Choose the best idiom or expression for each blank below:

B) Get up on the wrong side of the bed

C) Get in someone's hair

H) Get out of my face

D) Ace the test

E) Goof up

1. *Children! Would you please stop making so much noise!

   *Clara! I know that the children ____, but you should try not to let it upset you so much.

2. Mary, you always take such a long time to put on your makeup. Come on, ____!

3. *What's the matter with Bernard today? He started shouting from  the moment he stepped into the office.

   *I don't know. He usually doesn't act that way at all. I guess he ____.

4. How could she possibly ____ when she keeps ____ all the time?

5. I forgot to pick her up at the airport! I really ____.

6. She ____ cheating on the test.

7. ____! I'm busy.

8. She never gets in trouble for not doing her homework because she's ____.

Last updated: July 2004