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1. If you've ever had to pay an exorbitant price for something, then, according to one clichéd expression, you may have had to do what?
2. When I was a kid, I'd sometimes ask my grandfather to take me fishing on an afternoon when I'd returned home from school. We'd go to a nearby pond, and after a while he'd say, "I've petered out". What did he mean by this?
3. A paper tiger is someone or something less tough or menacing than it appears to be. Who is the individual who, despite not having coined the phrase, contributed to its increased use and popularity, particularly because of the wide circulation of a book of his "Quotations"?
4. "To put on airs" is to appear to be superior to others or to pretend to be better than one actually is. Which of the following idioms can be used as a substitute for "put on airs" or, at least, means something similar to the expression?
5. I came home one evening with a brand new machine still sealed within the manufacturer's box. My wife wanted to know what it was, so I explained to her that it was essentially a remote-controlled robot that could vacuum carpets, rugs, upholstery, and curtains as well as mop floors and clean toilets. I thought I had bought a bargain as I paid only $100 for it, but my wife said she thought that I had "bought a pig in a poke". What did she mean?
6. To be "pleased as punch" means to be exuberantly satisfied, but why? What is the origin of this cliched expression?
7. According to an idiomatic expression, a heavy fight, particularly one between two evenly matched and well-prepared opponents, is often referred to as what kind of battle?
8. If you encounter a dissembling individual, one who is deceptively pretending to be something lesser than what he or she truly is, then you might say that that individual is "playing" what?
9. The best way to know whether something is truly good or not is to evaluate it personally or to experience it for yourself. In other words, "the proof is in the" what?
10. To "pull out all the stops" is to employ all the resources you have at hand or to commit yourself completely to the accomplishment of something. In other words, you, according to another cliched expression, give 110 percent. However, what is the origin of "pull out all the stops"? To what does "the stops" refer?
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