Metaphors 9

Question 1

Disgrace

Answer 1

The mark of Cain

Question 2

That is quite absurd or outrageous or excessively cheeky

Answer 2

That takes the cake

Question 3

To be very easy or greatly to one’s liking

Answer 3

To be a piece of cake

Question 4

To be an additional benefit in an already satisfactory scenario

Answer 4

To be icing on top of the cake

Question 5

To demonstrate welcome and forgiveness on a person’s return

Answer 5

To kill the fatted calf

Question 6

To abandon an audit or other inquiry

Answer 6

To call off the dogs

Question 7

An organization with gives a misleading impression of solidity

Answer 7

A house of cards

Question 8

To be faced with many difficulties frustrating a project

Answer 8

To have the cards stacked against one

Question 9

To be utterly frank and open or to honestly disclose one’s position

Answer 9

To lay one’s cars on the table

Question 10

To deal with problems as they arise

Answer 10

To play the cards as they fall

Question 11

Courtesies extended to a person to make him feel important and welcome

Answer 11

The red-carpet treatment

Question 12

To pretend that some blemish does not exist

Answer 12

To sweep something under the carpet

Question 13

To do things in the wrong order

Answer 13

To put the cart before the horse

Question 14

To be virtually unalterable

Answer 14

To be carved in marble

Question 15

The course of action in train is irreversible

Answer 15

The die is cast

Question 16

To be a depressing influence over something

Answer 16

To cast a chill over something

Question 17

Don’t give yourself airs

Answer 17

A cat may look at a king

Question 18

To forgive past indiscretions

Answer 18

To wipe the state clean

Question 19

To cheat a person financially

Answer 19

To take someone to the cleaners

Question 20

Not boderline

Answer 20

Clear cut

Question 21

There are no observers to one’s activity around

Answer 21

The coast is clear

Question 22

To be well understood

Answer 22

To come through loud and clear

Question 23

When sufficient time has passed

Answer 23

When the smoke clears

Question 24

To be exciting

Answer 24

To be a cliff-hanger

Question 25

To reduce another person’s freedom to act as he thinks fit

Answer 25

To clip someone’s wings

Question 26

Secret activity

Answer 26

Cloak and dagger

Question 27

To have another opportunity to do something which should have been done already or to undo something which cannot be undone.

Answer 27

To turn back the clock