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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

In English, what is meant by Have a field day?

  • Try any possible solution when hope is low
  • Enjoy a chance to do something freely or successfully
  • Risk everything to try to succeed
  • Be wasted or lost
Correct answer(s):
  • Enjoy a chance to do something freely or successfully

Select the option that best explains In a bind.

  • In a difficult situation
  • Uncertain and depending on what happens next
  • Try any possible solution when hope is low
  • Make the final decision or final remark
  • In serious difficulty
Correct answer(s):
  • In a difficult situation

Select the option that best explains Have a say.

  • Take a risk by supporting or saying something
  • Without considering surrounding facts or context
  • Become too excited and lose control
  • Dishonestly or without sincere intention
  • Have the right or chance to express an opinion
Correct answer(s):
  • Have the right or chance to express an opinion

Which option gives the correct meaning of In a dilemma?

  • Uncertain and depending on what happens next
  • Despite strong opposition or difficulty
  • Being discussed or doubted
  • Unable to choose between two difficult options
Correct answer(s):
  • Unable to choose between two difficult options

Which option gives the correct meaning of Have an eye for?

  • Be good at noticing or judging something
  • Get what one wants
  • Make a process easier or faster
  • Relief that someone or something unwanted is gone
Correct answer(s):
  • Be good at noticing or judging something

For SSC English, identify the meaning of In a flash.

  • Very quickly
  • In serious difficulty
  • Be responsible while someone else is away
  • Deliberately and without emotion
Correct answer(s):
  • Very quickly

For SSC English, identify the meaning of Have no bearing on.

  • Hear about something secret or private
  • Relief that someone or something unwanted is gone
  • Have no connection or effect
  • Working very closely together, often secretly
Correct answer(s):
  • Have no connection or effect

What is the figurative meaning of In a fog?

  • Be very busy
  • Being discussed or doubted
  • Following as a result of something
  • Confused and unable to think clearly
  • Manage to stay alive with very little money
Correct answer(s):
  • Confused and unable to think clearly

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

Choose the best interpretation of Get away with.

  • Happening very quickly and energetically
  • Escape punishment or avoid the consequences
  • Have the right or chance to express an opinion
  • Do something completely and thoroughly
Correct answer(s):
  • Escape punishment or avoid the consequences

What idea does Grasp at straws usually express?

  • From one place or person to another without success
  • Do something without real interest or effort
  • Try any possible solution when hope is low
  • Refuse to move back or change one’s position
  • Relief that someone or something unwanted is gone
Correct answer(s):
  • Try any possible solution when hope is low

What idea does Get carried away usually express?

  • Obtain a first strong position
  • Have the right or chance to express an opinion
  • Become too excited and lose control
  • A subject or situation one knows well
  • Whether the result is good or bad
Correct answer(s):
  • Become too excited and lose control

Which explanation is closest to Grease the wheels?

  • Be good at noticing or judging something
  • Make the final decision or final remark
  • Have no connection or effect
  • Make a process easier or faster
Correct answer(s):
  • Make a process easier or faster

Which explanation is closest to Get down to brass tacks?

  • Begin discussing the most important practical details
  • Stopped gradually or completely
  • Hear about something secret or private
  • Start behaving badly or losing control
Correct answer(s):
  • Begin discussing the most important practical details