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Which meaning matches the phrase Familiar ground?

  • Disappear or change very slowly
  • A subject or situation one knows well
  • Mutual compromise
  • Honestly and according to the rules
Correct answer(s):
  • A subject or situation one knows well

Choose the best interpretation of Far from it.

  • Have effects on both sides
  • Without money, work, or hope
  • Control people by making them disagree with each other
  • Not at all; the opposite is true
Correct answer(s):
  • Not at all; the opposite is true

What idea does Fast and furious usually express?

  • An unfairly high price
  • Refuse to change one’s mind
  • Happening very quickly and energetically
  • Bring something to an end
  • Very healthy and strong
Correct answer(s):
  • Happening very quickly and energetically

Which explanation is closest to Few and far between?

  • An unfairly high price
  • Hear about something secret or private
  • Rare and not happening often
  • Be very helpful or effective
Correct answer(s):
  • Rare and not happening often

How should we understand First and foremost in a sentence?

  • Most importantly
  • A subject or situation one knows well
  • Mutual compromise
  • Control people by making them disagree with each other
Correct answer(s):
  • Most importantly

What does the phrase Fish in troubled waters suggest?

  • Control people by making them disagree with each other
  • Avoid someone or something
  • Whether the result is good or bad
  • Bravery gained from drinking alcohol
  • Try to gain advantage from a confused situation
Correct answer(s):
  • Try to gain advantage from a confused situation

What does the phrase Draw the curtain on suggest?

  • Bring something to an end
  • Completely or in every way
  • A very enthusiastic and hardworking person
  • An unfairly high price
  • Change financial records dishonestly
Correct answer(s):
  • Bring something to an end

Pick the correct meaning of the expression Fit as a fiddle.

  • Be ignored
  • Very healthy and strong
  • Start behaving badly or losing control
  • Mutual compromise
Correct answer(s):
  • Very healthy and strong

Pick the correct meaning of the expression Drive a hard bargain.

  • Complain about something that cannot be changed
  • In all practical ways
  • Negotiate strongly to get a good deal
  • An unfairly high price
Correct answer(s):
  • Negotiate strongly to get a good deal

Which answer best defines Follow suit?

  • Start behaving badly or losing control
  • Take a risk by supporting or saying something
  • Do the same thing as someone else
  • Become too excited and lose control
Correct answer(s):
  • Do the same thing as someone else

Which answer best defines Drop in the bucket?

  • Be ignored
  • A very small amount compared with what is needed
  • Complain about something that cannot be changed
  • The hottest or most tiring days of a period
Correct answer(s):
  • A very small amount compared with what is needed

What does the idiom For a rainy day mean?

  • Mutual compromise
  • For a future time of need
  • A very enthusiastic and hardworking person
  • Begin discussing the most important practical details
  • Do the same thing as someone else
Correct answer(s):
  • For a future time of need

What does the idiom Dutch courage mean?

  • The hottest or most tiring days of a period
  • Do the same thing as someone else
  • Shared opinions or interests
  • Bravery gained from drinking alcohol
  • Already decided and not likely to change
Correct answer(s):
  • Bravery gained from drinking alcohol

Choose the correct meaning of For all intents and purposes.

  • Mutual compromise
  • Escape punishment or avoid the consequences
  • Without money, work, or hope
  • In all practical ways
Correct answer(s):
  • In all practical ways

Choose the correct meaning of Eager beaver.

  • A very enthusiastic and hardworking person
  • Begin discussing the most important practical details
  • Mostly; generally
  • Negotiate strongly to get a good deal
Correct answer(s):
  • A very enthusiastic and hardworking person

In English, what is meant by For better or worse?

  • Whether the result is good or bad
  • Trust someone when the truth is uncertain
  • Honestly and according to the rules
  • Very healthy and strong
Correct answer(s):
  • Whether the result is good or bad

In English, what is meant by Eat one’s words?

  • Without money, work, or hope
  • Already decided and not likely to change
  • Admit that what one said was wrong
  • Happening very quickly and energetically
Correct answer(s):
  • Admit that what one said was wrong

Select the option that best explains For the most part.

  • Bring something to an end
  • Avoid someone or something
  • Risk everything to try to succeed
  • Very jealous
  • Mostly; generally
Correct answer(s):
  • Mostly; generally

Select the option that best explains Every inch.

  • Completely or in every way
  • Produce very good results
  • Very healthy and strong
  • Rare and not happening often
  • Try to gain advantage from a confused situation
Correct answer(s):
  • Completely or in every way

Which option gives the correct meaning of From hand to mouth?

  • With just enough money or food to survive
  • Fail to remember or find something
  • Avoid someone or something
  • From one place or person to another without success
Correct answer(s):
  • With just enough money or food to survive