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What is the correct sense of Cut a long story short?

  • a person cannot easily change their true character
  • to withdraw from a promise or agreement
  • to tell only the main points
  • to reveal, publish, or make something noticeable
Correct answer(s):
  • to tell only the main points

What idea is usually expressed by Bring something to a close?

  • to hurry or start moving faster
  • to finish or end something
  • to make sense or be logically correct
  • to suffer the worst part of something
Correct answer(s):
  • to finish or end something

In English usage, what is meant by Cut no ice?

  • to have no effect or influence
  • renewed energy or a fresh chance to live better
  • to support someone or confirm what they say
  • to persuade someone to agree
Correct answer(s):
  • to have no effect or influence

What does Build castles in the air mean in common English?

  • to communicate an idea clearly
  • threatening in words but not harmful in action
  • to make unrealistic dreams or plans
  • to finish something before a deadline
Correct answer(s):
  • to make unrealistic dreams or plans

Which option shows the proper meaning of Cut out for?

  • naturally suited for a particular role or work
  • a way to ask what someone is thinking
  • to listen with full attention
  • to finish or end something
Correct answer(s):
  • naturally suited for a particular role or work

Select the best meaning for the phrase Call for.

  • to make progress or become successful
  • at the proper time, not immediately
  • one’s husband, wife, or life partner
  • to require or demand something
Correct answer(s):
  • to require or demand something

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

Which choice best matches the idiomatic use of Be all ears?

  • to tell only the main points
  • to make progress or become successful
  • to listen with full attention
  • to make sense or be logically correct
Correct answer(s):
  • to listen with full attention

Which answer gives the closest meaning of Be beside oneself?

  • to be overwhelmed by strong emotion
  • to have no effect or influence
  • to have a friendly relationship with someone
  • threatening in words but not harmful in action
Correct answer(s):
  • to be overwhelmed by strong emotion

What idea is usually expressed by Be in a fix?

  • naturally suited for a particular role or work
  • to be in a difficult situation
  • to mean or suggest indirectly
  • at the proper time, not immediately
Correct answer(s):
  • to be in a difficult situation

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