Match up the idioms with their meanings
Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 6:30 pm
This was sent by an Australian, some are not quite on as USian expressions, This group used to like this sort of thing...
Match up the idioms with their meanings:
1. kiss the gunner's daughter
2. kiss of death
3. kiss and make up
4. kiss of life
5. kissing cousins
6. kiss ar*e
7. kiss something goodbye
8. kiss off
9. kiss and tell
10. kiss the blarney stone
a-help someone who has stopped breathing to breathe again by blowing into their mouth and pressing their chest
b-a sailor about to receive punishment (usually flogging) was lashed face-down on a cannon
c-dismiss or reject
d-you won't get this thing back
e-to try too hard to please someone and to agree with everything they say, in a way which other people find unpleasant
f-to become friendly again after arguing
g-an event or action that causes something to fail or be spoiled
h-give a lot of compliments; talk a lot
i-someone you are related to but not very closely
j-to talk on television, in a newspaper etc. about a private relationship with a famous person, especially in order to get a lot of money
And just by the by ... did you know that the custom of a man kissing his wife when he got home originated with the Romans? And no, not because they were the original hot Latin lovers; it was instead their way of checking if their wives had been drinking during the day!
B.
Match up the idioms with their meanings:
1. kiss the gunner's daughter
2. kiss of death
3. kiss and make up
4. kiss of life
5. kissing cousins
6. kiss ar*e
7. kiss something goodbye
8. kiss off
9. kiss and tell
10. kiss the blarney stone
a-help someone who has stopped breathing to breathe again by blowing into their mouth and pressing their chest
b-a sailor about to receive punishment (usually flogging) was lashed face-down on a cannon
c-dismiss or reject
d-you won't get this thing back
e-to try too hard to please someone and to agree with everything they say, in a way which other people find unpleasant
f-to become friendly again after arguing
g-an event or action that causes something to fail or be spoiled
h-give a lot of compliments; talk a lot
i-someone you are related to but not very closely
j-to talk on television, in a newspaper etc. about a private relationship with a famous person, especially in order to get a lot of money
And just by the by ... did you know that the custom of a man kissing his wife when he got home originated with the Romans? And no, not because they were the original hot Latin lovers; it was instead their way of checking if their wives had been drinking during the day!
B.