1.To rub shoulders
a) To follow someone
b) to create difficulty
c) To come into close contact
d) To speak eagerly about something you support

2.Other fish to fry
a) More important business to attend
b) Back to something that you don’t want to do
c) One who gossips more or tells secret
d) Free from all obligations

3.An old bird is not to be caught with chaff
a) Experienced people are not easily fooled or deceived
b) An unpleasant fact that must be accepted
c) One who gossips more or tells secret
d) Totally unaware

4.Read between the lines
a) In small amounts at a time
b) Understand the hidden meaning
c) To keep quite
d) One who gossips more or tells secret

5.A martinet
a) An argument or law not followed by anyone
b) Someone in a group of people but not liked by them
c) A very strict disciplinarian
d) A strange person

6.Make a clean breast of it
a) Confess especially when a person has done a wrong thing
b) To be cheated by someone you trust
c) Something that you achieve and proud of
d) To allow someone to live or die naturally

7.Come off with flying colours
a) Be highly successful
b) To change plans
c) Active and energetic
d) Having very little knowledge about something

8.Pyrrhic victory
a) Back to something that you don’t want to do
b) To make a wrong assumption
c) free from all obligations
d) A victory that is as costly as defeat

9.An Amazon
a) An unpleasant fact that must be accepted
b) Worst member
c) worry about the future in advance
d) A warlike masculine woman

10. To be cock sure
a) To be completely suitable for someone
b) To follow someone
c) To be absolutely certain
d) To prepare for trouble