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Sport & Game Idioms

Poker face, an ace up your sleeve, back to square one: English from cards, games and sport.

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All 22 Photo Vocab 11 Idioms 9 Slang 2 British Culture 1

Linocut-style illustration of office workers pointing at each other around a broken coffee machine, with the idiom 'pass the buck', its meaning and an example sentence

Idiom – Pass The Buck

Comic-style illustration of a hand at a poker table with an ace of spades sliding out of the sleeve while a suspicious player watches, with the idiom 'an ace up your sleeve', its meaning and an example sentence

Idiom – An Ace Up Your Sleeve

Cartoon poker game where a confident woman calls a man's bluff as two players look shocked, with the idiom 'call someone's bluff', its meaning and an example sentence

Idiom – Call Someone’s Bluff

Painting of dogs playing poker with the example sentence He kept a perfect poker face when his boss asked who'd eaten the last doughnut, meaning showing no emotion or reaction, so no one can tell what you're really thinking

Idiom – Poker Face

turn the tables idiom

Idiom – Turn The Tables

lose your marbles idiom

Idiom – Lose Your Marbles

idiom long shot

Idiom – Long Shot

surf vocabulary

Surf Vocabulary

hiking vocabulary

Hiking Vocabulary

boxing vocabulary

Boxing Vocabulary

golf vocabulary

Golf Vocabulary

pool vocabulary

Pool Vocabulary

Two people back at square one, starting a board game over from the beginning

Idiom – Back To Square One

bowling vocabulary

Bowling Vocabulary

A cyclist pedalling a bicycle fast along a road beside a green field

Bicycle Vocabulary

Two men arm wrestling at a table with folded banknotes wagered beside their hands

Arm Wrestling Vocabulary

A poker player peeking at an Ace and King hole card beside a stack of poker chips

Poker Vocabulary

A scuba diver wearing fins swimming near a sunken shipwreck underwater

Scuba Vocabulary

A chess set with black and white pieces arranged on a chessboard, ready to play

Chess Vocabulary

Photo of two dice on a dark background with the example sentence Another $20? Sorry, no dice, meaning no, not possible

Idiom – No Dice

A football stadium crowd with smoke flares and flags, overlaid with the word 'footy'

British Culture, Slang

Slang – Footy

Rugby players competing for the ball during a match, illustrating the slang term rugger

Slang – Rugger

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01IdiomsRaining cats and dogs — and why 02SlangChuffed, knackered, gutted 03Phrasal VerbsGet on, get over, get by 04GrammarTenses without the tears 05Common PhrasesWhat people really say 06British CultureQueues, tea and ‘you alright?’07Photo VocabWords you can actually see 08ProverbsOld wisdom, still handy 09LessonsThemed deep dives 10In the NewsEnglish from the headlines

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