IDIOMS

1.Durinng the monsoon it rains------------
a)cats and dogs
b)kick the buckets
c)catch twenty two
d)a doubting Thomas

2.Buisiness had now become very dog eat dog: dog eat dog means
a)dogs quarrel each other
b)competetive for profit
c)competetive for advertising
d)quarrel for profit

3 A cock and Bull story means
a) A story in which cock and bull are characters
b)a real incident
c)something dangerous
d)a story that cannot be believed
answers:
1.cats and dogs=Raining heavily with wind

'Kick the bucket' is a colloquial expression for 'die'
One theory, albeit with little evidence to support it, is that the phrase originates from the notion that people hanged themselves by standing on a bucket with a noose around their neck and then kicking the bucket away.

catch-22
an impossible situation where you are prevented from doing one thing until you have done another thing that you cannot do until you have done the first thing:
a catch-22 situation

a doubting Thomas a person who refuses to believe something without having incontrovertible proof; a sceptic.
In the Bible, the apostle Thomas said that he would not believe that Christ had risen from the dead until he had seen and touched his wounds

2.b
dog eat dog=A competitive sales environment

3.

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