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What idea does Catch someone red-handed usually express?

  • Make someone remember something
  • Change financial records dishonestly
  • Catch someone while doing something wrong
  • Speak directly and honestly
  • Already decided and not likely to change
Correct answer(s):
  • Catch someone while doing something wrong

Which explanation is closest to Catch the eye?

  • Make progress by doing something original
  • Attract attention
  • Have effects on both sides
  • For the same reason
Correct answer(s):
  • Attract attention

How should we understand Cause a stir in a sentence?

  • Reach a crisis or decisive point
  • Change one’s opinion or attitude
  • Create excitement, surprise, or public discussion
  • An unfairly high price
Correct answer(s):
  • Create excitement, surprise, or public discussion

How should we understand Bring under control in a sentence?

  • Catch someone while doing something wrong
  • Control a difficult situation
  • Make progress by doing something original
  • Very quickly and greatly
Correct answer(s):
  • Control a difficult situation

What does the phrase Change hands suggest?

  • Pass from one owner to another
  • Receive strong criticism
  • Remove someone’s support or advantage
  • Speak directly and honestly
  • By means of hard effort or a particular method
Correct answer(s):
  • Pass from one owner to another

What does the phrase Burn one’s bridges suggest?

  • Exhausted from arguing or trying without success
  • Reach a crisis or decisive point
  • Make great progress
  • Speak directly and honestly
  • Destroy one’s chance of returning to a former situation
Correct answer(s):
  • Destroy one's chance of returning to a former situation

Pick the correct meaning of the expression Change one’s tune.

  • Disappear or change very slowly
  • Help explain or clarify something
  • Strongly opposed to something
  • Change one’s opinion or attitude
Correct answer(s):
  • Change one's opinion or attitude

Pick the correct meaning of the expression Burst into tears.

  • Suddenly begin to cry
  • Stop oneself from saying something
  • By a very small distance or amount
  • Shared opinions or interests
Correct answer(s):
  • Suddenly begin to cry

Which answer best defines Clear-cut?

  • Easy to understand and decide
  • By a very small distance or amount
  • Catch someone while doing something wrong
  • Destroy one’s chance of returning to a former situation
Correct answer(s):
  • Easy to understand and decide

Which answer best defines By a hair’s breadth?

  • Win or succeed in a contest or argument
  • Control a difficult situation
  • By a very small distance or amount
  • Pass from one owner to another
Correct answer(s):
  • By a very small distance or amount

What does the idiom Close at hand mean?

  • Have effects on both sides
  • Control a difficult situation
  • Use force, influence, knowledge, or pressure effectively
  • Very near in time or place
  • Suddenly begin to cry
Correct answer(s):
  • Very near in time or place

What does the idiom By dint of mean?

  • Speak directly and honestly
  • By means of hard effort or a particular method
  • Suddenly begin to cry
  • Control a difficult situation
  • By a very small distance or amount
Correct answer(s):
  • By means of hard effort or a particular method

Choose the correct meaning of Come a long way.

  • Make great progress
  • By means of hard effort or a particular method
  • The hottest or most tiring days of a period
  • False or insincere sadness
Correct answer(s):
  • Make great progress

Choose the correct meaning of By leaps and bounds.

  • False or insincere sadness
  • Become mature or legally adult
  • Make progress by doing something original
  • Very quickly and greatly
Correct answer(s):
  • Very quickly and greatly

In English, what is meant by Come clean?

  • Force someone to obey or submit
  • Suddenly begin to cry
  • Receive strong criticism
  • Tell the truth after hiding it
Correct answer(s):
  • Tell the truth after hiding it

In English, what is meant by By the same token?

  • False or insincere sadness
  • For the same reason
  • Fail, be defeated, or die
  • Win or succeed in a contest or argument
Correct answer(s):
  • For the same reason

Select the option that best explains Come of age.

  • Become mature or legally adult
  • Control people by making them disagree with each other
  • Receive strong criticism
  • The hottest or most tiring days of a period
  • Destroy one’s chance of returning to a former situation
Correct answer(s):
  • Become mature or legally adult

Select the option that best explains By virtue of.

  • Go beyond acceptable limits
  • Make progress by doing something original
  • Become mature or legally adult
  • Make someone remember something
  • Because of or by the authority of something
Correct answer(s):
  • Because of or by the authority of something

Which option gives the correct meaning of Call a spade a spade?

  • For the same reason
  • Speak directly and honestly
  • Become mature or legally adult
  • Watch or pressure someone very closely
Correct answer(s):
  • Speak directly and honestly

Select the option that best explains Back to basics.

  • Very hostile and ready to quarrel
  • Watch or pressure someone very closely
  • Make financial records correct or make income equal expenses
  • Suddenly begin to cry
  • Returning to simple and important principles
Correct answer(s):
  • Returning to simple and important principles