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Kerala PSC English Grammar Book Study Materials 1 Page 752
Book's First PageIDIOMS/PHRASES l Nowadays, the salesmen take us l I was straining every nerve to l I don’t make a lot of money; it is for a ride. catch what they were saying. just enough to keep the wolf The best option is to deceive The best option is to make ut- from the door. someone. most efforts. The best option is escape star- 189. (2) to move heaven and earth : 197. (2) to flog a dead horse : to vation. to do everything you possibly can waste your effort by trying to do 205. (3) soft option : a choice which in order to achieve something something that is no longer pos- is thought to be easier because l I would move heaven and earth sible it involves less effort, difficulty, to get an apartment here. l He was warned again and again, etc. The best option is to try every- but now I think there is no use l The instructor took the soft op- thing possible. flogging a dead horse. tion and gave the boy a passing The best option is to attempt grade. 190. (4) to smell a rat : to suspect to do the impossible. The best option is easy and agree- that something is wrong about a 198. (2) to show a clean pair of heels : able option. situation to escape by superior speed; to 206. (2) a little gush of gratitude : a l I don’t think this was an acci- outrun. feeling of thankfulness dent. I smell a rat. l Sam showed them all a clean pair l I felt a little gush of gratitude The best option is to be suspi- of heels as he raced for the fin- when I met her at the airport. cious. ishing line. The best option is friendly feel- 191. (3) a bolt from the blue : an The best option is to escape. ing. event or a piece of news which 199. (3) to die in harness : to die 207. (2) to lose ground : to lose an is sudden and unexpected; a while in service (job/work) advantage for yoursel; to become complete surprise l My friend, Rashi, died in har- less popular l She seemed to be very involved ness. l Good restaurants are losing in her job, so her resignation The best option is to die while ground to less expensive, more came as a bolt from the blue. in service. informal places that have opened The best option is an unexpect- 200. (3) to feather one’s nest : to all around the city. ed event. make oneself rich, especially in The best option is to become less 192. (3) cold comfort : the fact that a way that is wrong and dishon- popular something that would normally est 208. (4) to fall back on : to go to be good does not make you hap- l Ravish feathered hi s nest somebody for support ; to have py because the whole situation through his connection with big something to use when you are is bad business houses. in difficulty l It was cold comfort to the stu- The best option is to profit in a l I fall back on old friends in time dent that others had failed as he dishonest way. of need. had done. 201. (2) a bolt from the blue : a com- The best option is to seek sup- The best option is slight satis- plete surprise port out of necessity. faction. l She seemed to be very involved 209. (1) to make one’s blood boil : 193. (2) to be all at sea : confused in her job, so her resignation to make somebody extremely an- and not knowing what to do came as a bolt from the blue. gry l I’m all at sea with these new The best option is unexpected. l Whenever my son criticizes his rules and regulations. 202. (3) sailing in the same boat : to father, it makes my blood boil. The best option is lost and con- be in the same difficult situation The best option is to make some- fused. l Everyone’s got too much work; body furious. we’re all sailing in the same boat. 210. (4) to speak one’s mind : to say 194. (2) to take to one’s heels : to run away from somebody/some- The best option is being in the exactly what one thinks, in a thing same difficult situation. very direct way l As soon as the thief saw the po- 203. (1) gift of the gab : the ability to l One should speak out one’s speak easily and to persuade mind rather than agree with ev- lice, he took to his heels. other people with your words erything that is said. The best option is to run away. l My brother really has the gift of The best option is to express 195. (4) to bite the dust : to fail; to gab. He can convince anyone of one’s thoughts. be defeated or destroyed; to die anything. 211. (2) to make a mountain of a l The soldier was too young to bite The best option is ability to molehill : to make an unimpor- the dust. (to die) speak well. tant matter seem important None of the above 204. (2) to keep the wolf from the l You are making a mountain of 196. (1) to strain every nerve : to try door : to have enough money to a molehill. You wrote one bad as hard as you can to do some- avoid going hungry; to stop essay; it doesn’t mean you’re go- thing somebody feeling hungry ing to fail. SEE–759