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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

What is the figurative meaning of Come to the point?

  • Create excitement, surprise, or public discussion
  • Change financial records dishonestly
  • A very small amount compared with what is needed
  • Speak directly about the main matter
  • Make great progress
Correct answer(s):
  • Speak directly about the main matter

Which meaning matches the phrase Do more harm than good?

  • Without money, work, or hope
  • Do the same thing as someone else
  • Refuse to change one’s mind
  • Cause more damage than benefit
Correct answer(s):
  • Cause more damage than benefit

Which meaning matches the phrase Come under fire?

  • Receive strong criticism
  • Wait for a long time
  • Change one’s opinion or attitude
  • Fail to remember or find something
Correct answer(s):
  • Receive strong criticism

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

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

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