Let speed of downstream and speed of stream be 7x and 3x respectively. Speed of current => 3x = 9 => x = 3 km/hr Downstream speed = 7 × 3 = 21 km/h Speed of boat = 21 - 3 = 18 km/hr Upstream speed = 18 - 3 = 15 km/h Distance travelled upstream in 6 hr = 15 × 6 = 90 km
Select the most appropriate meaning of the bold idiom in the given sentence.
There was no one in the team who could bell the cat and tell th...
Select the most appropriate meaning of the given idiom.
Fifth wheel
Blue-blooded
Obviously, we could sit here and talk until we're dull in the face about how wonderfully they play the game.
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Bite your tongue
At one’s finger’s ends
A bolt from the blue
The debut disc by this Burlington act is a straight-ahead return to the kind of woman-made tuneage that was all the game five, six years ago.
...fair-weather friend
