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Bepin Choudhurys Lapse of Memory — Question 8

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Question
Given below are jumbled sentences. Working in groups, rearrange the words in each sentence to form correct sentences. You will find that each sentence contains an idiomatic expression that you have come across in the lesson. Underline the idiom and write down its meaning. Then use your dictionary to check the meaning. One sentence has been worked out for you as an example. Jumbled sentence: vanished/The car/seemed to/into thin/have/air.
Answer

The car seemed to have
vanished into thin air.
Idiom:
vanished into thin air:
disappeared or vanished in a mysterious way.
(i)
Stop/and tell me/beating about/what you want/the bush.
Answer:
Stop
beating about the bush
and tell me what you want.
Idiom: beating about the bush—talk vaguely
(ii)
don’t pay/if you/attention/you might/the wrong train/to the announcement/ board.
Answer:
If you don’t pay attention to the announcement, you might board the wrong train.
Idiom: Pay attention: be careful
(iii)
The villagers/tried/the crime/on the young woman/to pin.
Answer:
The villagers tried to
pin the crime on
the young woman.
Idiom: Pin the crime on (implicate the wrong person)
(iv)
Bepin Babu/orders to/telling people/under/loved/doctor’s/eat early/that he was.
Answer:
Bepin Babu loved telling people that he was
under doctor’s order
to eat early.
Idiom: Under one’s order (doctor’s): under instruction of someone
(v)
the students/The teacher/his eyebrows/when/said that/all their lessons/ raised/they had revised.
Answer:
The teacher
raised his eyebrows
when the students said that they had revised all their lessons, (showed his assessment).
Idiom:
Raised the eyebrows
—to feel annoyed: showing annoyance.