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Poems For Idioms

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This book contains 45 poems to help explain the idioms we use in our daily language. Spiral Bound 8 ½" X 11"

Sample Poem

Cat Got Your Tongue

I was feeling shy when my uncle came.
"Has the cat got your tongue?" he said.
He must have meant, "Why aren't you talking?"
Because my tongue was still in my head.

—Adele Tolley Wilson


Table Of Contents
Beat Around the Bush1
Bite Off More Than You Can Chew1
Break the Ice1
Butterflies in My Stomach2
By the Skin of my Teeth2
Cart Before the horse2
Cat Got your Tongue3
Catch More Flies With Honey3
Chomping at the Bit3
Dime a Dozen4
Don’t See Eye to Eye4
Elbow Grease4
Face the Music5
Fish Out of Water5
Hit the Sack5
Hold Your Horses/Keep Your Shirt On6
Holding the Bag6
Hot Under the Collar6
In Hot Water7
In the Pink and Fit as a Fiddle7
Let Sleeping Dogs Lie7
Let the Cat Out of the Bag8
Light at the End of the Tunnel8
Look at the Bottom Line8
Look Before You Leap9
Look on the Bright Side9
More Than One Way to Skin a Cat9
Off the Top of My Head10
On Cloud Nine10
On the Ball10
Out on a Limb11
Pass the Buck11
Pulling My Leg11
Raining Cats and Dogs12
Rings a Bell12
Rome Wasn’t Built in a Day12
Shake a Leg13
Shoe Is on the Other Foot13
Skating on Thin Ice13
Sleep On It14
Smell a Rat14
Spill the Beans14
Take Your Seat15
Walk on Eggs15
Water of a Duck’s Back15