2010s (till 2020)

Question 1

Make for

Answer 1

Cause of

Question 2

Yeoman’s service

Answer 2

Efficient or useful help in need

Question 3

Discretion is the better part of valour

Answer 3

It is better to avoid a dangerous situation than to confront it

Question 4

Out of the wood

Answer 4

Free from difficulties

Question 5

Casting vote

Answer 5

The vote that gives one group a majority

Question 6

Look Down on

Answer 6

Regard someone with a feeling of superiority

Question 7

Iconoclast

Answer 7

A breaker or destroyer of images especially religious

Question 8

Swan song

Answer 8

Final achievement or public appearance

Question 9

To eat one’s words

Answer 9

To retract what one has said

Question 10

Dog in the manger

Answer 10

Person who stops other people from enjoying what he cannot enjoy

Question 11

A close shave

Answer 11

Narrow escape from danger

Question 12

Freudian slip

Answer 12

Unintentionally error that seems to reveal subconscious feelings

Question 13

A Gordian knot

Answer 13

An exceedingly complicated problem or deadlock

Question 14

A cog in the machine

Answer 14

A small or insignificant member of a larger organisation or system

Question 15

A wet blanket

Answer 15

A dull or depressing person who spoils other people’s enjoyment

Question 16

Wool gathering

Answer 16

Dreamy or inattentive

Question 17

Under the harrow

Answer 17

In distress, upset or troubled

Question 18

Cold comfort

Answer 18

Poor consolation

Question 19

A gold digger

Answer 19

A woman who associates with or marries a man chiefly for material gain

Question 20

Walk with God

Answer 20

To live in obedience to God’s commands

Question 21

On thin ice

Answer 21

In a risky situation

Question 22

The milk of human kindness

Answer 22

Kind behaviour

Question 23

A rule of thumb

Answer 23

A practical method of doing something

Question 24

To wash one’s dirty linen in public

Answer 24

To discuss private affairs publicly

Question 25

To pay through the nose

Answer 25

To pay too much money on something

Question 26

To lose face

Answer 26

To look stupid

Question 27

To bring grist to the mill

Answer 27

Something that is useful to someone for a particular purpose

Question 28

To keep one’s fingers crossed

Answer 28

Hope that things will happen in a way you want them to

Question 29

With your tongue in your cheek

Answer 29

Speaking or writing in an insincere way

Question 30

A storm in a teacup

Answer 30

Great outrage or excitement about a trivial matter

Question 31

To talk through one’s hat

Answer 31

Talk foolishly without understanding what you’re talking about

Question 32

To let the grass grow under one’s feet

Answer 32

Waste time by delaying

Question 33

Itching palm

Answer 33

Avaricious

Question 34

The primrose path

Answer 34

An easy and pleasant life

Question 35

Break one’s fall

Answer 35

Interrupt a tumble

Question 36

Wash one’s hands of

Answer 36

Disclaim responsibility for

Question 37

To become reconcile to

Answer 37

To accept or be resigned to something not desired

Question 38

To militate against

Answer 38

To make it difficult for something to happen

Question 39

Smash hit

Answer 39

A song, play, etc that is very popular

Question 40

Murphy’s law

Answer 40

Humorous axiom stating that anything that can go wrong will go wrong

Question 41

Place in the sun

Answer 41

A dominant or favourable position

Question 42

Wooden spoon

Answer 42

An imaginary prize given to a person if they finish last in a competition

Question 43

Go bananas

Answer 43

To become extremely angry or excited

Question 44

Plough back

Answer 44

To put profits made back in the business

Question 45

Eager beaver

Answer 45

A hardworking and eager person

Question 46

Ring a bell

Answer 46

To arouse a response

Question 47

Be left holding a baby

Answer 47

Be left with an unwelcome responsibility

Question 48

Cap in hand

Answer 48

In a respectful, humble manner

Question 49

Show and tell

Answer 49

Display or exhibit to public

Question 50

Helter-skelter

Answer 50

In disorderly haste or confusion

Question 51

To the death

Answer 51

Until death

Question 52

Tilt at the windmills

Answer 52

Attacking imaginary enemies

Question 53

Het up

Answer 53

Angry and agitated

Question 54

The whole ball of wax

Answer 54

Everything

Question 55

It’s about time

Answer 55

It should have occurred long ago

Question 56

To cast pearls before swine

Answer 56

To present something of value to someone who can’t recognise it

Question 57

To step into someone’s shoes

Answer 57

To take over a job or some role from someone

Question 58

Stuff and nonsense

Answer 58

Rubbish, nonsense

Question 59

A wild goose chase

Answer 59

The fruitless pursuit of something

Question 60

To be ill at ease

Answer 60

Nervous and anxious

Question 61

Sit on the fence

Answer 61

To not make a decision or take a side when presented with two or more options or possibilities

Question 62

In a jiffy

Answer 62

In an instant

Question 63

To preen oneself

Answer 63

To pride oneself on achievement, personal quality

Question 64

To break the ice

Answer 64

To say or do something that relaxes everyone around

Question 65

Nip in the bud

Answer 65

To stop something before it has an opportunity to become established

Question 66

See eye to eye with

Answer 66

To agree with someone

Question 67

For good

Answer 67

Permanently

Question 68

Tamper with

Answer 68

To make changes to something without permission especially in order to damage it

Question 69

The small hours

Answer 69

The early hours of morning

Question 70

Keep up appearances

Answer 70

To hide the truth about a bad situation and pretend everything is alright

Question 71

Prima Facie

Answer 71

Based on what seems to be the truth when seen first or heard