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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. By leaps and bounds
2. To save ones face :
3. To set the thames on fire :
4. You will succeed if you follow my advice to the letter .
5. To cry wolf .
6. To be above board .
7. Adolescence is a period of halcyon days.
8. To be above board.
9. He is on the wrong side of seventy .
10. To have brush with :
11. The students found it hard to go at equal speed with the professor.
12. To have ones heart in ones boots :
13. To pick holes
14. A black sheep
15. To hold somebody to ransom :
16. You need to have something up your sleeve if the present plan does not work.
17. a white elephant
18. Spick and span :
19. All agog :
20. With great difficulty, he was able to carve out a niche for himself.
21. To cry wolf
22. All in all
23. I tried to feel his pulse on the issue, but in vain.
24. At one's wit's end
25. As fit as a fiddle
26. To take a leaf out of somebodys book :
27. To have an axe to grind .
28. Be in the mire :
29. To be at ones fingers end :
30. To be in abeyance :

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