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

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1. Bag and baggage
2. To split hours :
3. To drive home.
4. To strike ones colours :
5. The students found it hard to go at equal speed with the professor.
6. You need to have something up your sleeve if the present plan does not work.
7. To be at ones fingers end :
8. To pull strings :
9. At arm's length
10. To cry wolf.
11. Be in the mire :
12. To leave someone in the lurch
13. A green horn :
14. To pour oil in troubled water :
15. In the teeth of
16. With great difficulty, he was able to carve out a niche for himself.
17. To hit the nail right on the head
18. He is on the wrong side of seventy .
19. To wrangle over an asss shadow :
20. To take umbrage :
21. Once the case reached the court, the police washed their hands off it .
22. To pull ones socks up :
23. To give a rap on the knuckles :
24. By the rule of thumb :
25. To keeps one's temper
26. My sincere advice to my maidservant fell on stony ground.
27. To give/get the bird :
28. A bull in a china shop :
29. To take with a grain of salt :
30. Hobsons choice :