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Which explanation is closest to Grease the wheels?

  • Be good at noticing or judging something
  • Make the final decision or final remark
  • Have no connection or effect
  • Make a process easier or faster
Correct answer(s):
  • Make a process easier or faster

What idea does Grasp at straws usually express?

  • From one place or person to another without success
  • Do something without real interest or effort
  • Try any possible solution when hope is low
  • Refuse to move back or change one’s position
  • Relief that someone or something unwanted is gone
Correct answer(s):
  • Try any possible solution when hope is low

Choose the best interpretation of Good riddance.

  • Trust someone when the truth is uncertain
  • Go to bed
  • Relief that someone or something unwanted is gone
  • Mostly; generally
Correct answer(s):
  • Relief that someone or something unwanted is gone

Which meaning matches the phrase Go through the motions?

  • Become more accepted or successful
  • Do something without real interest or effort
  • Try any possible solution when hope is low
  • Have a complaint to discuss
Correct answer(s):
  • Do something without real interest or effort

What is the figurative meaning of Go the whole hog?

  • Start behaving badly or losing control
  • Be very busy
  • Mutual compromise
  • Do something completely and thoroughly
  • With just enough money or food to survive
Correct answer(s):
  • Do something completely and thoroughly

For SSC English, identify the meaning of Go out on a limb.

  • Take a risk by supporting or saying something
  • Get what one wants
  • Mostly; generally
  • Nobody knows; it is uncertain
Correct answer(s):
  • Take a risk by supporting or saying something

Which option gives the correct meaning of Go off the rails?

  • Act unfairly or cruelly
  • Become too excited and lose control
  • Start behaving badly or losing control
  • Fixed and not changeable
Correct answer(s):
  • Start behaving badly or losing control

Select the option that best explains Go for broke.

  • Risk everything to try to succeed
  • Be good at noticing or judging something
  • Become too excited and lose control
  • Leave or start a journey
  • Happening very quickly and energetically
Correct answer(s):
  • Risk everything to try to succeed

In English, what is meant by Go down the drain?

  • Mutual compromise
  • Be very helpful or effective
  • Have the right or chance to express an opinion
  • Be wasted or lost
Correct answer(s):
  • Be wasted or lost

Choose the correct meaning of Go astray.

  • Begin discussing the most important practical details
  • Become lost or go in the wrong direction
  • Avoid someone or something
  • Become too excited and lose control
Correct answer(s):
  • Become lost or go in the wrong direction

What does the idiom Go a long way mean?

  • Risk everything to try to succeed
  • With just enough money or food to survive
  • For a future time of need
  • Be very helpful or effective
  • Get what one wants
Correct answer(s):
  • Be very helpful or effective

Which answer best defines Give the benefit of the doubt?

  • Be ignored
  • Trust someone when the truth is uncertain
  • Very healthy and strong
  • Very jealous
Correct answer(s):
  • Trust someone when the truth is uncertain

Pick the correct meaning of the expression Give and take.

  • Become more accepted or successful
  • For a future time of need
  • Trust someone when the truth is uncertain
  • Mutual compromise
Correct answer(s):
  • Mutual compromise

What does the phrase Give a wide berth suggest?

  • Avoid someone or something
  • Try any possible solution when hope is low
  • With just enough money or food to survive
  • Take a risk by supporting or saying something
  • Enjoy a chance to do something freely or successfully
Correct answer(s):
  • Avoid someone or something

How should we understand Get wind of in a sentence?

  • From one place or person to another without success
  • Start behaving badly or losing control
  • Hear about something secret or private
  • Be very busy
Correct answer(s):
  • Hear about something secret or private

Which explanation is closest to Get down to brass tacks?

  • Begin discussing the most important practical details
  • Stopped gradually or completely
  • Hear about something secret or private
  • Start behaving badly or losing control
Correct answer(s):
  • Begin discussing the most important practical details

What idea does Get carried away usually express?

  • Obtain a first strong position
  • Have the right or chance to express an opinion
  • Become too excited and lose control
  • A subject or situation one knows well
  • Whether the result is good or bad
Correct answer(s):
  • Become too excited and lose control

Choose the best interpretation of Get away with.

  • Happening very quickly and energetically
  • Escape punishment or avoid the consequences
  • Have the right or chance to express an opinion
  • Do something completely and thoroughly
Correct answer(s):
  • Escape punishment or avoid the consequences

Which meaning matches the phrase Get a foothold?

  • Every small place
  • Rare and not happening often
  • Obtain a first strong position
  • Negotiate strongly to get a good deal
Correct answer(s):
  • Obtain a first strong position

What is the figurative meaning of Gain ground?

  • Most importantly
  • Become more accepted or successful
  • Rare and not happening often
  • For a future time of need
  • From one place or person to another without success
Correct answer(s):
  • Become more accepted or successful