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Body language The long arm of somebody or something: Power or influence of somebody or something - The smuggler feared the long arm of the law. To keep somebody at arm’s length: To avoid becoming very friendly or involved with somebody. - Unpleasant colleagues must be kept at an arm’s length. Not see eye to eye with somebody: Not agree with somebody’s viewpoint or attitude. - They both can never see eye to eye on this political issue. Shut one’s eyes to something: To deliberately refuse to see something. - The proprietor has shut his eyes to the problems faced by the workers. To give someone the cold shoulder: To deliberately treat someone in an unfriendly manner. - Although she was the
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- I paid through the nose for this handbag. On one’s last legs: To be weak or in a poor condition. - Our car is on its last legs and we’ll be soon compelled to buy a new one. To have a finger in every pie: To be involved in everything. - She ensures that she has a finger in every pie; she just can’t mind her own business. Discover These set of letters have been pulled out of words that contained them. Without changing the order of these letters find their owners. (Your answers could be different from those given below). HYT RAS NKN NGE RVO ZZL SGU GNO Looking back Pillars of Hercules is the name given to two mountains opposite one another at the entrance of the Mediterranean, called Calp (Gibraltar) and Abyla. They were supposed to have been parted by the arms of Hercules. Ponder All the world over it is true that a double-minded man is unstable in all his ways, like a wave on the streamlet, tossed hither and thither with every eddy of its tide. A determinate purpose in life and a steady adhesion to it through all disadvantages are indispensable conditions of success. - W.M. Punshon. Score card: — Illa Vij |
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