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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

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

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

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

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 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

For SSC English, identify the meaning of From pillar to post.

  • A subject or situation one knows well
  • Do something without real interest or effort
  • Fail to remember or find something
  • From one place or person to another without success
Correct answer(s):
  • From one place or person to another without success

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

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

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

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

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

Which explanation is closest to Few and far between?

  • An unfairly high price
  • Hear about something secret or private
  • Rare and not happening often
  • Be very helpful or effective
Correct answer(s):
  • Rare and not happening often

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