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Which meaning matches the phrase Cast doubt on?

  • Pass from one owner to another
  • Make someone remember something
  • Make something seem uncertain
  • Keep changing one’s opinion or attitude
Correct answer(s):
  • Make something seem uncertain

Choose the best interpretation of Cast light on.

  • Help explain or clarify something
  • Keep changing one’s opinion or attitude
  • False or insincere sadness
  • Pass from one owner to another
Correct answer(s):
  • Help explain or clarify something

What idea does Catch someone red-handed usually express?

  • Make someone remember something
  • Change financial records dishonestly
  • Catch someone while doing something wrong
  • Speak directly and honestly
  • Already decided and not likely to change
Correct answer(s):
  • Catch someone while doing something wrong

Which explanation is closest to Catch the eye?

  • Make progress by doing something original
  • Attract attention
  • Have effects on both sides
  • For the same reason
Correct answer(s):
  • Attract attention

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

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

What does the idiom Blaze a trail mean?

  • Misunderstanding each other while working toward different aims
  • Be unable to decide between two choices
  • In disagreement with
  • Be the first to do something and show the way for others
  • The main point being discussed or disputed
Correct answer(s):
  • Be the first to do something and show the way for others

Choose the correct meaning of Blind alley.

  • By means of hard effort or a particular method
  • A course of action that leads nowhere
  • Do something new or original
  • By a very small distance or amount
Correct answer(s):
  • A course of action that leads nowhere

In English, what is meant by Blow hot and cold?

  • With all belongings; completely
  • Very quickly and greatly
  • Keep changing one’s opinion or attitude
  • By means of hard effort or a particular method
Correct answer(s):
  • Keep changing one's opinion or attitude

In English, what is meant by At the receiving end?

  • When one has free time
  • Being the person who suffers or is affected by something
  • Use force, influence, knowledge, or pressure effectively
  • Force someone to obey or submit
Correct answer(s):
  • Being the person who suffers or is affected by something

Select the option that best explains Blue in the face.

  • Exhausted from arguing or trying without success
  • Make progress by doing something original
  • Angry or bitter feelings between people
  • Returning to simple and important principles
  • Create excitement, surprise, or public discussion
Correct answer(s):
  • Exhausted from arguing or trying without success