Direction.

Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/ phrase.

1. The students of that group have assured their project guide that they will all work against the clock…
2. To bear the palm :
3. To plough the sands :
4. To split hours :
5. To snap ones fingers :
6. To turn over a new leaf :
7. To let off steam , my friend started murmuring.
8. Spick and span :
9. To fight to the bitter end :
10. To set one's face against
11. The sailors nailed their colours to their mast.
12. a white elephant
13. To take the bull by the horns :
14. The sailors nailed their colours to their mast.
15. He is on the wrong side of seventy .
16. To cool ones heels :
17. To be above board
18. To smell a rat
19. Bag and baggage
20. For some people, writing verse is as duck takes to water .
21. All and Sundry
22. To have an axe to grind.
23. Lions share
24. To catch a tartar
25. I tried to feel his pulse on the issue, but in vain.
26. All in all
27. An apple of discord
28. A critic's work is to read between the lines .
29. At the spur of the moment
30. To play second fiddle