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In the following questions, four alternatives are given for the idiom / phrase and bold italicised in the sentence. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom / phrase.

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1. Where discipline is concerned I put my foot down .
2. The mother always insists on keeping the house spick and span .
3. Bed of roses
4. Adolescence is a period of halcyon days.
5. Once the case reached the court, the police washed their hands off it .
6. Swan-song :
7. To have an axe to grind .
8. out and out
9. To turn the tables :
10. The students of that group have assured their project guide that they will all work against the clock…
11. Ins and Outs
12. Once the case reached the court, the police washed their hands off it.
13. For some people, writing verse is as duck takes to water .
14. To fight to the bitter end :
15. To cry wolf .
16. To drink like a fish :
17. My sincere advice to my maidservant fell on stony ground.
18. I tried to feel his pulse on the issue, but in vain.
19. Will o the wisp :
20. To take with a grain of salt :
21. To cast pearls before a swine :
22. He is on the wrong side of seventy.
23. To take umbrage :
24. The convict claimed innocence and stood his ground in spite of the repeated accusations.
25. To oil the knocker :
26. To mind ones Ps and Qs :
27. fair and square
28. To carry the coal to newcastle :
29. To hold somebody to ransom :
30. To beg the question