“Butter someone up” may sound odd, but its history links butter offerings for favor with the modern idea of flattering someone.
Where “butter someone up” comes from
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Passive Voice in Formal Writing Exercise
- B2
B2 Upper-Intermediate ESL gap-fill exercise focusing on passive voice in formal writing. Each item has one clearly correct answer.
Mixed Conditional Review for Meaning Exercise
- B2
CEFR B2; focus: mixed conditionals used to connect an unreal condition in one time with a result in another time.
Why we say “bury your head in the sand”
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This common idiom means avoiding an obvious problem. Its image comes from an old myth about ostriches, not their real behavior.
Nominalization of Adjective Phrases Exercise
- C1
C1 ESL multiple-choice gap-fill exercise on nominalization of adjective phrases.
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