Question

B. Fill in the blanks choosing suitable idiomatic expressions from the box.
(at sixes and sevens,
catch red-handed, hand to mouth,
smell a rat,put all eggs in one basket)
1. The thief was...........
2. My uncle, who is a farmer, has no savings. He just lives from........
3. A wise man will never........
4. My younger brother does not tidy up his room though I have told him never to leave his things........
5. They are very crooked. I.........
in their plans.​

Answer 1

Answer:

1.catch red handed

2.hand to mouth

3.put all eggs in one basket

4.at sixes and sevens

5.smell a rat

Answer 2

Idioms

1. The thief was....caught red-handed.......

2. My uncle, who is a farmer, has no savings. He just lives from....hand to mouth....

3. A wise man will never...put all eggs in one basket.....

4. My younger brother does not tidy up his room though I have told him never to leave his things..at sixes and sevens......

5. They are very crooked. I....smell a rat.....

in their plans.​

Explanation:

• Idiomatic expressions are small phrases that have an implicit meaning very different from the lexical meaning of the individual words.
• The idiomatic phrase 'at sixes and sevens' means in a meddlesome or confused condition just as in line number 4. where the room is in a mess.
• To catch red handed means to get someone while the culprit is performing the crime like in the first sentence when the thief was caught.
• Hand to mouth refers to the condition of living only on the meagre  means of earning as in line two where the uncle is a poor farmer.
• To get an inkling of something nasty is to smell a rat like in line five when people are crooked.
• To put all eggs in one basket refers to making a wrong investment line in line 3 which refers to the fact that a wise man will never put all eggs in one basket.  

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