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In the following questions, four alternatives are given for the Idiom/Phrase printed in bold in the sentence. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the Idiom/ Phrase.

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1. The students found it hard to go at equal speed with the professor.
2. To ride hell for Leather :
3. You will succeed if you follow my advice to the letter .
4. To leave someone in the lurch
5. To take people by storm :
6. A green horn :
7. My sincere advice to my maidservant fell on stony ground .
8. To mind ones Ps and Qs :
9. At one's fingertips
10. As fit as a fiddle
11. To hold somebody to ransom :
12. To be old as the hills :
13. To catch a tartar
14. To be above board .
15. Lions share
16. You need to have something up your sleeve if the present plan does not work.
17. To set the thames on fire :
18. The man changed colours when I questioned him on the allocation of funds.
19. The sailors nailed their colours to their mast.
20. She wanted to go hitch-hiking but her mother put her foot down and now she's going by bus.
21. To take umbrage :
22. To bear the palm :
23. To be at ones fingers end :
24. At daggers drawn
25. By the rule of thumb :
26. To worship the rising sun :
27. At dagger's drawn
28. For some people, writing verse is as duck takes to water .
29. He has all his ducks in a row ; he is complacent.
30. At one's wit's end