Idiom of the Week

This set of idiom posters comes in color and black and white. Help student learn about common idioms with these posters. There are 64 idioms included. Each poster has an illustration, the idiom, meaning, and an example. Also included are graphic organizers for students to write and draw examples of idioms.

Use the idiom posters as an idiom of the week. They would also work well put together as a book for students to reference when they are writing.

These posters are great for helping ELLs learn about this confusing part of speech.

Idioms included are:

Set 1

penny for your thoughts, two heads are better than one, speak of the devil, walking on eggshells, miss the boat, snowed under, raining cats and dogs, under the weather, at the end of your rope, open a can of worms, don‘t judge a book by its cover, a bird in the hand, drop of a hat, kill two birds with one stone, frog in your throat, cold shoulder

Set 2

time is money, steal someone's thunder, sick as a dog, needle in a haystack, time flies, pull someone's leg, last straw, hit the sack, heard it on the grapevine, head in the clouds, break a leg, from the horse's mouth, break the ice, burn the midnight oil, all ears, under the weather

Set 3

when pigs fly, the class clown, taste of your own medicine, spill the beans, the elephant in the room, don‘t put all your eggs in one basket, rain check, on cloud nine, leave no stone unturned, in the same boat, hot potato, fish out of water, don‘t count your chickens before they hatch, comparing apples and oranges, apple of my eye, barking up the wrong tree

Set 4

storm in a teacup, on the fence, on the ball, let the cat out of the bag, let sleeping dogs lie, hit the nail on the head, cut corners, the early bird catches the worm

cry over spilled milk, couch potato, cold feet, burn bridges, bigger fish to fry, beat around the bush, cost and arm and a leg, drop in the bucket

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Also check out this Idiom Puzzles File Folder Game Bundle using the same idioms covered with the posters