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Idioms & Phrases

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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 bon voyage mean?

  • a handsome fellow
  • devil’s advocate
  • have a sound sleep
  • wish you a good trip
Correct answer(s):
  • wish you a good trip

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

In the sentence, what does now and again mean?
He visits us now and again.

  • occasionally
  • every day
  • many times
  • often
Correct answer(s):
  • occasionally

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 sentence He has left the country for good mean?

  • he has left the country for foreign goods
  • he has left the country for his own benefit
  • he has left the country permanently
  • he wants to buy good things
Correct answer(s):
  • he has left the country permanently

Choose the best idiom or phrase to complete the sentence:
I want to settle the issue _____.

  • once or twice
  • once and for all
  • once again
  • once in a blue moon
Correct answer(s):
  • once and for all

In the sentence Oh my God! What a big chair., how is Oh my God! used?

  • conjunction
  • prepositional phrase
  • interjection
  • interjectional phrase
Correct answer(s):
  • interjectional phrase

In the sentence Fie! You can tell a lie., how is Fie! used?

  • conjunction
  • prepositional phrase
  • interjectional phrase
  • interjection
Correct answer(s):
  • interjection

What does the idiom or phrase took to heart mean?

  • made him quite vain
  • was deeply affected
  • was deeply cheered
  • cheered himself up
Correct answer(s):
  • was deeply affected

What does the idiom or phrase heart in the right place mean?

  • means well and is kindly or sympathetic
  • faithful to their employers
  • appealed deeply to them
  • out of favor with him
Correct answer(s):
  • means well and is kindly or sympathetic

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