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1. To be above board
2. With great difficulty, he was able to carve out a niche for himself.
3. I tried to feel his pulse on the issue, but in vain.
4. Hobsons choice :
5. He has all his ducks in a row; he is complacent.
6. To beg the question
7. a tight corner
8. Bed of roses
9. To set the people by ears :
10. To strike ones colours :
11. Swan-song :
12. Where discipline is concerned I put my foot down .
13. At the spur of the moment
14. To talk through ones hat :
15. A bull in a china shop :
16. Once the case reached the court, the police washed their hands off it .
17. To take umbrage :
18. A critic's work is to read between the lines .
19. To take the wind out of anothers sails :
20. To make clean breast of
21. To give a false colouring :
22. To take people by storm :
23. Dog in the manger :
24. To take the bull by the horns :
25. At daggers drawn
26. To have brush with :
27. To have an axe to grind
28. To keep the ball rolling :
29. To have an axe to grind .
30. To put one's hand to plough