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How should we understand Green with envy in a sentence?

  • Very jealous
  • Have a complaint to discuss
  • Without full interest or effort
  • Try any possible solution when hope is low
Correct answer(s):
  • Very jealous

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

What does the phrase Ground to a halt suggest?

  • Make the final decision or final remark
  • Escape punishment or avoid the consequences
  • Enjoy a chance to do something freely or successfully
  • Be good at noticing or judging something
  • Stopped gradually or completely
Correct answer(s):
  • Stopped gradually or completely

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

Pick the correct meaning of the expression Half-hearted.

  • Without full interest or effort
  • Trust someone when the truth is uncertain
  • Mostly; generally
  • Have a complaint to discuss
Correct answer(s):
  • Without full interest or effort

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

Which answer best defines Hand in glove?

  • Enjoy a chance to do something freely or successfully
  • Go to bed
  • Begin discussing the most important practical details
  • Working very closely together, often secretly
Correct answer(s):
  • Working very closely together, often secretly

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

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 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

What does the idiom For a rainy day mean?

  • Mutual compromise
  • For a future time of need
  • A very enthusiastic and hardworking person
  • Begin discussing the most important practical details
  • Do the same thing as someone else
Correct answer(s):
  • For a future time of need

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

Choose the correct meaning of For all intents and purposes.

  • Mutual compromise
  • Escape punishment or avoid the consequences
  • Without money, work, or hope
  • In all practical ways
Correct answer(s):
  • In all practical ways

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

In English, what is meant by For better or worse?

  • Whether the result is good or bad
  • Trust someone when the truth is uncertain
  • Honestly and according to the rules
  • Very healthy and strong
Correct answer(s):
  • Whether the result is good or bad

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

Select the option that best explains For the most part.

  • Bring something to an end
  • Avoid someone or something
  • Risk everything to try to succeed
  • Very jealous
  • Mostly; generally
Correct answer(s):
  • Mostly; generally

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

Which option gives the correct meaning of From hand to mouth?

  • With just enough money or food to survive
  • Fail to remember or find something
  • Avoid someone or something
  • From one place or person to another without success
Correct answer(s):
  • With just enough money or food to survive

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