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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. All agog :
2. Dog in the manger :
3. The students found it hard to go at equal speed with the professor.
4. To smell a rat
5. To take a leaf out of somebodys book :
6. Where discipline is concerned I put my foot down .
7. As fit as a fiddle
8. Apple Pie Order
9. To plough the sands :
10. To take the bull by the horns :
11. He is on the wrong side of seventy .
12. To be at ones fingers end :
13. green thumb
14. To have brush with :
15. To split hours :
16. The convict claimed innocence and stood his ground in spite of the repeated accusations.
17. Hobsons choice :
18. The sailors nailed their colours to their mast.
19. Hard-pressed :
20. To pour oil in troubled water :
21. Despite his initial arrogance he had to eat humble pie .
22. fair and square
23. The students of that group have assured their project guide that they will all work against the clock…
24. To take the wind out of anothers sails :
25. To speak daggers :
26. He made away with ten thousand rupees in the course of three months.
27. To catch a tartar
28. A fools errand :
29. To ride hell for Leather :
30. At daggers drawn