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📚 Idioms and Phrases Practice
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Q11. It is a great store, because it remains open twenty-four seven.
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Q12. When I saw him in the morning, he looked like a duck in the thunderstorm.
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Q13. She exhibited remarkable sang froid during the crisis.
C. composure
Sang froid means staying calm and cool, i.e., showing composure under pressure.
Think: "calm under stress" = composure.
Despite the chaos, she kept her sang froid and spoke slowly and clearly.
Q14. Believe me, I am all at sea.
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Q15. Believe me, I am all at sea.
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Q16. The company has been handedover to new masten, lock. stock and barrel.
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Q17. He threw cold water over the project that the secretary had prepared.
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Q18. He had to pay through the nose for his new computer.
through the nose: pay much more than a fair price.
Q19. In the new place he had to earn by the sweat of his brow.
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Q20. The idiomatic expression 'see eye to eye' means
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