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What idea does In bad faith usually express?

  • Make the final decision or final remark
  • Remain cheerful in a difficult time
  • Dishonestly or without sincere intention
  • Very clearly and directly
  • Without considering surrounding facts or context
Correct answer(s):
  • Dishonestly or without sincere intention

Which explanation is closest to In the red?

  • Receiving public attention
  • In debt or losing money
  • Very cheerful and happy
  • Being discussed or doubted
Correct answer(s):
  • In debt or losing money

Which explanation is closest to In cold blood?

  • At the best or strongest stage
  • Keep an activity or discussion continuing
  • Deliberately and without emotion
  • Very cheerful and happy
Correct answer(s):
  • Deliberately and without emotion

How should we understand In the teeth of in a sentence?

  • Without considering surrounding facts or context
  • Avoid trouble or wrongdoing
  • Despite strong opposition or difficulty
  • In serious difficulty
Correct answer(s):
  • Despite strong opposition or difficulty

How should we understand In deep water in a sentence?

  • Very quickly
  • In serious difficulty
  • Angry or annoyed
  • The central or most important point
Correct answer(s):
  • In serious difficulty

What does the phrase In the wake of suggest?

  • Following as a result of something
  • In serious difficulty
  • Without considering surrounding facts or context
  • In general idea, though not always in detail
  • Angry or annoyed
Correct answer(s):
  • Following as a result of something

What does the phrase In high spirits suggest?

  • Instead of
  • Be responsible while someone else is away
  • Keep an activity or discussion continuing
  • Very clearly and directly
  • Very cheerful and happy
Correct answer(s):
  • Very cheerful and happy

Pick the correct meaning of the expression In hot pursuit.

  • Chasing closely
  • Have the right or chance to express an opinion
  • Go to bed
  • In general idea, though not always in detail
Correct answer(s):
  • Chasing closely

Which answer best defines In lieu of?

  • Be good at noticing or judging something
  • Uncertain and depending on what happens next
  • Instead of
  • Very cheerful and happy
Correct answer(s):
  • Instead of

What does the idiom In no uncertain terms mean?

  • Manage to stay alive with very little money
  • Very clearly and directly
  • Be responsible while someone else is away
  • Being discussed or doubted
  • Being planned or prepared
Correct answer(s):
  • Very clearly and directly

Choose the correct meaning of In one’s element.

  • The central or most important point
  • Avoid trouble or wrongdoing
  • Avoid attracting attention
  • Comfortable and confident doing something
Correct answer(s):
  • Comfortable and confident doing something

In English, what is meant by In one’s prime?

  • Being planned or prepared
  • At the best or strongest stage
  • Be responsible while someone else is away
  • In debt or losing money
Correct answer(s):
  • At the best or strongest stage

Select the option that best explains In principle.

  • Being discussed or doubted
  • Nobody knows; it is uncertain
  • Have no limits
  • In serious difficulty
  • In general idea, though not always in detail
Correct answer(s):
  • In general idea, though not always in detail

In English, what is meant by Have a field day?

  • Try any possible solution when hope is low
  • Enjoy a chance to do something freely or successfully
  • Risk everything to try to succeed
  • Be wasted or lost
Correct answer(s):
  • Enjoy a chance to do something freely or successfully

Select the option that best explains In a bind.

  • In a difficult situation
  • Uncertain and depending on what happens next
  • Try any possible solution when hope is low
  • Make the final decision or final remark
  • In serious difficulty
Correct answer(s):
  • In a difficult situation

Select the option that best explains Have a say.

  • Take a risk by supporting or saying something
  • Without considering surrounding facts or context
  • Become too excited and lose control
  • Dishonestly or without sincere intention
  • Have the right or chance to express an opinion
Correct answer(s):
  • Have the right or chance to express an opinion

Which option gives the correct meaning of In a dilemma?

  • Uncertain and depending on what happens next
  • Despite strong opposition or difficulty
  • Being discussed or doubted
  • Unable to choose between two difficult options
Correct answer(s):
  • Unable to choose between two difficult options

Which option gives the correct meaning of Have an eye for?

  • Be good at noticing or judging something
  • Get what one wants
  • Make a process easier or faster
  • Relief that someone or something unwanted is gone
Correct answer(s):
  • Be good at noticing or judging something

For SSC English, identify the meaning of In a flash.

  • Very quickly
  • In serious difficulty
  • Be responsible while someone else is away
  • Deliberately and without emotion
Correct answer(s):
  • Very quickly

For SSC English, identify the meaning of Have no bearing on.

  • Hear about something secret or private
  • Relief that someone or something unwanted is gone
  • Have no connection or effect
  • Working very closely together, often secretly
Correct answer(s):
  • Have no connection or effect