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(Q) To give/get the bird

A) To get the awaited
B) To have good luck
C) To send away
D) To get the impossible

View Answer C) To send away
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(Q) To bring one's eggs to bad market

A) To face a humiliating situation
B) To bring one's commodities to a market where there is no demand for them
C) To show one's talents before audience which is incapable of appreciating them
D) To fail in one's plans because one goes to the wrong people for help

View Answer D) To fail in one's plans because one goes to the wrong people for help
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(Q) To cast pearls before a swine

A) To spend recklessly
B) To spend a lot of money on the unkeep of domestic hogs
C) To waste money over trifles
D) To offer to a person a thing which he cannot appreciate

View Answer D) To offer to a person a thing which he cannot appreciate
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(Q) To take the bull by the horns

A) To punish a person severely for is arrogance
B) To grapple courageously with a difficulty that lies in our way
C) To handle it by fierce attack
D) To bypass the legal process and take action according to one's own whims

View Answer B) To grapple courageously with a difficulty that lies in our way
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(Q) Hobson's choice

A) Feeling of insecurity
B) Accept or leavet the offer
C) Feeling of strength
D) Excellent choice

View Answer B) Accept or leavet the offer
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(Q) To take with a grain of salt

A) To take with some reservation
B) To take with total disbelief
C) To take whole heartedly
D) To take seriously

View Answer A) To take with some reservation
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(Q) To wrangle over an ass's shadow

A) To act in a foolish way
B) To quarrel over trifles
C) To waste time on petty things
D) To do something funny

View Answer B) To quarrel over trifles
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