Q: Use any FIVE of the following idioms in sentences to make their meaning clear:
(i) To bring grist to the mill
Meaning:
Use in sentence: Industrial revolution in Pakistan will bring grist to the mill in order to combat economic crisis.
(ii) To keep one’s fingers crossed
Meaning:
Use in sentence: CSS aspirants are keeping their fingers crossed that they will pass this year attempt.
(iii) With one’s tongue in one’s cheek
Meaning:
Use in sentence: The comedy writer pen stories to be viewed as tongue-in-cheek.
(iv) A storm in the tea cup
Meaning:
Use in sentence: Most of the protests in Pakistan are only a storm in the tea cup because they do not protest on big issues rather on petty issues.
(v) To talk through one’s hat
Meaning:
Use in sentence: Instead of coming to the point, they were talking through their hat.
(vi) Hum and Haw
Meaning:
Use in sentence: The food Standard Agency of USA hummed and hawed during Christmas.
(vii) To let the grass grow under one’s feet
Meaning:
Use in sentence: After graduation, Sara did not applied for the job and let the grass grow under her feet.
(viii) Penny wise and pound foolish.
Meaning:
Use in sentence: Cutting subsidies to resolve economic crisis is the penny wise and pound foolish approach because it will not resolve economic crisis but will exacerbate over time.