Relier Pairs A. IdiomsVersion en ligne A. Match the idioms with the correct definitions. par CAALI online 1 "To beat about the bush." 2 "To get the wrong end of the stick." 3 "To put it in a nutshell." 4 "To talk at cross-purposes." 5 "Can't make head nor tail of it." 6 "To hear it on the grapevine." 7 "To be like talking to a brick wall." - To fail to understand anything. - To not understand someone. - To delay talking about something. - To hear something because the information has been passed from one person to another in a conversation. - To not understand something. - To try to communicate with an unresponsive person. - To give the main facts in a short, clear way.