Directions : In the following questions', four alternatives are given for the idiom/phrase and bold italicised in the sentence. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/phrase as your answer. -
Once the case reached the court, the police washed their hands off it.
She wanted to go hitch-hiking but her mother put her foot down and now she's 'going by bus.
My sincere advice to my maid-servant fell on stony ground.
Directions : In the following questions, a part of the sentence is printed in bold. Below are given alternatives to the bold part at a, b and c which may improve the sentence. Choose the correct alternative. In case no improvement is needed your answer is d.
You shall have attended if the court had instructed you to do so.
The relics of Greece over which such a great deal of evidence has been collected should be preserved.
When the beverage was ready, they drank possibly as much as they could.
A citizen is expected to give allegiance to his country of origin.
We were with daggers drawn despite attempts to understand each other;
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