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📚 Idioms and Phrases Practice
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Q21. Fly off the Handle
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Q22. The idiomatic expression "pull yourself together".
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Q23. 'See eye to eye' means:
The correct answer is: agree with someone.
See eye to eye means to think the same as someone else; they agree.
Think of two people staring at the same picture and saying, “Yes, we see it the same.”
They finally see eye to eye on the project and start working together.
Q24. He is a dark horse.
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Q25. 'At daggers drawn' means:
B. on bad terms with
The phrase shows two people ready to fight or argue, meaning they are not friendly and are on bad terms.
Imagine swords or daggers at each other to remember “on bad terms.”
Since the breakup, they have been daggers drawn in meetings.
Q26. Everything was at sixes and sevens.
Disordered.
It means things are in a state of confusion or not arranged properly.
Think: a mess or chaos equals sixes and sevens.
Ever since the move, my desk has been at sixes and sevens.
Q27. A bolt from the blue
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Q28. To be all at sea.
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Q29. Cold comfort
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Q30. To bite the dust
to fail
The idiom “to bite the dust” means to die or fail, often suddenly.
Picture someone biting dust after a big failure.
Their project bit the dust when funding stopped.