Q: Use any FIVE of the following idioms in sentences to make their meaning clear:
(i) Itching palm
Meaning:
Use in sentence: Whenever he sees expensive luggage, the hotel doorman gets an itching palm.
(ii) The primrose path
Meaning:
Use in sentence: Unaware of his doom, he continued down his primrose path.
(iii) Break one’s fall
Meaning:
Use in sentence: When old lady slipped on the ice, a snow bank broke her fall otherwise she might get more injuries.
(iv) Wash one’s hands of
Meaning:
Use in sentence: The prime minister cannot wash hands of the Panama Leaks scandal.
(v) To become reconcile to
Meaning:
Use in sentence: Afzal became reconciled to Safdar.
(vi) To militate against
Meaning:
Use in sentence: These fundamental differences will militate against the two communities coming together.
(vii) To be cognizant of
Meaning:
Use in sentence: Statesmen must be cognizant of the political boundaries within which they work.
(viii) Wages of sin
Meaning:
Use in sentence: Disasters are the wages of sin.