illustrates "move the goalposts" ?

3What is the conflict associated with marrying Helen?

4Scotch mist

5To leave the army without permission

6I've shared all the documents; now the ball is in your .....

7What is a Charybdis?

8You should make every attempt to bury the hatchet.

9Bahasa Indonesia dari kata See Saw adalah .....

10What is the meaning of "to fish or cut bait" in the sentence?The manager told the team that they needed to either meet their deadlines or step aside; it was time to fish or cut bait.

11In the context of sports idioms, what does 'level playing field' refer to?

12Winston Churchill's term for the division between communist and free countries in Europe was the .....

13He has written many short stories, but writing a novel is a ..... for him.

14Choose the best meaning of "to cut the Gordian knot."

15What does "send off" mean in the context of a football game?

16The principal opened ..... when she started allowing students to use their cell phones at school

17"The ball is in your court" means .....

18What does 'Dulce et Decorum Est pro patria mori' mean?

19"Why don't you just cut to the chase, and tell me where you hid my phone!" CUT TO THE CHASE means .....

20Identify the meaning of the italicized idiomatic expression. "After Macky passed three shots in a row and passed the ball to a player on the other team, the boys were only up by two and they suspecting that Macky would be the Achilles' heel of the team."

21A tight, organized group moving like a battle formation.

22Blood and thunder

23What was the area between the trenches of the two enemy sides called?

24The ..... cut off Eastern Europe from the West metaphorically speaking.

25We're waiting for the local council to agree to our request.

26Horrible, terrible, ugly person .....

27"he done quite a bit in the ring"

28Fill in the blank: To start is to .....

29What was the name of the area between the trenches that contained barbed wire and land mines?

30Countries that are friends in war are called .....

31A war fought with the intention of preventing an adversary from becoming stronger in the future.

32"a good sport"

33According to Noah Hall, why do baseball players say they are "shutting down" instead of "quitting"?

34During the Great Depression, many people did lose their homes because they couldn't pay for them. They either had to live with family members or in makeshift "houses" made out of cardboard or whatever they could find. These were called "Hoovervilles" or .....

35The witch gave Snow White a gift of an apple, but it was a .....

36This is the name for a dead lock during a war in which neither side is able to defeat the other.

37"X marks the spot" is exclaimed when

38In military and security, "the perimeter has been breached" means that the

39An international contest between countries seeking military advantage over each other

40Boomtown

41With their bullets all gone, the soldiers were ..... for the enemy.

42In sports slang, a hat trick most commonly means what?

43(creep low fly high) what are the setting?

44What is it called when one country entered war against a country and it led to all of the countries' alliances being at war?

45The practice of burning crops and killing livestock during wartime so that the enemy cannot live off the land.

46I made a midnight ride warning the colonist that the British were going to invade very soon.

47Remembrance Day Poppy is an important date in the calendar of Canadians. Why do Canadian citizens celebrate the Remembrance Day Poppy?

48That lady should not have become a war correspondent. She is a "square peg in a round hole" .

49The area where football is played.

50"All's fair in love and war" most nearly means:

51What is "sink-the-ships?"

52To cover lots of ground

53What is a group of thieves called?

54"Risking it on one turn of pitch-and-toss" in the poem means:

55The ship has sailed

56If your clothes are on fire what should you do?

57Invasive species have been described as agents of ecological warfare. What does "agents of ecological warfare" mean?

58What does "to be in the same boat" mean?

59Civil disobedience refers to standing up against unfair laws or policies using .....

60A rapid succession of differentimages.

61A military conflict in which the contenders are willing to make any sacrifice to obtain victory.