Practice Idioms and Phrases Questions and Answers

• In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/phrase.  face the music...
• lame duck
• keep a civil tongue
• zero hour
• Burglars broke into our neighbour’s house last night.
• a repeated passage in music
• enlarge upon or add detail to something
• make full use of and derive benefit from a resource
• Ask for or request earnestly
• Widely known and esteemed
• They’re scattered P- and are not the Q- traditional Christmas lights R- throughout the old town 
• Break a leg
• Miss the boat
• Pull yourself together
• Under the weather
• A perfect storm
• Harass, as with questions or requests
• to be perplexed or confounded
• A formal expression of disapproval
• Usual practices associated with a particular society, place, or set of circumstances.
• Don’t give her the cold __________.
• Break a leg
• Miss the boat
• Pull yourself together
• Under the weather
• Accept a belief, theory, or change willingly and enthusiastically
• Persuade an unwilling person to do something by using force or threats.
• The last straw
• Get your act together
• lame duck
• Add insult to injury
• A Chip On Your Shoulder
• Hang in there
• Fair-weather friend
• A Slap on the Wrist
• An Axe to Grind
• Modify (something) to suit a particular individual or task.
• To shorten a word/phrase/text
• Ask for or request earnestly
• Widely known and esteemed