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What idea does Fast and furious usually express?

  • An unfairly high price
  • Refuse to change one’s mind
  • Happening very quickly and energetically
  • Bring something to an end
  • Very healthy and strong
Correct answer(s):
  • Happening very quickly and energetically

Choose the best interpretation of Far from it.

  • Have effects on both sides
  • Without money, work, or hope
  • Control people by making them disagree with each other
  • Not at all; the opposite is true
Correct answer(s):
  • Not at all; the opposite is true

Which meaning matches the phrase Familiar ground?

  • Disappear or change very slowly
  • A subject or situation one knows well
  • Mutual compromise
  • Honestly and according to the rules
Correct answer(s):
  • A subject or situation one knows well

What is the figurative meaning of Fall on deaf ears?

  • From one place or person to another without success
  • Avoid someone or something
  • False or insincere sadness
  • Be ignored
  • In all practical ways
Correct answer(s):
  • Be ignored

For SSC English, identify the meaning of Fair and square.

  • Mutual compromise
  • Honestly and according to the rules
  • Avoid someone or something
  • Have effects on both sides
Correct answer(s):
  • Honestly and according to the rules

Which option gives the correct meaning of Every nook and cranny?

  • An unfairly high price
  • Produce very good results
  • Strongly opposed to something
  • Every small place
Correct answer(s):
  • Every small place

Select the option that best explains Every inch.

  • Completely or in every way
  • Produce very good results
  • Very healthy and strong
  • Rare and not happening often
  • Try to gain advantage from a confused situation
Correct answer(s):
  • Completely or in every way

In English, what is meant by Eat one’s words?

  • Without money, work, or hope
  • Already decided and not likely to change
  • Admit that what one said was wrong
  • Happening very quickly and energetically
Correct answer(s):
  • Admit that what one said was wrong

Choose the correct meaning of Eager beaver.

  • A very enthusiastic and hardworking person
  • Begin discussing the most important practical details
  • Mostly; generally
  • Negotiate strongly to get a good deal
Correct answer(s):
  • A very enthusiastic and hardworking person

What does the idiom Dutch courage mean?

  • The hottest or most tiring days of a period
  • Do the same thing as someone else
  • Shared opinions or interests
  • Bravery gained from drinking alcohol
  • Already decided and not likely to change
Correct answer(s):
  • Bravery gained from drinking alcohol

Which answer best defines Drop in the bucket?

  • Be ignored
  • A very small amount compared with what is needed
  • Complain about something that cannot be changed
  • The hottest or most tiring days of a period
Correct answer(s):
  • A very small amount compared with what is needed

Pick the correct meaning of the expression Drive a hard bargain.

  • Complain about something that cannot be changed
  • In all practical ways
  • Negotiate strongly to get a good deal
  • An unfairly high price
Correct answer(s):
  • Negotiate strongly to get a good deal

What does the phrase Draw the curtain on suggest?

  • Bring something to an end
  • Completely or in every way
  • A very enthusiastic and hardworking person
  • An unfairly high price
  • Change financial records dishonestly
Correct answer(s):
  • Bring something to an end

How should we understand Draw a blank in a sentence?

  • A subject or situation one knows well
  • Fail or end badly
  • Without money, work, or hope
  • Fail to remember or find something
Correct answer(s):
  • Fail to remember or find something

Which explanation is closest to Down and out?

  • Without money, work, or hope
  • Completely or in every way
  • Shared opinions or interests
  • Reach a crisis or decisive point
Correct answer(s):
  • Without money, work, or hope

What idea does Dog days usually express?

  • Rare and not happening often
  • Very healthy and strong
  • The hottest or most tiring days of a period
  • Have effects on both sides
  • Very near in time or place
Correct answer(s):
  • The hottest or most tiring days of a period

Choose the best interpretation of Do wonders.

  • Produce very good results
  • Have effects on both sides
  • Admit that what one said was wrong
  • Completely or in every way
Correct answer(s):
  • Produce very good results

Which meaning matches the phrase Do more harm than good?

  • Without money, work, or hope
  • Do the same thing as someone else
  • Refuse to change one’s mind
  • Cause more damage than benefit
Correct answer(s):
  • Cause more damage than benefit

What is the figurative meaning of Divide and rule?

  • Tell the truth after hiding it
  • Control people by making them disagree with each other
  • Remove someone’s support or advantage
  • Change one’s opinion or attitude
  • Refuse to change one’s mind
Correct answer(s):
  • Control people by making them disagree with each other

For SSC English, identify the meaning of Dig one’s heels in.

  • Be ignored
  • For a future time of need
  • Refuse to change one’s mind
  • Strongly opposed to something
Correct answer(s):
  • Refuse to change one's mind