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Which answer best defines Keep a low profile?

  • Avoid attracting attention
  • Very cheerful and happy
  • In serious difficulty
  • Manage to stay alive with very little money
Correct answer(s):
  • Avoid attracting attention

Pick the correct meaning of the expression It goes without saying.

  • Very quickly
  • Confused and unable to think clearly
  • At the best or strongest stage
  • It is obvious and does not need to be said
Correct answer(s):
  • It is obvious and does not need to be said

What does the phrase In the wake of suggest?

  • Following as a result of something
  • In serious difficulty
  • Without considering surrounding facts or context
  • In general idea, though not always in detail
  • Angry or annoyed
Correct answer(s):
  • Following as a result of something

How should we understand In the teeth of in a sentence?

  • Without considering surrounding facts or context
  • Avoid trouble or wrongdoing
  • Despite strong opposition or difficulty
  • In serious difficulty
Correct answer(s):
  • Despite strong opposition or difficulty

Which explanation is closest to In the red?

  • Receiving public attention
  • In debt or losing money
  • Very cheerful and happy
  • Being discussed or doubted
Correct answer(s):
  • In debt or losing money

What idea does In the pipeline usually express?

  • Angry or annoyed
  • In a difficult situation
  • Being planned or prepared
  • Hope for good luck
  • Deliberately and without emotion
Correct answer(s):
  • Being planned or prepared

Choose the best interpretation of In the limelight.

  • Receiving public attention
  • In serious difficulty
  • Despite strong opposition or difficulty
  • Being discussed or doubted
Correct answer(s):
  • Receiving public attention

Which meaning matches the phrase In the interest of?

  • Manage to stay alive with very little money
  • In a difficult situation
  • For the benefit of
  • Refuse to move back or change one’s position
Correct answer(s):
  • For the benefit of

What is the figurative meaning of In the blink of an eye?

  • Comfortable and confident doing something
  • Very quickly
  • Deliberately and without emotion
  • Act unfairly or cruelly
  • Refuse to move back or change one’s position
Correct answer(s):
  • Very quickly

For SSC English, identify the meaning of In the balance.

  • In serious difficulty
  • Chasing closely
  • Avoid trouble or wrongdoing
  • Uncertain and depending on what happens next
Correct answer(s):
  • Uncertain and depending on what happens next

Which option gives the correct meaning of In question?

  • Receiving public attention
  • Being discussed or doubted
  • Go to bed
  • Dishonestly or without sincere intention
Correct answer(s):
  • Being discussed or doubted

Select the option that best explains In principle.

  • Being discussed or doubted
  • Nobody knows; it is uncertain
  • Have no limits
  • In serious difficulty
  • In general idea, though not always in detail
Correct answer(s):
  • In general idea, though not always in detail

In English, what is meant by In one’s prime?

  • Being planned or prepared
  • At the best or strongest stage
  • Be responsible while someone else is away
  • In debt or losing money
Correct answer(s):
  • At the best or strongest stage

Choose the correct meaning of In one’s element.

  • The central or most important point
  • Avoid trouble or wrongdoing
  • Avoid attracting attention
  • Comfortable and confident doing something
Correct answer(s):
  • Comfortable and confident doing something

What does the idiom In no uncertain terms mean?

  • Manage to stay alive with very little money
  • Very clearly and directly
  • Be responsible while someone else is away
  • Being discussed or doubted
  • Being planned or prepared
Correct answer(s):
  • Very clearly and directly

Which answer best defines In lieu of?

  • Be good at noticing or judging something
  • Uncertain and depending on what happens next
  • Instead of
  • Very cheerful and happy
Correct answer(s):
  • Instead of

Pick the correct meaning of the expression In hot pursuit.

  • Chasing closely
  • Have the right or chance to express an opinion
  • Go to bed
  • In general idea, though not always in detail
Correct answer(s):
  • Chasing closely

What does the phrase In high spirits suggest?

  • Instead of
  • Be responsible while someone else is away
  • Keep an activity or discussion continuing
  • Very clearly and directly
  • Very cheerful and happy
Correct answer(s):
  • Very cheerful and happy

How should we understand In deep water in a sentence?

  • Very quickly
  • In serious difficulty
  • Angry or annoyed
  • The central or most important point
Correct answer(s):
  • In serious difficulty

Which explanation is closest to In cold blood?

  • At the best or strongest stage
  • Keep an activity or discussion continuing
  • Deliberately and without emotion
  • Very cheerful and happy
Correct answer(s):
  • Deliberately and without emotion