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Choose the best interpretation of Far from it.

  • Have effects on both sides
  • Without money, work, or hope
  • Control people by making them disagree with each other
  • Not at all; the opposite is true
Correct answer(s):
  • Not at all; the opposite is true

What idea does Fast and furious usually express?

  • An unfairly high price
  • Refuse to change one’s mind
  • Happening very quickly and energetically
  • Bring something to an end
  • Very healthy and strong
Correct answer(s):
  • Happening very quickly and energetically

Which explanation is closest to Few and far between?

  • An unfairly high price
  • Hear about something secret or private
  • Rare and not happening often
  • Be very helpful or effective
Correct answer(s):
  • Rare and not happening often

How should we understand First and foremost in a sentence?

  • Most importantly
  • A subject or situation one knows well
  • Mutual compromise
  • Control people by making them disagree with each other
Correct answer(s):
  • Most importantly

What does the phrase Fish in troubled waters suggest?

  • Control people by making them disagree with each other
  • Avoid someone or something
  • Whether the result is good or bad
  • Bravery gained from drinking alcohol
  • Try to gain advantage from a confused situation
Correct answer(s):
  • Try to gain advantage from a confused situation

What does the phrase Draw the curtain on suggest?

  • Bring something to an end
  • Completely or in every way
  • A very enthusiastic and hardworking person
  • An unfairly high price
  • Change financial records dishonestly
Correct answer(s):
  • Bring something to an end

Pick the correct meaning of the expression Fit as a fiddle.

  • Be ignored
  • Very healthy and strong
  • Start behaving badly or losing control
  • Mutual compromise
Correct answer(s):
  • Very healthy and strong

Pick the correct meaning of the expression Drive a hard bargain.

  • Complain about something that cannot be changed
  • In all practical ways
  • Negotiate strongly to get a good deal
  • An unfairly high price
Correct answer(s):
  • Negotiate strongly to get a good deal

Which answer best defines Follow suit?

  • Start behaving badly or losing control
  • Take a risk by supporting or saying something
  • Do the same thing as someone else
  • Become too excited and lose control
Correct answer(s):
  • Do the same thing as someone else

Pick the correct meaning of the expression Cry over spilt milk.

  • Shared opinions or interests
  • Complain about something that cannot be changed
  • Create excitement, surprise, or public discussion
  • Speak directly about the main matter
Correct answer(s):
  • Complain about something that cannot be changed

Which answer best defines Cut and dried?

  • Go beyond acceptable limits
  • Strongly opposed to something
  • Fail to remember or find something
  • Already decided and not likely to change
Correct answer(s):
  • Already decided and not likely to change

What does the idiom Cut both ways mean?

  • Very near in time or place
  • Have effects on both sides
  • Speak directly about the main matter
  • Cause more damage than benefit
  • A very small amount compared with what is needed
Correct answer(s):
  • Have effects on both sides

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

For SSC English, identify the meaning of Come to grief.

  • Cause more damage than benefit
  • Fail or end badly
  • Receive strong criticism
  • Win or succeed in a contest or argument
Correct answer(s):
  • Fail or end badly

What is the figurative meaning of Divide and rule?

  • Tell the truth after hiding it
  • Control people by making them disagree with each other
  • Remove someone’s support or advantage
  • Change one’s opinion or attitude
  • Refuse to change one’s mind
Correct answer(s):
  • Control people by making them disagree with each other