Each sentence given below contains an idiomatic expression. From the given options, you have to identify that word which will complete the expression.
Answers
1. I am sure he will never set the Thames on fire.
2. The police suspect that he had a hand in the plot.
3. Please do not take failure to heart.
4. I am afraid you are burning the candle at both ends.
5. As a writer, Bernard Shaw was head and shoulders above his contemporaries.
6. The foolish man made ducks and drakes of his wealth.
7. Although I have known her for a long time, she always gives me the cold shoulder.
8. He is quite fond of blowing his own trumpet.
9. A spirit of unrest is in the air.
10. I don’t think that you should accept that job. You already have too many irons in the fire.
11. I have a bone to pick with you.
12. All of his projects ended in smoke.
