Please be as brief as you can, I have other fish to fry.

• to cook the food
• to take rest
• some important work to attend to
• to attend the friends
Correct Option: C  [ some important work to attend to ]

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A good teacher should have the gift of the gab.

• a good personality
• a talent for acting
• a talent for speaking
• an interest in discipline
Correct Option: C  [ a talent for speaking ]

Remark:

John keeps drawing on fancy about the banking job in government sector.

• Use imagination
• Do the things beautifully
• Make clear conclusion about anything or anyone
• Likes government jobs
Correct Option: A  [ Use imagination ]

Remark:

The policy has been declared to be null and void.

• Invalid
• Empty
• Valid
• Impossible
Correct Option: A  [ Invalid ]

Remark:

The idiomatic expression 'pull yourself together'.

• Drag oneself
• help one
• get angry
• calm down by oneself
Correct Option: D  [ calm down by oneself ]

Remark:

The detective went abroad in search of culprit but his journey proved to be a wild goose chase.

• expensive
• full of difficulties
• unprofitable adventure
• ill advised
Correct Option: C  [ unprofitable adventure ]

Remark:

It was such a strange affair that I could make head or tail of it.

• face it
• tolerate it
• remember it
• understand it
Correct Option: D  [ understand it ]

Remark:

He puts us in a He puts us in a real fix when he did not turn up to pick us up.

• feel awkward
• bad mood
• made us feel bad
• difficult situation
Correct Option: D  [ difficult situation ]

Remark:

To drink like a fish:

• To drink little
• To drink alone
• To drink in company of others
• To be a drunkard
Correct Option: D  [ To be a drunkard ]

Remark:

Fly off the Handle

• reprimand someone severely
• lose one's temper suddenly
• deliver a sermon
• break down of bike
Correct Option: B  [ lose one's temper suddenly ]

Remark: