Language Arts Grade Four

Unit Nine, Lesson Two: Idioms

  1. wire
  2. expire
  3. umpire
  4. inspire
  5. entire
  6. retire
  7. reservation
  8. preserve
  9. protect
  10. county
  1. lookout
  2. forest
  3. timber
  4. lumberjack
  5. fir
  6. cedar
  7. pine
  8. hemlock
  9. redwood
  10. bristlecone
Idioms

Here are a few more idioms for you to consider: 


  IDIOM					MEANING
  break someone's heart			deeply disappoint
  by heart				from memory
  heart of stone			cruel or without feeling
  heart-to-heart			honest or personal
  heartless				uncaring
Here are these idioms used in sentences: 

  Jill broke Jack's heart when she broke up with him.

  Jill the entire poem by heart.

  Jack had a heart of stone when it came to yelping puppies.

  Jack and Jill had a heart-to-heart talk.

  After seeing Jack ignore the yelping puppies, Jill new that he was heartless.

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