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Q161. Choose the correct meaning of proverb/idiom:
**A Wet blanket**
- a person who spoils a jolly atmosphere
- a warm and affable person
- a person who does not practice what he preaches
- a person who tries to willfully harm others
- a person who is observed with suspicion or enemity because of some past misdeed or scandal
Solution : a person who spoils a jolly atmosphere
Q162. Choose the correct meaning of proverb/idiom:
**Too big for one's boots**
- attempting things which one is not capable of doing
- too conceited
- so big that one can hardly believe it
- a situation which is extremely difficult to handle
- something which is beyond comprehension
Solution : too conceited
Q163. Choose the correct meaning of proverb/idiom:
**A thin time**
- an uncertain or risky situation
- an unconvincing excuse
- a period of satisfaction
- a period of unpleasantness, poor health, lack of money etc.
- the beginning of something that will develop into a much greater event
Solution : a period of unpleasantness, poor health, lack of money etc.
Q164. Choose the correct meaning of proverb/idiom:
**To hide one's head in the sand**
- to force people to stop arguing
- to keep trying to do something that will never be successful
- to refuse to accept that a problem exists
- to be unable to understand something
Solution : to refuse to accept that a problem exists
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Q165. Choose the correct meaning of proverb/idiom:
**To have a face like thunder**
- to appear and disappear suddenly
- to have an expressionless face
- to look very angry
- to deal with something that is unpleasant
- to be determined to oppose something
Solution : to look very angry
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