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1. To view something including its good and bad qualities is to view it `warts and all`. This phrase is most likely linked to which of the following?
2. We have all, at one time, got off `scot free` i.e. avoided paying for or doing something. Where does the expression come from?
3. Ever had to swallow your pride, admit error and `eat humble pie`? Tell me: does this expression really come from the dinner table?
4. `Beyond the pale` means unacceptable and outside normal standards of decency. From where do we get this admonishment?
5. To be ignored or shunned by people, especially those whom you consider to be your friends, is not nice. When it happens, you are said to be `sent to` which English city?
6. To be `three sheets to the wind` is to be very drunk. What were the sheets themselves in the origin of this expression?
7. That which is dropping in standard or reputation, is said to be `going to the dogs`. Which of the following can claim to be the source of this expression?
8. The generic term `soap opera` for a kind of television or radio show can be laid squarely at the door of soap manufacturers.
9. An item that is more trouble than it is worth, and is all but useless, is termed a `white elephant`. Where does this epithet come from?
10. Hopefully, your prowess in answering trivia questions correctly isn't just a `flash in the pan`, that which looks promising initially, but does not go on to amount to anything. Where do we get this phrase from originally?
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