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Match Polish idioms with the English equivalents.

Read each question carefully and and select the right answers. When you have finished, click the button 'Mark Answers' at the bottom of the page to find out how well you have done.

Question 1

mydlić komuś oczy

to keep one’s mouth shut to pull the wool over someone’s eyes hold one’s tongue to sulk

Question 2

rzucić okiem

to keep one’s mouth shut tone-deaf to glance to turn up one’s nose at someone or sth, to be fussy

Question 3

wpaść komuś w oko

to pull the wool over someone’s eyes to catch one’s eye walls have ears cross-question or to grill someone

Question 4

nabrać wody w usta

to keep one’s mouth shut cross-question or to grill someone hold one’s tongue to sulk

Question 5

drewniane ucho

to glance to catch one’s eye tone-deaf walls have ears

Question 6

ściany mają uszy

cross-question or to grill someone walls have ears hold one’s tongue to turn up one’s nose at someone or sth, to be fussy

Question 7

ciągnąć kogoś za język

cross-question or to grill someone to keep one’s mouth shut to pull the wool over someone’s eyes to glance

Question 8

trzymać język za zębami

to pull the wool over someone’s eyes to glance to catch one’s eye hold one’s tongue

Question 9

kręcić nosem

to glance to catch one’s eye to turn up one’s nose at someone or sth, to be fussy to sulk

Question 10

mieć muchy w nosie

to turn up one’s nose at someone or sth, to be fussy hold one’s tongue cross-question or to grill someone walls have ears

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