Direction.
Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/ phrase.
To take the wind out of anothers sails :
To manouevre ot mislead another on the high seas
To cause harm to another
To defeat the motives of another
To anticipate another and to gain advantage over him
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- To drive home.
- All in all
- a white elephant
- Harp on :
- The mother always insists on keeping the house spick and span .
- To leave someone in the lurch
- To have an axe to grind
- To drive home .
- To pay off old scores :
- The new manager ruled the roost to every one.
- To pour oil in troubled water :
- In the teeth of
- A green horn :
- To be above board
- Dog in the manger :
- To set the people by ears :
- To turn over a new leaf :
- Will o the wisp :
- To give a rap on the knuckles :
- To cry wolf.
- The students found it hard to go at equal speed with the professor.
- To set the thames on fire :
- a tight corner
- You will succeed if you follow my advice to the letter .
- fair and square
- The convict claimed innocence and stood his ground in spite of the repeated accusations.
- She wanted to go hitch-hiking but her mother put her foot down and now she's going by bus.
- At one's fingertips
- does not hold water
- To bring ones eggs to a bad market :