limelight

 

1. To wish a performer "good luck" before they go on stage, you can say:
  • steal the show
  • make a song and dance
  • it's curtains
  • break a leg
2. If you're taking all the attention for yourself and taking the focus away from someone else, you are:
  • downstaging them
  • backstaging them
  • upstaging them
  • spotlighting them
  • limelighting them
3. If someone exaggerates the importance of something and makes an unnecessary fuss about it, they are:
  • making an entrance
  • making an exit
  • making a song and dance
  • stealing the show
  • making curtains
4. If you are waiting for an opportunity to do something but it involves someone else leaving space for you, you are:
  • getting the show on the road
  • looking for the spotlight
  • looking for the limelight
  • trying to steal the show
  • waiting in the wings
5. If someone loses their job, or something else major in their life comes to an end, what might you say?
  • He's making an exit.
  • He's a tough act to follow.
  • It's curtains for him.
  • He's out of the spotlight.
  • He's out of the limelight.
6. If someone arrives late at an event so that everyone will turn around and look at them, this person is:
  • making a song and dance
  • waiting in the wings
  • making an entrance
  • making a fuss
  • making a drama
7. If you are replacing someone who worked to a very high standard, what might you say about them?
  • I'm upstaging her.
  • I'm downstaging her.
  • It's curtains for her.
  • She's a tough act to follow.
  • She's making an exit.
8. If you want to get a meeting started, what might you say?
  • Let's break a leg.
  • Let's steal the show.
  • Let's make a song and dance.
  • Let's get the show on the road.
  • Let's make an entrance.
9. In a room full of people, if one person is the centre of attention, what might you say about them?
  • It's curtains for him.
  • He's waiting in the wings.
  • He's making an entrance.
  • He's standing upstage.
  • The spotlight is on him.
10. In this Shakespeare quotation, what is the missing word?
"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely ________________."
  • payers
  • players
  • prayers
  • sayers

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