In the following questions, four alternatives are given for the idiom/phrase printed in bold. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/phrase as your answer.
His speech has taken the wind out of my sails.
There is no point in discussing the new project with him as he always pours cold water on any new ideas.
Regardless of what her parents said, she wanted to let her hair down that night.
I jumped out of my skin when the explosion happened.
She didn’t realize that the clever salesman was taking her for a ride.
In the following questions, a part of the sentence is printed in bold. Below are given alternativs 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).
It took her a long time to get past her failure in the medical examination.
The boy wanted to ask his father for money, but waited for a propitious occasion.
I did not agree with him; he appeared to be so bigoted for me to concur.
As soon as she noticed the workmen, she asked them what they have been doing.
He was asleep before the mother tucked him off.
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