智美小编收集整理了托福较新成语及其例句，一起来看一下吧!希望能对你有所帮助!

1.Those second-hand pianos are selling like hot cakes， if you want one，  you'd better buy one now before they're all gone. sell like hot cakes=sell very well or very quickly

2.Whenever I have to make a speech I get butterflies in my stomach. get butterflies in one's stomach=get nervous

3 He would do anything for his daughter. She was the apple of his eye. be the apple of one's eye=be very precious to sb.

4 Lend me ，please， Tom， I'm broke at the moment. be broke=doesn't have any money

5 The accident was caused by a taxi driver jumping the green light. jump the green light=doesn't wait for the traffic lights to change to green

6.You didn't think I was serious， did you， Joe! It was a joke! I was pulling your leg， that's all. pull one's leg=tease someone，逗某人玩

7 Because the owner wanted a quick sale， the painting went for a song-only. If something "goes for a song"， it is sold very cheaply

8 There was a shortage of food; so you had to pay through the nose for what you could find. To "pay through the nose " for something is to pay far more for something than it is really worth

9 If he finds out what you did with the company's money， he'll hit the roof. hit the roof=get very angry

10 The sky got very dark and soon the rain began to bucket down. bucket down = rain very heavily

11 They all chip in for the benefit of Simpson's widow and little child. chip in=contribute money捐献

12.He usually buys his clothes off the peg. It's cheaper than going to a dressmaker. Off the peg clothes =成衣

13 Now stop beating about the bush and tell me what happened! beat about the bush=avoid saying directly what you mean

14 I really must go and lie down for a while ;I've got a splitting headache. Splitting headache=painful headache

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