Money idioms Call my Bluff

Team A

Make up false meanings for the idioms below, tell the other team the true and false meanings, and see if they can guess which is true.

Save your money for a rainy day:

1. Save money when time is good in case you have financial troubles later
2.  
3.  

The breadwinner

1.  
2. The person who brings most of the income into the household
3.  

Bring home the bacon

1. Earn a salary
2.  
3.  

A hole in the wall

1.  
2.  
3. A cash point (= ATM)

Put your money where your mouth is

1.  
2. Commit yourself to something, for example by investing your own money
3.  

Monopoly money

1.  
2.  
3. An amount of money that seems like a lot to poor people but is unimportant to rich people

When your teacher stops you, look at both pages and ask about idioms which you still aren’t sure about, working together to think of other definitions and/ or example sentences until they are clear.

Test each other on the idioms:

• say the idiom and see if your partner can give a correct definition and/ or example sentence
• say definitions and/ or example sentences until your partner can guess the idiom

Team B

Make up false meanings for the idioms below, tell the other team the true and false meanings, and see if they can guess which is true

In for a penny, in for a pound

1.  
2.  
3. Once you’ve decided to do something, you may as well dedicate yourself to it 100%

The pink pound

1.  
2. Spending power of gay people (usually quite high as many don’t have children)
3.  

To hold the purse strings

1. Be in control of the money, e.g. in a family or company
2.  
3.  

Spend a penny

1. Go to the toilet for a “number one” (a pee)
2.  
3.  

Have your fingers in the till

1.  
2.  
3. Be stealing money from work

When your teacher stops you, look at both pages and ask about idioms which you still aren’t sure about, working together to think of other definitions and/ or example sentences until they are clear.

Test each other on the idioms on both pages:

• say the idiom and see if your partner can give a correct definition and/ or example sentence
• say definitions and/ or example sentences until your partner can guess the idiom

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Related pages

Inside Out Upper Int Unit 3 page (including more money idioms)

Idioms page

49 EFL bluffing games/ EFL lying games (TEFLtastic Classics Part 24)