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1. To have an axe to grind.
2. He is on the wrong side of seventy.
3. To drive home.
4. Swan-song :
5. Once the case reached the court, the police washed their hands off it .
6. To give a false colouring :
7. We cannot depend on him for this assignment as it needs careful handling and he is like a bull in a…
8. For this act of indifference he will be taken to task by the authority.
9. To speak daggers :
10. A fools errand :
11. To take the bull by the horns :
12. She wanted to go hitch-hiking but her mother put her foot down and now she's going by bus.
13. To let off steam , my friend started murmuring.
14. At arm's length
15. To cast pearls before a swine :
16. To wrangle over an asss shadow :
17. To have ones heart in ones boots :
18. To pull strings :
19. The new manager ruled the roost to every one.
20. At dagger's drawn
21. To keeps one's temper
22. To take with a grain of salt :
23. To bring ones eggs to a bad market :
24. To pull ones socks up :
25. To put one's hand to plough
26. Hard-pressed :
27. Above board
28. To pay off old scores :
29. To strike ones colours :
30. We must work with all our might and main, otherwise we cannot succeed.