Some proverbs/idioms are given below together with their meanings. Choose the correct meaning of proverb/idiom.
To play ducks and drakes
Answer: D
It means to squander money.
To play ducks and drakes with something is to use it recklessly, from the game of skimming flat stones across water.
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Play truant
Answer: C
It means to be absent from duty without permission.
To play truant is to stay away from school or work without leave.
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Pay lip service
Answer: B
It means to pretend regard.
To pay lip service is to profess support in words while withholding it in action - the service goes no further than the lips.
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Pyrrhic victory
Answer: D
It means a victory at too high a cost.
Named after Pyrrhus of Epirus, who beat the Romans in 279 BCE and remarked that another such victory would ruin him.
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All and sundry
Answer: A
It means everybody without distinction.
All and sundry means everyone, taken together and separately - sundry meaning individual.
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At arm's length
Answer: B
It means at a distance.
To keep someone at arm's length is to avoid becoming familiar with them.
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At daggers drawn
Answer: C
It means at enmity.
To be at daggers drawn is to be openly hostile, the weapons already out of their sheaths.
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Bag and baggage
Answer: D
It means with all one's belongings.
Bag and baggage originally meant an army's whole property, carried off when it withdrew with honour; it now means simply everything one owns.
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A bed of roses
Answer: D
It means full of joys.
A bed of roses is a life of ease and comfort. The phrase is usually met in the negative - life is not a bed of roses.
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By leaps and bounds
Answer: A
It means very fast.
By leaps and bounds means with very rapid progress, both words meaning a jump.
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