An ugly duckling
The straw that broke the camel’s back.
Long in the tooth
You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink
You can’t teach an old dog new tricks
Changing habits is difficult if you've been doing things for a long time.
When someone who appears unattractive develops into someone beautiful.
Someone/something that is old in age, having been around for a long time.
A series of small problems that lead to one big issue that results in fireworks.
You can provide an opportunity, but you cannot force someone to take it.
An idiom is a phrase that, when taken as a whole, has a meaning you wouldn't be able to work out from the meanings of the individual words.
Look at the text in the left hand column. They are examples of idioms.
Look at the text in the right hand column. These are the meanings to those idioms.
Drag a "meaning" from the right hand column into the central column next to the idiom to which you think it belongs.
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