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Choose the correct meaning of Cut the ground from under one’s feet.

  • Win or succeed in a contest or argument
  • Every small place
  • Remove someone’s support or advantage
  • Become mature or legally adult
Correct answer(s):
  • Remove someone's support or advantage

In English, what is meant by Daylight robbery?

  • An unfairly high price
  • Make great progress
  • False or insincere sadness
  • Bring something to an end
Correct answer(s):
  • An unfairly high price

Select the option that best explains Dead set against.

  • Bravery gained from drinking alcohol
  • Most importantly
  • Admit that what one said was wrong
  • Rare and not happening often
  • Strongly opposed to something
Correct answer(s):
  • Strongly opposed to something

Which option gives the correct meaning of Die hard?

  • Try to gain advantage from a confused situation
  • Disappear or change very slowly
  • Bring something to an end
  • Pass from one owner to another
Correct answer(s):
  • Disappear or change very slowly

Which option gives the correct meaning of Come to a head?

  • Make great progress
  • Have effects on both sides
  • Reach a crisis or decisive point
  • False or insincere sadness
Correct answer(s):
  • Reach a crisis or decisive point

For SSC English, identify the meaning of Dig one’s heels in.

  • Be ignored
  • For a future time of need
  • Refuse to change one’s mind
  • Strongly opposed to something
Correct answer(s):
  • Refuse to change one's mind

Which option gives the correct meaning of Call a spade a spade?

  • For the same reason
  • Speak directly and honestly
  • Become mature or legally adult
  • Watch or pressure someone very closely
Correct answer(s):
  • Speak directly and honestly

For SSC English, identify the meaning of Call into question.

  • By a very small distance or amount
  • Try very hard to help or please someone
  • Become mature or legally adult
  • Cause doubt about something
Correct answer(s):
  • Cause doubt about something

What is the figurative meaning of Carry the day?

  • Pass from one owner to another
  • Win or succeed in a contest or argument
  • Stop oneself from saying something
  • Fail or end badly
  • Not relevant to the matter being discussed
Correct answer(s):
  • Win or succeed in a contest or argument

Which meaning matches the phrase Cast doubt on?

  • Pass from one owner to another
  • Make someone remember something
  • Make something seem uncertain
  • Keep changing one’s opinion or attitude
Correct answer(s):
  • Make something seem uncertain

Choose the best interpretation of Cast light on.

  • Help explain or clarify something
  • Keep changing one’s opinion or attitude
  • False or insincere sadness
  • Pass from one owner to another
Correct answer(s):
  • Help explain or clarify something

What idea does Catch someone red-handed usually express?

  • Make someone remember something
  • Change financial records dishonestly
  • Catch someone while doing something wrong
  • Speak directly and honestly
  • Already decided and not likely to change
Correct answer(s):
  • Catch someone while doing something wrong

Which explanation is closest to Catch the eye?

  • Make progress by doing something original
  • Attract attention
  • Have effects on both sides
  • For the same reason
Correct answer(s):
  • Attract attention

How should we understand Cause a stir in a sentence?

  • Reach a crisis or decisive point
  • Change one’s opinion or attitude
  • Create excitement, surprise, or public discussion
  • An unfairly high price
Correct answer(s):
  • Create excitement, surprise, or public discussion

How should we understand Bring under control in a sentence?

  • Catch someone while doing something wrong
  • Control a difficult situation
  • Make progress by doing something original
  • Very quickly and greatly
Correct answer(s):
  • Control a difficult situation

What does the phrase Change hands suggest?

  • Pass from one owner to another
  • Receive strong criticism
  • Remove someone’s support or advantage
  • Speak directly and honestly
  • By means of hard effort or a particular method
Correct answer(s):
  • Pass from one owner to another

What does the phrase Burn one’s bridges suggest?

  • Exhausted from arguing or trying without success
  • Reach a crisis or decisive point
  • Make great progress
  • Speak directly and honestly
  • Destroy one’s chance of returning to a former situation
Correct answer(s):
  • Destroy one's chance of returning to a former situation

Pick the correct meaning of the expression Change one’s tune.

  • Disappear or change very slowly
  • Help explain or clarify something
  • Strongly opposed to something
  • Change one’s opinion or attitude
Correct answer(s):
  • Change one's opinion or attitude

Pick the correct meaning of the expression Burst into tears.

  • Suddenly begin to cry
  • Stop oneself from saying something
  • By a very small distance or amount
  • Shared opinions or interests
Correct answer(s):
  • Suddenly begin to cry

Which answer best defines Clear-cut?

  • Easy to understand and decide
  • By a very small distance or amount
  • Catch someone while doing something wrong
  • Destroy one’s chance of returning to a former situation
Correct answer(s):
  • Easy to understand and decide