Find the meaning of the following idioms with the help of a dictionary and use them in your own sentences.
1) pros and cons.
2) bed of roses.
3) Herculean task.
4) blue blood.
5) crocodile tears.
6) eleventh hour.
7) in black and white.
8) red tape
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1) Pros and cons are arguments for or against a particular issue.
2) If you say that a situation is not a bed of roses, you mean that it is not as pleasant as it seems, and that there are some unpleasant aspects to it.
3) requiring the great strength of a Hercules; very hard to perform: Digging the tunnel was a herculean task
4) The term blue blood refers to someone of aristocratic or noble birth. Generally used to mean someone who is a member of “high society.”
5) A false, insincere, or hypocritical display of sadness or remorse.
6) he last possible moment that you can do something, especially prevent something bad from happening.
7) It means that in real life situation it is not compulsory that one person is right and other person is wrong, maybe both are right at their own place.
8) Red tape is an idiom that refers to excessive regulation or rigid conformity to formal rules that is considered redundant or bureaucratic and hinders or prevents action or decision-making.