Matching Pairs IdiomsOnline version Some idioms by Catalina Rojas Trujillo 1 The last straw 2 As cool as cucumber 3 Cross your fingers 4 Ring a bell 5 Let the cat out of the bag 6 By the skin of your teeth 7 Gut feeling 8 Once in a blue moon 9 For donkeys years 10 Speak of the devil To hope that things will happen in the way that you want them to To sound familiar To allow a secret to be known, usually without intending to Something you say when the person you were talking about appears unexpectedly It is the maximum degree that can be reached and fills patience The intuition that a person has about a situation or person, usually when something is not going well. Many years Used to describe someone who is very calm Achieve something for little Not very often