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
- Spick and span :
- To have brush with :
- For some people, writing verse is as duck takes to water .
- fair and square
- Where discipline is concerned I put my foot down .
- We had (had) better batten down the hatches . The weather is unpredictable.
- Be in the mire :
- To be in abeyance :
- To play fast and loose :
- A bull in a china shop :
- A tall order :
- The man changed colours when I questioned him on the allocation of funds.
- Will o the wisp :
- Ins and Outs
- To worship the rising sun :
- To cool ones heels :
- To flog a dead horse :
- All agog :
- To set the thames on fire :
- To take a leaf out of somebodys book :
- By the rule of thumb :
- I tried to feel his pulse on the issue, but in vain.
- At arm's length
- All and sundry :
- To oil the knocker :
- To bring ones eggs to a bad market :
- To break the ice :
- To have an axe to grind.
- To beg the question
- You need to have something up your sleeve if the present plan does not work.