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1. If a woman has "set her cap for him", what is it exactly that she has done?
2. The other day, I was being meticulously careful to rinse some pots and pans spotless before I placed them in the dishwasher. My wife walked into the kitchen and expressed that she thought I was carrying "coals to Newcastle". What in the world was she talking about?
3. Perhaps you have been advised at some point in your life not "to cast pearls before swine". What is the source of this idiom?
4. What might someone ask you if that someone were puzzled by your inability or unwillingness to speak?
5. "Cut to the quick" means "to offend or emotionally hurt someone deeply". In this expression, to what does the term "quick" refer?
6. Suppose you had asked an executive entrepreneur about her business and she commented that there'd "come a cropper". What would she mean by such a statement?
7. Joe arrived at work late this morning and began to behave very confrontationally with his colleagues. Later, when others tried to talk with him, he responded harshly, often with threats, and he maintained a scowl on his face until he left work later that evening. What idiom below could be used to describe Joe?
8. My grandfather and I were at a rally listening to a politician attempt to persuade the audience to support him when my grandfather looked at me and said, "I don't like the cut of his jib". To what literal item does "jib" refer?
9. To "cry wolf", which means to "raise a false alarm or exaggerate a danger", is derived from which literary source?
10. What expression is often used to suggest that a statement or story is false?
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