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Questions : To bite the dust

(a) eat voraciously

(b) have nothing to eat

(c) eat roots

(d) None of the above

The correct answers to the above question in:

Answer: (d)

Idiom bite the dust means :

to fail or to be defeated or destroyed. 

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Question : 1

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 : 2

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 : 3

Cold comfort

a) foolish proposal

b) slight satisfaction

c) deception

d) absurdity

Answer: (b)

Cold Comfort (Noun) means :

the fact that something that would normally be good does not make you happy because the whole situation is bad.

Question : 4

a damp squib

a) rainy weather

b) a disappointing result

c) a skirt in a laundry

d) None of the above

Answer: (b)

a disappointing result

Question : 5

in cold blood

a) slowly

b) excitedly

c) deliberately

d) angrily

Answer: (d)

angrily

Question : 6

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

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