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How should we understand High and dry in a sentence?

  • Act unfairly or cruelly
  • Become lost or go in the wrong direction
  • At the best or strongest stage
  • Left helpless or without support
Correct answer(s):
  • Left helpless or without support

What does the phrase Hit below the belt suggest?

  • Act unfairly or cruelly
  • Being discussed or doubted
  • In general idea, though not always in detail
  • Deliberately and without emotion
  • Very quickly
Correct answer(s):
  • Act unfairly or cruelly

Pick the correct meaning of the expression Hit the road.

  • Chasing closely
  • Stopped gradually or completely
  • Leave or start a journey
  • Instead of
Correct answer(s):
  • Leave or start a journey

Which answer best defines Hit the sack?

  • Go to bed
  • Very clearly and directly
  • Enjoy a chance to do something freely or successfully
  • Comfortable and confident doing something
Correct answer(s):
  • Go to bed

What does the idiom Hold one’s ground mean?

  • Stopped gradually or completely
  • Get what one wants
  • Being discussed or doubted
  • Refuse to move back or change one’s position
  • Angry or annoyed
Correct answer(s):
  • Refuse to move back or change one's position

What does the idiom Hard and fast mean?

  • Make a process easier or faster
  • Fixed and not changeable
  • Stuck in a boring fixed routine
  • Go to bed
  • Hear about something secret or private
Correct answer(s):
  • Fixed and not changeable

Choose the correct meaning of Hold the fort.

  • Dishonestly or without sincere intention
  • Be responsible while someone else is away
  • Stopped gradually or completely
  • Very quickly
Correct answer(s):
  • Be responsible while someone else is away

Choose the correct meaning of Have a bone to pick.

  • Be very busy
  • Become lost or go in the wrong direction
  • Have a complaint to discuss
  • Stopped gradually or completely
Correct answer(s):
  • Have a complaint to discuss

In English, what is meant by Hot under the collar?

  • Nobody knows; it is uncertain
  • In serious difficulty
  • Angry or annoyed
  • Have no connection or effect
Correct answer(s):
  • Angry or annoyed

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

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

For SSC English, identify the meaning of Go out on a limb.

  • Take a risk by supporting or saying something
  • Get what one wants
  • Mostly; generally
  • Nobody knows; it is uncertain
Correct answer(s):
  • Take a risk by supporting or saying something

What is the figurative meaning of Go the whole hog?

  • Start behaving badly or losing control
  • Be very busy
  • Mutual compromise
  • Do something completely and thoroughly
  • With just enough money or food to survive
Correct answer(s):
  • Do something completely and thoroughly

What is the figurative meaning of Gain ground?

  • Most importantly
  • Become more accepted or successful
  • Rare and not happening often
  • For a future time of need
  • From one place or person to another without success
Correct answer(s):
  • Become more accepted or successful

Which meaning matches the phrase Go through the motions?

  • Become more accepted or successful
  • Do something without real interest or effort
  • Try any possible solution when hope is low
  • Have a complaint to discuss
Correct answer(s):
  • Do something without real interest or effort