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1. The sailors nailed their colours to their mast.
2. The mother always insists on keeping the house spick and span .
3. For some people, writing verse is as duck takes to water .
4. To have an axe to grind
5. To cut the gordian knot :
6. To pull ones socks up :
7. To smell a rat
8. To plough the sands :
9. To show the white feather :
10. To cry wolf .
11. To pick holes
12. does not hold water
13. It is difficult to have a sensible discussion with her as she flies off at a tangent.
14. To save ones face :
15. My sincere advice to my maidservant fell on stony ground.
16. We had (had) better batten down the hatches . The weather is unpredictable.
17. To be above board.
18. The students found it hard to go at equal speed with the professor.
19. To let off steam , my friend started murmuring.
20. To wrangle over an asss shadow :
21. Hard-pressed :
22. To leave someone in the lurch
23. To set the people by ears :
24. a tight corner
25. To read between the lines :
26. Be in the mire :
27. To bear the palm :
28. By leaps and bounds
29. We cannot depend on him for this assignment as it needs careful handling and he is like a bull in a…
30. To hit the jackpot :