The key to exercise solutions in chapter 6b - Vocabulary for the textbook On Screen B1+ - Student's Book with authors Virginia Evans and Jenny Dooley from Express Publishing
Question
Fill in: stood, skin, stiff, butterflies, sheet. Which idiom can you see in the picture? Have you got similar idioms in your language?
Make your own sentences using these idioms. Tell your partner.
Answer
1) sheet; 2) butterflies; 3) stiff; 4) skin; 5) stood; The picture shows a woman with butterflies in her stomach.
1) You look as white as a sheet - what happened?; 2) Some actors get butterflies in their stomach before they're about to go on stage.; 3) Have you ever been scared stiff?; 4) You made me jump out of my skin when you crept up behind me like that.; 5) I thought I saw a ghost and my hair stood on end.