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SET 5
Choose the correct meaning for each idiom in bold.

1) Carmen was able to keep the audiences amused with her stories. She surely has the gift of
the gab.

A) The effort to be good
B) The ability to speak well

C) The will to keep a promise
D) The ability to make good decision

2) Munira stopped talking to Karim because he did not lend her his notebook. I think she is
making a mountain out of a molehill.

A) To take things easy

B) To ignore the bad things on the past
C) To give great importance to small things

D) To remember happy moments with loved ones

3. We have not spoken to each other since the time we had a fight a few months back. We
should let bygones be bygones and become friends again.

A) To take revenge

B) To ignore people we love
C) To befriend with someone

D) To ignore the bad things in the past

4. There is a cricket match tomorrow. Syafiq will make sure he gets the day off from office
by hook or by crook.

A) Suffer for something that one has done

B) Hope for a negative outcome
C) Do not bother at all

D) No matter what

5. Priyanka was born with a silver spoon in her mouth. Her father gave her an expensive

car on her eighteenth birthday.

A) To be born in a very happy family
B) To be born in a very rich family

C) To be born in a poor family
D) To live in hardship

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