Direction.
Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/ phrase.
To take people by storm :
To put people in utter surprise
To captivate them unexpectedly
To exploit peoples agitation
To bring out something sensational attracting peoples attention
- To set one's face against
- Bed of roses
- To have an axe to grind
- To talk through ones hat :
- To take umbrage :
- To have an axe to grind.
- To drink like a fish :
- With great difficulty, he was able to carve out a niche for himself.
- To bear the palm :
- To read between the lines :
- To have brush with :
- To oil the knocker :
- Bag and baggage
- With great difficulty, he was able to carve out a niche for himself.
- The sailors nailed their colours to their mast.
- To fight to the bitter end :
- The man changed colours when I questioned him on the allocation of funds.
- By leaps and bounds
- To set the people by ears :
- To give a rap on the knuckles :
- out and out
- To be above board
- A bakers dozen :
- To take the wind out of anothers sails :
- To worship the rising sun :
- At a loss
- He made my day by telling me how important I was to him.
- To cast pearls before a swine :
- A man of straw
- All agog :