1. Pull your socks up:

A. To get ready
B. To finish
C. To start
D. To improve

2. To have an axe to grind _?

A. A private end to serve
B. To fail to arouse interest
C. To have no result
D. To work for both sides

3. “Cap it all” means:__?

A. To cover everything
B. To seize everything
C. To finish
D. To occur

4. To leave someone in the lurch _?

A. To come to compromise with someone
B. Constant source of annoyance to someone
C. To put someone at ease
D. To desert someone in his difficulties

5. “Never-never land” means:_?

A. An ideal pace
B. Dream land
C. A worthless place
D. A useless situation

6. To cry wolf __?

A. To listen eagerly
B. To give false alarm
C. To turn pale
D. To keep off starvation

7. It was he who “put a spoke in my wheel”.

A. tried to cause an accident
B. helped in the execution of the plan
C. thwarted in the execution of the plan
D. destroyed the plan

8. To smell a rat _?

A. To see signs of plague epidemic
B. To get bad small of a bad dead rat
C. To suspect foul dealings
D. To be in a bad mood

9. To hit the nail right on the head _?

A. To say something that is exactly right or completely true
B. To destroy one’s reputation
C. To announce one’s fixed views
D. To teach someone a lesson

10. To pick holes _?

A. To find some reason to quarrel
B. To destroy something
C. To criticize someone
D. To cut some part of an item