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Pick the correct interpretation of Call off.

  • to cancel something
  • to have a friendly relationship with someone
  • disorganized or scattered everywhere
  • the hidden or implied meaning
Correct answer(s):
  • to cancel something

Choose the meaning that fits Call on.

  • to mean or suggest indirectly
  • someone who criticizes without practical experience
  • to ask someone to speak, answer, visit, or act
  • impossible to obtain or too difficult to achieve
Correct answer(s):
  • to ask someone to speak, answer, visit, or act

The idiom Carry out is closest in meaning to which option?

  • to start doing something seriously
  • to perform or complete a task
  • a very difficult job or challenge
  • to boast about one’s own achievements
Correct answer(s):
  • to perform or complete a task

Which choice defines Catch sight of most accurately?

  • to contact someone
  • very healthy and strong
  • to see something briefly
  • to have something as the main point or result
Correct answer(s):
  • to see something briefly

Which option best explains the idiom Come about?

  • to become involved in difficulty or punishment
  • by chance, either fortunately or unfortunately
  • to happen
  • born into a rich or privileged family
Correct answer(s):
  • to happen

What is the figurative meaning of Come forward?

  • to remove or throw away something unwanted
  • to offer help or information
  • at a point where an important choice must be made
  • to stop working or fail to function
Correct answer(s):
  • to offer help or information

Choose the correct meaning of Break out.

  • to fail to reach a standard or amount
  • a way to ask what someone is thinking
  • to withdraw from a promise or agreement
  • to start suddenly
Correct answer(s):
  • to start suddenly

What does the phrase Come off usually suggest?

  • to defeat or overpower someone or something
  • very slowly
  • to enter a place by force
  • to succeed or happen as planned
Correct answer(s):
  • to succeed or happen as planned

How should a reader understand Break through?

  • to feel sad
  • a good person with an unpolished manner
  • to support someone or confirm what they say
  • to overcome a barrier or make important progress
Correct answer(s):
  • to overcome a barrier or make important progress

What does the expression Come out mean?

  • an easy and pleasant situation
  • as something appears, without deeper questioning
  • to start suddenly
  • to be published, revealed, or become known
Correct answer(s):
  • to be published, revealed, or become known

What is the correct sense of Bring about?

  • to fight or try very hard
  • to cause something to happen
  • a guess made with little information
  • to listen with full attention
Correct answer(s):
  • to cause something to happen

Which meaning correctly matches Come round?

  • a sudden and unexpected event
  • in strong disagreement
  • to overcome a barrier or make important progress
  • to change one’s opinion or agree after some time
Correct answer(s):
  • to change one's opinion or agree after some time

In English usage, what is meant by Bring down?

  • to become confident in a new situation
  • an accidental mistake in speaking
  • to be overwhelmed by strong emotion
  • to reduce or cause something to fall
Correct answer(s):
  • to reduce or cause something to fall

Which option has the same meaning as Come up against?

  • a welcome and refreshing change
  • easily available or ready to use
  • to face a difficulty or opposition
  • to cause something to happen
Correct answer(s):
  • to face a difficulty or opposition

What does Be on the alert mean in common English?

  • to show or treat something as well as it deserves
  • to be watchful and ready for danger or action
  • to start doing something seriously
  • disorganized or scattered everywhere
Correct answer(s):
  • to be watchful and ready for danger or action

Select the best meaning for the phrase Bear fruit.

  • to solve the problem or work successfully
  • to produce good results
  • to contact someone
  • someone who criticizes without practical experience
Correct answer(s):
  • to produce good results

Pick the correct interpretation of Bear the brunt.

  • sad or unhappy
  • to become involved in difficulty or punishment
  • to suffer the worst part of something
  • a very difficult job or challenge
Correct answer(s):
  • to suffer the worst part of something

Choose the meaning that fits Beat the clock.

  • to prepare a written document, plan, or list
  • to remove or throw away something unwanted
  • to finish something before a deadline
  • very healthy and strong
Correct answer(s):
  • to finish something before a deadline

What does the phrase At a crossroads usually suggest?

  • to see something briefly
  • to fail to reach a standard or amount
  • at a point where an important choice must be made
  • a person cannot easily change their true character
Correct answer(s):
  • at a point where an important choice must be made

The idiom Better half is closest in meaning to which option?

  • to annoy someone very much
  • to defeat or overpower someone or something
  • by chance, either fortunately or unfortunately
  • one’s husband, wife, or life partner
Correct answer(s):
  • one's husband, wife, or life partner