The Phantom Tollbooth Chapter 7 Vocabulary
enormous Really BIG!
vast Big
Crimson throne
irritably Grumpily (he is grumpy)
Embroidered Stitched (needle and thread)
glum sad
Figurative Language Make mountains out of molehills Splits hairs Makes hay while the sun shines Leaves no stone unturned Hangs by a thread
Figurative Language Wait for your just desserts Don’t bite off more than you can chew In one ear and out the other If it isn’t one thing, it’s another Out of the frying pan and into the fire Bite my head off
Eat your words Figurative language you will admit that you made a mistake after you had bragged about how right you were and everyone else was wrong
Half-baked ideas Crazy, silly ideas Examples: The earth is flat The moon is made of green cheese It never rains but it pours Night air is bad air Everything happens for the best