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If you talking about a "tit for tat" situation, you are:

  • making someone angry
  • doing harm as done to you
  • rewarding people for the good done
  • taking advantage of someone
Correct Option: B  [ doing harm as done to you ]

Explanation: "tit for tat": is an equivalent given in return, retaliation in kind.

When one is "airing dirty linen in public", the person is:

  • discussing private affairs in public
  • hanging out clothes in the open to dry
  • standing up and fighting
  • complaining
Correct Option: A  [ discussing private affairs in public ]

Explanation: "airing dirty linen in public": discussing or arguing about unpleasant or private things in front of other people.

If someone uses the idiom "a black sheep", he/she is talking about:

  • a sheep that in black
  • an unlucky person
  • an ugly person
  • None of the above
Correct Option: D  [ None of the above ]

Explanation: "a black sheep": a person who has done something bad that brings embarrassment or shame to his or her family.

Choose the most appropriate meaning of the idiom "To cry wolf".

  • To Cry copiously
  • To raise false alarm
  • To be frightened
  • To scare people
Correct Option: B  [ To raise false alarm ]

Explanation: To cry wolf: to keep asking for help when you do not need it, with the result that people think you do not need help when you really need it.

The boys were walking ________ the road.

  • after
  • into
  • along
  • beside
Correct Option: C  [ along ]

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A group of wolves is called:

  • a pack
  • a herd
  • a school
  • a pride
Correct Option: A  [ a pack ]

Explanation: A group of wolves is called a pack.

Unless we ______ now we can't be on time.

  • will start
  • start
  • starts
  • will be starting
Correct Option: B  [ start ]

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He is in deep water and needs your help.

  • great difficulties
  • under the water
  • a sea
  • pain
Correct Option: A  [ great difficulties ]

Explanation: "deep water" meaning: in a difficult or awkward situation.

The two bothers fell out, after their father's last will was brought out by the attorney.

  • quarreled
  • separated
  • attacked each other
  • yielded
Correct Option: A  [ quarreled ]

Explanation: "fell out" meaning: differ, quarrel, spar, squabble

I cannot deal with a queer fish like him.

  • having too much critical habit
  • dishonest person
  • very mean person
  • eccentric and peculiar person
Correct Option: D  [ eccentric and peculiar person ]

Explanation: a queer fish: a person whose behaviour is strange or unusual.
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