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Which meaning matches the phrase In the interest of?

  • Manage to stay alive with very little money
  • In a difficult situation
  • For the benefit of
  • Refuse to move back or change one’s position
Correct answer(s):
  • For the benefit of

Which meaning matches the phrase In a rut?

  • Stuck in a boring fixed routine
  • Without full interest or effort
  • Be good at noticing or judging something
  • The central or most important point
Correct answer(s):
  • Stuck in a boring fixed routine

Choose the best interpretation of In the limelight.

  • Receiving public attention
  • In serious difficulty
  • Despite strong opposition or difficulty
  • Being discussed or doubted
Correct answer(s):
  • Receiving public attention

Choose the best interpretation of In a vacuum.

  • In general idea, though not always in detail
  • Get what one wants
  • Fixed and not changeable
  • Without considering surrounding facts or context
Correct answer(s):
  • Without considering surrounding facts or context

What idea does In the pipeline usually express?

  • Angry or annoyed
  • In a difficult situation
  • Being planned or prepared
  • Hope for good luck
  • Deliberately and without emotion
Correct answer(s):
  • Being planned or prepared

What idea does In bad faith usually express?

  • Make the final decision or final remark
  • Remain cheerful in a difficult time
  • Dishonestly or without sincere intention
  • Very clearly and directly
  • Without considering surrounding facts or context
Correct answer(s):
  • Dishonestly or without sincere intention

Which explanation is closest to In the red?

  • Receiving public attention
  • In debt or losing money
  • Very cheerful and happy
  • Being discussed or doubted
Correct answer(s):
  • In debt or losing money

Which explanation is closest to In cold blood?

  • At the best or strongest stage
  • Keep an activity or discussion continuing
  • Deliberately and without emotion
  • Very cheerful and happy
Correct answer(s):
  • Deliberately and without emotion

How should we understand In the teeth of in a sentence?

  • Without considering surrounding facts or context
  • Avoid trouble or wrongdoing
  • Despite strong opposition or difficulty
  • In serious difficulty
Correct answer(s):
  • Despite strong opposition or difficulty

How should we understand In deep water in a sentence?

  • Very quickly
  • In serious difficulty
  • Angry or annoyed
  • The central or most important point
Correct answer(s):
  • In serious difficulty

What does the phrase In the wake of suggest?

  • Following as a result of something
  • In serious difficulty
  • Without considering surrounding facts or context
  • In general idea, though not always in detail
  • Angry or annoyed
Correct answer(s):
  • Following as a result of something

What does the phrase In high spirits suggest?

  • Instead of
  • Be responsible while someone else is away
  • Keep an activity or discussion continuing
  • Very clearly and directly
  • Very cheerful and happy
Correct answer(s):
  • Very cheerful and happy

Pick the correct meaning of the expression In hot pursuit.

  • Chasing closely
  • Have the right or chance to express an opinion
  • Go to bed
  • In general idea, though not always in detail
Correct answer(s):
  • Chasing closely

Pick the correct meaning of the expression Hit the road.

  • Chasing closely
  • Stopped gradually or completely
  • Leave or start a journey
  • Instead of
Correct answer(s):
  • Leave or start a journey

Which answer best defines Hit the sack?

  • Go to bed
  • Very clearly and directly
  • Enjoy a chance to do something freely or successfully
  • Comfortable and confident doing something
Correct answer(s):
  • Go to bed

What does the idiom Hold one’s ground mean?

  • Stopped gradually or completely
  • Get what one wants
  • Being discussed or doubted
  • Refuse to move back or change one’s position
  • Angry or annoyed
Correct answer(s):
  • Refuse to move back or change one's position

What does the idiom Hard and fast mean?

  • Make a process easier or faster
  • Fixed and not changeable
  • Stuck in a boring fixed routine
  • Go to bed
  • Hear about something secret or private
Correct answer(s):
  • Fixed and not changeable

Choose the correct meaning of Hold the fort.

  • Dishonestly or without sincere intention
  • Be responsible while someone else is away
  • Stopped gradually or completely
  • Very quickly
Correct answer(s):
  • Be responsible while someone else is away

Choose the correct meaning of Have a bone to pick.

  • Be very busy
  • Become lost or go in the wrong direction
  • Have a complaint to discuss
  • Stopped gradually or completely
Correct answer(s):
  • Have a complaint to discuss

In English, what is meant by Hot under the collar?

  • Nobody knows; it is uncertain
  • In serious difficulty
  • Angry or annoyed
  • Have no connection or effect
Correct answer(s):
  • Angry or annoyed