Quiz playing is a wonderful way to increase your knowledge of English as a Second Language. Remember that all of our ESL quizzes have titles that are both friendly and technical at the same time… In the case of this quiz you might like to tell your friends about “Fun and Games” but no doubt your teachers will talk about the “Doubleton Phrases quiz”! If you hear a technical term and you want to find a quiz about the subject then just look through the list of quiz titles until you find what you need.
English contains lots of 'doubleton phrases' (i.e. with two elements in them, for 'strength') - such, indeed, as 'fun and games'. How many doubleton phrases do you know?
It is less fashionable now, but still widely-heard to describe something that is good / impressive / enjoyable etc. as 'smashing' (this does not, in fact, carry any suggestion of breaking anything ~ except, perhaps, the odd record). It would now sound rather over-the-top to describe a boiled egg as 'smashing', even though you would have had to break its top to eat what's inside.
'Grab' means more or less the same as 'snatch': to seize hold, hard and quickly, of something, often in an emergency ('She reached out and grabbed the handle'). In informal English, an office worker (for instance) with little time for lunch might 'grab a bite to eat'.
(We always felt there was a space in the market for an Italian company, selling pannini etc., to call itself 'Grabassani' [ = 'grab a sarnie', i.e. a sandwich]).