Directions (41-45): In each of the following questions an idiomatic expression and its four possible meanings are given. Find out the correct meaning of the idiomatic expression and mark the number of that meaning as your answer on the answer sheet.
41. To make clean breast of
(A) to gain prominence
(B) to praise oneself
(C) to confess without reserve
(D) to destroy before it blooms
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42. To play fast and loose
(A) to act in an unreliable way
(B) to be narrow minded
(C) to defeat a person
(D) to play a good game
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43. In the blues
(A) having many blue things
(B) being colourful
(C) behave like a lord
(D) melancholy and low spiritual
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44. To cry wolf
(A) to listen eagerly
(B) to give false alarm
(C) to turn pale
(D) to keep off starvation
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45. A man of straw
(A) a man of no substance
(B) a very active person
(C) a worthy fellow
(D) an unreasonable person
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