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Questions : a damp squib

(a) rainy weather

(b) a disappointing result

(c) a skirt in a laundry

(d) None of the above

The correct answers to the above question in:

Answer: (b)

a disappointing result

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Question : 1

To bite the dust

a) eat voraciously

b) have nothing to eat

c) eat roots

d) None of the above

Answer: (d)

Idiom bite the dust means :

to fail or to be defeated or destroyed. 

Question : 2

To take to one's heels

a) to walk slowly

b) to hop and jump

c) to run away

d) to march forward

Answer: (c)

Idiom take to your heels means :

to run away from somebody/something.

Question : 3

To be all at sea.

a) a family voyage

b) in the middle of the ocean

c) lost and confused 

d) a string of islands

Answer: (c)

Idiom to be all at sea means :

confused and not knowing what to do

Question : 4

in cold blood

a) slowly

b) excitedly

c) deliberately

d) angrily

Answer: (d)

angrily

Question : 5

to take someone for a ride

a) to give a ride to someone

b) to be indifferent

c) to deceive someone

d) to disclose a secret

Answer: (c)

to deceive someone

Question : 6

to move heaven and earth

a) to cause an earthquake

b)  to try everything possible

c)  to pray to all Gods

d)  to tavel in a rocket

Answer: (b)

to try everything possible

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