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Technology Related Idioms

This document provides technology-related idioms and their meanings. It contains two exercises - the first matches idioms like "blow a fuse" and "not rocket science" to their definitions, while the second uses the idioms in sentences to demonstrate their meanings. The key at the bottom provides the answers. In 3 sentences: This document presents technology idioms, has exercises matching them to definitions and using them in sentences, and includes an answer key for self-checking comprehension.

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Technology Related Idioms

This document provides technology-related idioms and their meanings. It contains two exercises - the first matches idioms like "blow a fuse" and "not rocket science" to their definitions, while the second uses the idioms in sentences to demonstrate their meanings. The key at the bottom provides the answers. In 3 sentences: This document presents technology idioms, has exercises matching them to definitions and using them in sentences, and includes an answer key for self-checking comprehension.

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Technology Related Idioms

A. Match the idioms to their meanings.

1. Blow a fuse
2. Get / have our wires crossed
3. Not rocket science
4. On the same wavelength
5. Re-invent the wheel
6. Up and running
7. Hit the panic button

1 2 3 4 5 6 7

a) Ready to use
b) To react rapidly or by taking emergency precautions.
c) To get angry
d) To think similarly or to have the same ideas and opinions.
e) Something is easy to understand or do
f) To waste time doing something that has already been done effectively
g) To misunderstand someone

B. Choose idioms from exercise 1 and place them in the


sentences below. Put the verb in the correct tense
where necessary.

1. I dropped Bettina’s phone today. She _________________


and yelled at me.
2. After a good service, my car is finally ________________
again.
3. All you have to do is connect the red wire to the green one! It’s
_______________________________.
4. My friend and I agreed to meet at seven o’clock but he showed up at eight. We
must have _______________________________.
5. Calm down! It’s just a fly. There’s no need to __________________________
6. I’m so confused. My teacher and I _______________________________.

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Key:

Exercise A:

1. C
2. G
3. E
4. D
5. F
6. A
7. B

Exercise B:

1. Blew a fuse / Blew her fuse


2. Up and running
3. Not rocket science
4. Had our wires crossed / gotten our wires crossed / got our
wires crossed
5. Hit the panic button
6. Are on different wavelengths

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