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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

Which answer best defines In lieu of?

  • Be good at noticing or judging something
  • Uncertain and depending on what happens next
  • Instead of
  • Very cheerful and happy
Correct answer(s):
  • Instead of

What does the idiom In no uncertain terms mean?

  • Manage to stay alive with very little money
  • Very clearly and directly
  • Be responsible while someone else is away
  • Being discussed or doubted
  • Being planned or prepared
Correct answer(s):
  • Very clearly and directly

Choose the correct meaning of In one’s element.

  • The central or most important point
  • Avoid trouble or wrongdoing
  • Avoid attracting attention
  • Comfortable and confident doing something
Correct answer(s):
  • Comfortable and confident doing something

In English, what is meant by In one’s prime?

  • Being planned or prepared
  • At the best or strongest stage
  • Be responsible while someone else is away
  • In debt or losing money
Correct answer(s):
  • At the best or strongest stage

Select the option that best explains In principle.

  • Being discussed or doubted
  • Nobody knows; it is uncertain
  • Have no limits
  • In serious difficulty
  • In general idea, though not always in detail
Correct answer(s):
  • In general idea, though not always in detail

Which option gives the correct meaning of In question?

  • Receiving public attention
  • Being discussed or doubted
  • Go to bed
  • Dishonestly or without sincere intention
Correct answer(s):
  • Being discussed or doubted

For SSC English, identify the meaning of In the balance.

  • In serious difficulty
  • Chasing closely
  • Avoid trouble or wrongdoing
  • Uncertain and depending on what happens next
Correct answer(s):
  • Uncertain and depending on what happens next

What is the figurative meaning of In the blink of an eye?

  • Comfortable and confident doing something
  • Very quickly
  • Deliberately and without emotion
  • Act unfairly or cruelly
  • Refuse to move back or change one’s position
Correct answer(s):
  • Very quickly

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

What is the figurative meaning of Have one’s hands full?

  • Deliberately and without emotion
  • Be very busy
  • Stopped gradually or completely
  • Do something without real interest or effort
  • Make a process easier or faster
Correct answer(s):
  • Be very busy

Which meaning matches the phrase Have one’s way?

  • Relief that someone or something unwanted is gone
  • Avoid someone or something
  • Working very closely together, often secretly
  • Get what one wants
Correct answer(s):
  • Get what one wants

Choose the best interpretation of Have the last word.

  • Make a process easier or faster
  • Make the final decision or final remark
  • Be wasted or lost
  • Working very closely together, often secretly
Correct answer(s):
  • Make the final decision or final remark

What idea does Heart of the matter usually express?

  • Nobody knows; it is uncertain
  • Fixed and not changeable
  • The central or most important point
  • Make the final decision or final remark
  • At the best or strongest stage
Correct answer(s):
  • The central or most important point

Which explanation is closest to Heaven knows?

  • The central or most important point
  • Nobody knows; it is uncertain
  • Get what one wants
  • Risk everything to try to succeed
Correct answer(s):
  • Nobody knows; it is uncertain

How should we understand High and dry in a sentence?

  • Act unfairly or cruelly
  • Become lost or go in the wrong direction
  • At the best or strongest stage
  • Left helpless or without support
Correct answer(s):
  • Left helpless or without support

What does the phrase Hit below the belt suggest?

  • Act unfairly or cruelly
  • Being discussed or doubted
  • In general idea, though not always in detail
  • Deliberately and without emotion
  • Very quickly
Correct answer(s):
  • Act unfairly or cruelly