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Previously, The Teacher asked you to choose three new idioms and do one of the following:

write your own 'The Teacher' script using your new idioms
make an audio version using your idioms
make a video version using your idioms
(if you were feeling brave) - to do all three

He has published his favourites below, and made a video to let you know what he thought.

Teacher's response

The Teacher with one of your videos

Watch the video

The Teacher (MP4 - 22 MB)

Your idioms

Tai Chen Yu, Singapore:
A stone's throw
To fight like cat and dog
To kick the bucket
I am the smartest kid (pdf - 6 K)

Adam Sulmicki, Poland:
Computer spoken idioms transcript (pdf - 97 K)
Computer spoken idioms (mp3 - 176 K)

Silvia Ceragioli, Italy:
To put one's foot in one's mouth
To look a gift horse in the mouth
To be born with a silver spoon in one's mouth
Mouth idioms (pdf - 6 K)

Muhammad Rashid, Pakistan:
To cock a snook
Cock of the walk
A cock-and-bull story
Muhammad's idioms (pdf - 47 K)

Bhargavi and Saraswat Bhattacharyya:
To be on the ball
A ball by ball account
The ball is in your court
Ball idioms (pdf - 4 K)
Ball idioms idioms (mp3 - 485 K)

Khiar Mahfoudh:
As poor as a church mouse
As quiet as a mouse
When the cat's away, the mice will play
Mouse idioms (pdf - 11 K)

Mahdi Boudouda, Algeria:
At the eleventh hour
Time on your side
A race against time
Time idioms video (6.7 MB)

Hebin Zhang, China:
A story about three golden dolls using the following:
To go in one ear and out the other
To keep something or somebody in mind
To have a big mouth
Three Golden Dolls (pdf - 8 K)
Three Golden Dolls (mp3 - 1.1 MB)

Ama Helel, Egypt:
Clean up your act
A piece of the action
Actions speak louder than words
A class act
Action and act idioms (pdf - 4 K)
Action and act idioms (mp3 - 360 K)

Licia Arcidiacono, Italy:
To feel blue
To be green with envy
To be in the pink
Colour idioms (pdf - 11 K)

Videos from Teachers at IATEFL in Exeter, UK:

Peta Eisberg:
To make my eyes pop out of my head
Eyes pop out of my head (2.2 MB)

Lisa Nazarenko:
To have your cake and eat it
Have your cake and eat it (2.7 MB)

Isma Sadat:
A leopard doesn't change its spots
A leopard doesn't change its spots (3.2 MB)

Tilly Harrison :
A rolling stone gathers no moss
Rolling stone (2.9 MB)

Barbara Gardner:
To have a senior moment
Senior moment (1.7 MB)

Amy Lightfoot:
What goes around comes around
What goes around comes around (2.2 MB)

Ciaran McDonald:
It's brass monkeys today
Brass monkeys (3.2 MB)

Steve Chadwick:
Every cloud has a silver lining
Silver lining (2 MB)

Edward de Cazal:
On the whole
On the whole (3.1 MB)

Celia Wigley:
Take the bull by its horns
Bull (2.7 MB)

Liz Williams:
I've had a bellyful of it
Bellyful (2 MB)