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We use a variety of idioms in our daily life to describe various situations. Describethe narrator’s situation in your own words, making use of some of the new idiomsyou have just learnt.

1. Saved by the bell – saved from being counted out by the ringing of bell at the end of a round of boxing.

2. Hang out to dry – leave some one in a difficult situation.

3. Grasp/clutch at straw’s try any method to overcome a crisis.

4. Back to the wall – in a serious difficulty.

5. Alarm bells ringing – sign of something going wrong.

6. Run the risk – exposure to injury or loss

7. Escape by the skin of one’s teeth – have a narrow escape

8. At one’s wit’s end – desperate

9. Catch 22 situation – a situation in which it’s impossible to succeed because of conflicting conditions or rules.

10. Dodge a bullet – barely escaped from a disastrous situation

11. In dire straits – in a serious, bad situation

12. You’ve got your work cut out for you – you have a arge and difficult job to perform

13. Last resort – last option

14. The tip of the iceberg – the biggest part of the problem is hidden

15. Vicious cycle – chain like issues

16. To be in double bind – to choose between two unsatisfactory alternatives

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1. The batsman was tired and was saved by the bell otherwise he would have lost his wicket.

2. When Lucas was in dire straits after bidding the highest price, he found that his friend had hung him out to dry. ‘

3. The man who got suspended from his job like a drowning man clutching at straw, sought the advice of his door peon to come out of the crisis.

4. The narrator had little money to buy the painting and was back to the wall.

5. Seeing the policeman round the comer, the chain snatcher heard alarm bells ringing in his head.

6. If you tell her the truth, you may run the risk of hurting.

7. Lucas escaped by the skin of his teeth when a gentleman offered him 100 guineas to buy the painting for which he had made the highest bid.

8. I am unable to send a mail due to poor connectivity all day long. I am at my wit’s end.

9. Getting one’s first job is a catch-22 because companies want to hire experienced candidates. But how could one get experience before being hired?

10. Jaswanth’s girl friend told the press that she was glad she broke up with him. She had infact dodged a bullet.

11. Sunitha’s husband abandoned her. She is really in dire straits as she had stupidly resigned her job soon after marriage.

12. If you wish to complete a degree course in a single sitting, you’ve got your work cut out for you.

13. Politics is the last resort of the scoundrels.

14. Common men are apprehensive that Nirav Modi’s scam and Rotomac pen owner’s scam which are just a tip of the ice berg. Many scams may still be untraced or untraceable.

15. Poverty causes a vicious cycle as it prevents education and thus it perpetuates poverty.

16. Kamala was in a double bind as she had to choose a low paying job or an early marriage with a rogue neither of which she liked.

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