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Question #581

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Select the most appropriate meaning of the idiom: 'Come to a head'.

A. To calm down

B. To reach a crisis point

C. To boil over

D. To cause a headache

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Correct Answer: Option B

Explanation:
It means a situation reaches a critical stage.

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Question #582

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Select the most appropriate meaning of the idiom: 'Come to blows'.

A. To hug

B. To negotiate

C. To argue politely

D. To start a physical fight

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Correct Answer: Option D

Explanation:
It means to begin fighting physically.

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Question #583

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Select the most appropriate meaning of the idiom: 'Come to grief'.

A. To mourn

B. To fail or meet with disaster

C. To succeed

D. To cry

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Correct Answer: Option B

Explanation:
It means to end badly.

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Question #584

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Select the most appropriate meaning of the idiom: 'Come to terms with'.

A. To accept a difficult situation

B. To reject

C. To sign a contract

D. To disagree

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Correct Answer: Option A

Explanation:
It means to learn to live with something unpleasant.

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Question #585

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Select the most appropriate meaning of the idiom: 'Come what may'.

A. A planned outcome

B. A possible event

C. Only good things

D. No matter what happens

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Correct Answer: Option D

Explanation:
It means regardless of what difficulties arise.

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Question #586

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Select the most appropriate meaning of the idiom: 'Common ground'.

A. Shared beliefs or interests

B. Shared land

C. An argument

D. A dispute

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Correct Answer: Option A

Explanation:
It means a basis of agreement between people.

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Question #587

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Select the most appropriate meaning of the idiom: 'Cook the books'.

A. To falsify financial records

B. To write a cookbook

C. To prepare a meal

D. To read a book

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Correct Answer: Option A

Explanation:
It means to manipulate accounts dishonestly.

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Question #588

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Select the most appropriate meaning of the idiom: 'Cool one's heels'.

A. To wait for a long time

B. To put ice on heels

C. To relax comfortably

D. To run fast

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Correct Answer: Option A

Explanation:
It means to be kept waiting.

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Question #589

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Select the most appropriate meaning of the idiom: 'Corner the market'.

A. To open a shop

B. To lose money

C. To go to a market corner

D. To gain control over a particular business

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Correct Answer: Option D

Explanation:
It means to dominate the supply of a product.

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Question #590

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Select the most appropriate meaning of the idiom: 'Cover one's tracks'.

A. To make footprints

B. To follow a path

C. To walk on tracks

D. To hide evidence of one's actions

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Correct Answer: Option D

Explanation:
It means to conceal what one has done.

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Question #591

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Select the most appropriate meaning of the idiom: 'Crack of dawn'.

A. Midday

B. A broken dawn

C. Late at night

D. Very early morning

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Correct Answer: Option D

Explanation:
It means the earliest light of the day.

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Question #592

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Select the most appropriate meaning of the idiom: 'Cramp one's style'.

A. To dance well

B. To have a muscle cramp

C. To restrict someone's freedom or creativity

D. To be fashionable

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Correct Answer: Option C

Explanation:
It means to prevent someone from acting naturally.

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Question #593

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Select the most appropriate meaning of the idiom: 'Cross to bear'.

A. A cross-shaped object

B. A heavy burden or responsibility

C. A light load

D. A religious symbol

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Correct Answer: Option B

Explanation:
It means a painful difficulty one must endure.

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Question #594

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Select the most appropriate meaning of the idiom: 'Cut a long story short'.

A. To write a book

B. To exaggerate

C. To tell a long tale

D. To summarize briefly

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Correct Answer: Option D

Explanation:
It means to give only the main points.

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Question #595

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Select the most appropriate meaning of the idiom: 'Cut and run'.

A. To flee hastily from a difficult situation

B. To stay and fight

C. To cut and then run

D. To walk slowly

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Correct Answer: Option A

Explanation:
It means to escape quickly to avoid trouble.

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Question #596

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Select the most appropriate meaning of the idiom: 'Cut it fine'.

A. To be precise exactly

B. To cut finely

C. To be generous

D. To leave very little margin of time or space

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Correct Answer: Option D

Explanation:
It means to risk being late by leaving barely enough time.

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Question #597

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Select the most appropriate meaning of the idiom: 'Cut off one's nose to spite one's face'.

A. To get plastic surgery

B. To help someone

C. To hurt oneself while trying to hurt another

D. To harm oneself to get revenge

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Correct Answer: Option C

Explanation:
It means to act out of spite in a way that damages one's own interests.

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Question #598

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Select the most appropriate meaning of the idiom: 'Dance to someone's tune'.

A. To lead a group

B. To do exactly what someone else demands

C. To dance with someone

D. To play music

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Correct Answer: Option B

Explanation:
It means to comply with another's wishes completely.

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Question #599

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Select the most appropriate meaning of the idiom: 'Day in, day out'.

A. Occasionally

B. One day only

C. At night

D. Continuously or every day without change

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Correct Answer: Option D

Explanation:
It means happening routinely, every day.

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Question #600

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Select the most appropriate meaning of the idiom: 'Dead as a doornail'.

A. A doornail

B. Alive

C. Completely dead or lifeless

D. Partially dead

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Correct Answer: Option C

Explanation:
It means utterly dead, with no chance of revival.

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