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What does the idiom or phrase hitting below the belt mean?

  • striking someone in the abdomen
  • injuring someone fatally
  • doing something unfair in a competition
  • beating someone in a competition
Correct answer(s):
  • doing something unfair in a competition

What does the idiom or phrase meet one's Waterloo mean?

  • to meet a strong adversary
  • to meet one’s final defeat
  • to die fighting
  • to fulfill a strong desire
Correct answer(s):
  • to meet one's final defeat

What does a Machiavellian character mean?

  • a cunning person
  • an honest person
  • a romantic person
  • a wise person
Correct answer(s):
  • a cunning person

What does the idiom or phrase apple of discord mean?

  • an attractive object
  • object of dispute
  • a friendly agreement
  • a valuable object
Correct answer(s):
  • object of dispute

What does the phrase coming to the front mean?

  • disturbed the working of
  • attaining prominence
  • made him quite vain
  • in keeping
Correct answer(s):
  • attaining prominence

What does the idiom or phrase gall and wormwood mean?

  • hateful
  • out of favor with him
  • deeply appealed to them
  • in keeping
Correct answer(s):
  • hateful

What does the idiom or phrase thrown out of gear mean?

  • disturbed the working of
  • with all our power
  • made him quite vain
  • out of favor with him
  • in keeping
Correct answer(s):
  • disturbed the working of

What does the phrase went home mean in idiomatic use?

  • made money very rapidly
  • deeply appealed to
  • faithful to their employers
  • in keeping
Correct answer(s):
  • deeply appealed to

What does the idiom or phrase coining money mean?

  • in keeping
  • out of favor with him
  • making money very rapidly
  • in favor with someone
Correct answer(s):
  • making money very rapidly

What does the phrase in character mean?

  • made him quite vain
  • in keeping
  • faithful to their employers
  • pay for it
  • with all our power
Correct answer(s):
  • in keeping

What does the idiom or phrase quite at sea mean?

  • perplexed and at a loss about what to do
  • made him quite vain
  • with all our power
  • faithful to their employers
  • ran off
Correct answer(s):
  • perplexed and at a loss about what to do

What does the idiom or phrase stand in one's own light mean?

  • remain ignorant
  • pay for it
  • use all our power
  • make a mistake socially
  • act against one’s own interests and hinder one’s own advancement
Correct answer(s):
  • act against one's own interests and hinder one's own advancement

What does the phrase by long odds mean?

  • ran off
  • in ignorance
  • most decidedly
  • faithful to their employers
  • made him quite vain
Correct answer(s):
  • most decidedly