Direction.
Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/ phrase.
To catch a tartar
To trap wanted criminal with great difficulty
To catch a dangerous person
To meet with disaster
To deal with a person who is more than one's match
- To pay off old scores :
- fair and square
- My sincere advice to my maidservant fell on stony ground.
- To leave someone in the lurch
- Spick and span :
- To keep the ball rolling :
- To drive home .
- You need to have something up your sleeve if the present plan does not work.
- The new manager ruled the roost to every one.
- To catch a tartar
- Once the case reached the court, the police washed their hands off it.
- To turn over a new leaf :
- At one's wit's end
- An apple of discord
- To drink like a fish :
- A bakers dozen :
- To be above board.
- To speak daggers :
- By the rule of thumb :
- To pick holes
- To be in abeyance :
- A green horn :
- To cast pearls before a swine :
- Despite his initial arrogance he had to eat humble pie .
- Where discipline is concerned I put my foot down .
- At one's fingertips
- To give chapter and verse for a thing :
- She wanted to go hitch-hiking but her mother put her foot down and now she's going by bus.
- Hard-pressed :
- To put one's hand to plough