Q: Use any FIVE of the following idioms in sentences to make their meaning clear:
(i) The milk of human kindness
Meaning:
Use in sentence: Maria is completely hard and selfish; she does not have the milk of human kindness in her.
(ii) A rule of thumb
Meaning:
Use in sentence: As a rule of thumb, you should cook a chicken for 30 minutes for each pound of weight.
(iii) Out and out
Meaning:
Use in sentence: He is out and out a liar.
(iv) To wash one’s dirty linen in public
Meaning:
Use in sentence: I was brought up to believe that it was wrong to wash your dirty linen in public.
(v) To pay through the nose
Meaning:
Use in sentence: If you bring a car into the city, you have to pay through the nose for parking it.
(vi) To lose face
Meaning:
Use in sentence: Things will go better if you can explain to him where he was wrong without making him lose face.