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Select the option that best explains Every inch.

  • Completely or in every way
  • Produce very good results
  • Very healthy and strong
  • Rare and not happening often
  • Try to gain advantage from a confused situation
Correct answer(s):
  • Completely or in every way

Which option gives the correct meaning of From hand to mouth?

  • With just enough money or food to survive
  • Fail to remember or find something
  • Avoid someone or something
  • From one place or person to another without success
Correct answer(s):
  • With just enough money or food to survive

Which option gives the correct meaning of Every nook and cranny?

  • An unfairly high price
  • Produce very good results
  • Strongly opposed to something
  • Every small place
Correct answer(s):
  • Every small place

For SSC English, identify the meaning of From pillar to post.

  • A subject or situation one knows well
  • Do something without real interest or effort
  • Fail to remember or find something
  • From one place or person to another without success
Correct answer(s):
  • From one place or person to another without success

For SSC English, identify the meaning of Fair and square.

  • Mutual compromise
  • Honestly and according to the rules
  • Avoid someone or something
  • Have effects on both sides
Correct answer(s):
  • Honestly and according to the rules

What is the figurative meaning of Fall on deaf ears?

  • From one place or person to another without success
  • Avoid someone or something
  • False or insincere sadness
  • Be ignored
  • In all practical ways
Correct answer(s):
  • Be ignored

Which meaning matches the phrase Familiar ground?

  • Disappear or change very slowly
  • A subject or situation one knows well
  • Mutual compromise
  • Honestly and according to the rules
Correct answer(s):
  • A subject or situation one knows well

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

Choose the best interpretation of Common ground.

  • Refuse to change one’s mind
  • Admit that what one said was wrong
  • Shared opinions or interests
  • Completely or in every way
Correct answer(s):
  • Shared opinions or interests

What idea does Dog days usually express?

  • Rare and not happening often
  • Very healthy and strong
  • The hottest or most tiring days of a period
  • Have effects on both sides
  • Very near in time or place
Correct answer(s):
  • The hottest or most tiring days of a period

What idea does Cook the books usually express?

  • Catch someone while doing something wrong
  • Make something seem uncertain
  • Change financial records dishonestly
  • Speak directly and honestly
  • Remove someone’s support or advantage
Correct answer(s):
  • Change financial records dishonestly

Which explanation is closest to Down and out?

  • Without money, work, or hope
  • Completely or in every way
  • Shared opinions or interests
  • Reach a crisis or decisive point
Correct answer(s):
  • Without money, work, or hope

Which explanation is closest to Cool one’s heels?

  • Very near in time or place
  • Bring something to an end
  • An unfairly high price
  • Wait for a long time
Correct answer(s):
  • Wait for a long time

How should we understand Draw a blank in a sentence?

  • A subject or situation one knows well
  • Fail or end badly
  • Without money, work, or hope
  • Fail to remember or find something
Correct answer(s):
  • Fail to remember or find something

How should we understand Crocodile tears in a sentence?

  • For the same reason
  • False or insincere sadness
  • Reach a crisis or decisive point
  • Cause doubt about something
Correct answer(s):
  • False or insincere sadness

What does the phrase Cross the line suggest?

  • The hottest or most tiring days of a period
  • Speak directly and honestly
  • Be ignored
  • Without money, work, or hope
  • Go beyond acceptable limits
Correct answer(s):
  • Go beyond acceptable limits

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