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Choose the best interpretation of Do wonders.

  • Produce very good results
  • Have effects on both sides
  • Admit that what one said was wrong
  • Completely or in every way
Correct answer(s):
  • Produce very good results

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

Which answer best defines By a hair’s breadth?

  • Win or succeed in a contest or argument
  • Control a difficult situation
  • By a very small distance or amount
  • Pass from one owner to another
Correct answer(s):
  • By a very small distance or amount

What does the idiom Close at hand mean?

  • Have effects on both sides
  • Control a difficult situation
  • Use force, influence, knowledge, or pressure effectively
  • Very near in time or place
  • Suddenly begin to cry
Correct answer(s):
  • Very near in time or place

What does the idiom By dint of mean?

  • Speak directly and honestly
  • By means of hard effort or a particular method
  • Suddenly begin to cry
  • Control a difficult situation
  • By a very small distance or amount
Correct answer(s):
  • By means of hard effort or a particular method

Choose the correct meaning of Come a long way.

  • Make great progress
  • By means of hard effort or a particular method
  • The hottest or most tiring days of a period
  • False or insincere sadness
Correct answer(s):
  • Make great progress

Choose the correct meaning of By leaps and bounds.

  • False or insincere sadness
  • Become mature or legally adult
  • Make progress by doing something original
  • Very quickly and greatly
Correct answer(s):
  • Very quickly and greatly

In English, what is meant by Come clean?

  • Force someone to obey or submit
  • Suddenly begin to cry
  • Receive strong criticism
  • Tell the truth after hiding it
Correct answer(s):
  • Tell the truth after hiding it

In English, what is meant by By the same token?

  • False or insincere sadness
  • For the same reason
  • Fail, be defeated, or die
  • Win or succeed in a contest or argument
Correct answer(s):
  • For the same reason

Select the option that best explains Come of age.

  • Become mature or legally adult
  • Control people by making them disagree with each other
  • Receive strong criticism
  • The hottest or most tiring days of a period
  • Destroy one’s chance of returning to a former situation
Correct answer(s):
  • Become mature or legally adult