Clothing Idioms Exercise

Answers

1. If you are willing to do something at the drop of a hat, you don’t need any advance notice to do it.
2. If somebody has a bee in their bonnet, they have something that annoys them.
3. You needn’t have commented on her speech impairment; it was below the belt.
4. The city is bursting at the seams due to the influx of migrants.
5. When you have a card up your sleeve, you have a reserve plan.
6. To buckle down is to work hard.
7. My birthday money was burning a hole in my pocket, so I went straight to the shops.
8. We were not going to a party, but she was still dressed to the nines.
9. This gown fits me like a glove.
10. They examined the evidence with a fine-tooth comb.
11. To fly by the seat of one’s pants is to do something without a plan.
12. She is very sensitive, so you have to handle her with kid gloves.