Idiom Day was the icing on the cake

Neighbors | Abby Slanker.Four students in Canfield Village Middle School fifth-grade teacher Julie Webb’s Language Arts class were voted by their classmates as having the most creative idiom costumes for Idiom Day May 20. The students’ idioms were, from left, top vote getter "taste of my own medicine," "out of the blue," "I lost my head" and "Elvis has left the building."

Neighbors | Abby Slanker.Students in Canfield Village Middle School fifth-grade teacher Julie Webb’s Language Arts class got creative as they dressed as idioms for Idiom Day on May 20. Idioms included, from left, "don’t count your chickens until they hatch," "nest egg," "let sleeping dogs lie," "put a sock in it" and "back to the drawing board."

Neighbors | Abby Slanker.Fifth-grade students in Julie Webb’s Language Arts class at Canfield Village Middle School went all out to creatively portray their assigned idioms on Idiom Day on May 20. Students dressed as, from left, "off the hook," "once in a blue moon," "every cloud has a silver lining," "the last straw," "hocus pocus," "head in the clouds" and "have a field day."

Neighbors | Abby Slanker.Students in Canfield Village Middle School fifth-grade teacher Julie Webb’s Language Arts class celebrated Idiom Day by dressing up as their assigned phrase on May 20. Students dressed as, from left, "saved by the bell," "icing on the cake," "crying wolf," "rain check" and "New York minute."