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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

How should we understand First and foremost in a sentence?

  • Most importantly
  • A subject or situation one knows well
  • Mutual compromise
  • Control people by making them disagree with each other
Correct answer(s):
  • Most importantly

What does the phrase Fish in troubled waters suggest?

  • Control people by making them disagree with each other
  • Avoid someone or something
  • Whether the result is good or bad
  • Bravery gained from drinking alcohol
  • Try to gain advantage from a confused situation
Correct answer(s):
  • Try to gain advantage from a confused situation

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

Pick the correct meaning of the expression Fit as a fiddle.

  • Be ignored
  • Very healthy and strong
  • Start behaving badly or losing control
  • Mutual compromise
Correct answer(s):
  • Very healthy and strong

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

Which answer best defines Follow suit?

  • Start behaving badly or losing control
  • Take a risk by supporting or saying something
  • Do the same thing as someone else
  • Become too excited and lose control
Correct answer(s):
  • Do the same thing as someone else

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