Fill in the Blanks IdiomsOnline version Expressões idiomáticas em inglês by Beatriz Scotti 1 water water foot ice fire eye eye end 1 Smal ltalk is one way to break the when meeting someone for the first time . 2 I was thrown in at the deep when my company sent me to run the German office . I was only given two days' notice to get everything ready . 3 We don't see eye to with our US parent company about punctuality . We have very different ideas about what being 'on time' means . It's a question of culture . 4 I got in to hot with my boss for wearing casual clothes to the meeting with the potential Japanese customers . 5 I really put my in it when I met our Spanish partner . Because I was nervous , I said 'Who are you ? ' rather than 'How are you ? ' . 6 I get on like a house on with our Polish agent ; we like the same things and have the same sense of humour . 7 When I visited China for the first time , I was like a fish out of . Everything was so different , and I couldn't read any of the signs ! 8 My first meeting with our overseas clients was a real - opener . I hadn't seen that style of negotiation before .