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In the following questions, four alternatives are given for the idiom / phrase and bold italicised in the sentence. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom / phrase.

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2. I tried to feel his pulse on the issue, but in vain.
3. To cast pearls before a swine :
4. Where discipline is concerned I put my foot down .
5. It is difficult to have a sensible discussion with her as she flies off at a tangent.
6. To plough the sands :
7. To leave someone in the lurch
8. To be above board.
9. For some people, writing verse is as duck takes to water .
10. At a loss
11. Lions share
12. By the rule of thumb :
13. Above board
14. He has all his ducks in a row; he is complacent.
15. To cast pearls before a swine :
16. To bear the palm :
17. To cry wolf.
18. To have an axe to grind
19. To end in smoke
20. To cry wolf .
21. We must work with all our might and main, otherwise we cannot succeed.
22. He is on the wrong side of seventy .
23. To show the white feather :
24. She wanted to go hitch-hiking but her mother put her foot down and now she's going by bus.
25. All agog :
26. out and out
27. To wrangle over an asss shadow :
28. In the teeth of
29. To drive home .
30. To flog a dead horse :