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
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- With great difficulty, he was able to carve out a niche for himself.
- The new manager ruled the roost to every one.
- A fools errand :
- A critic's work is to read between the lines .
- At daggers drawn
- To beg the question
- I tried to feel his pulse on the issue, but in vain.
- To cut the gordian knot :
- To be old as the hills :
- To hit the nail right on the head
- To play second fiddle
- He is on the wrong side of seventy.
- To worship the rising sun :
- To be in abeyance :
- For this act of indifference he will be taken to task by the authority.
- Adolescence is a period of halcyon days .
- The convict claimed innocence and stood his ground in spite of the repeated accusations.
- Hard-pressed :
- To hit the jackpot :
- He made my day by telling me how important I was to him.
- A bakers dozen :
- To leave someone in the lurch
- Spick and span :
- To be above board .
- We must work with all our might and main, otherwise we cannot succeed.
- We cannot depend on him for this assignment as it needs careful handling and he is like a bull in a…
- The students found it hard to go at equal speed with the professor.
- Once the case reached the court, the police washed their hands off it.
- To give/get the bird :
- To pick holes