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Matching Practice: Worksheet


Match each term to it's sentence.





- rack (one’s) brain(s) - - rain on (someone’s) parade - - raining cats and dogs - - raise cain - - rake (someone)/get raked over the coals - - rank and file - - read between the lines - - read (someone) the riot act - - read (something) into (something) - - real mccoy, the -




I’ve never seen such rain! Look how fast it’s coming
down. It’s raining cats and dogs.

I’ve been racking my brains, but I just can’t remember where I know that person from.

Mr. Ward found that his sons had used his tools and left them all over the garage floor. He raised Cain when he saw the boys and told them they couldn’t use the tools again.

They’re feeling so good today; nothing could rain on
their parade and spoil the way they feel.

Although James didn’t say it in so many words, Elizabeth could read between the lines that he didn’t want to see her again.

When Mark asked Diana what kind of engagement ring she wanted, she said she didn’t want an imitation diamond. She wanted the real McCoy.

Let me tell you what Scott said to me and then tell me how you would interpret it. Am I reading more into it than I should?

When the girls arrived home several hours late, their
mother read them the riot act.

The union asked its rank-and-file members to vote against the new contract that the company was offering.

The bank teller stood silently in the manager’s office while she raked him over the coals for the errors he had made that day.