Question

(1) I get a kick out of creating model airplanes. (2) I've been making them since I was knee-high to a grasshopper. (3) My grandfather used to fly bush planes in the Outback. (4) He would tell me stories and say that he and I were two peas in a pod.

Which sentence in the paragraph above does NOT contain an idiom?
A. Sentence 1
B. Sentence 2
C. Sentence 3
D. Sentence 4

Answer 1

I think c. sentence 3

Answer 2

The answer is indeed option C) Sentence 3.

Step-by-step explanation:

An idiom is a figure of speech. Its meaning is not necessarily deductible from the individual words that are part of its structure. In sentences 1, 2, and 4 we have the following idioms:

- get a kick out of - means to enjoy something

- to be knee-high to a grasshopper - means to be really young

- to be two peas in a pod - to be very similar to someone/something

The expressions above, if taken literally, wouldn't be correctly understood.

The sentence that does not contain such a type of expression is sentence 3.