Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the highlighted idiom/phrase.
Despite the trust bestowed on the minister, he turned out to be $a\, snake\, in\, the\, grass$ during the revolution.

  • A
    a secret enemy
  • B
    a treacherous person
  • C
    an unforeseen danger
  • D
    an unexpected misfortune

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Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the highlighted idiom/phrase.
He is an interesting speaker but tends to $go\, off\, at\, a\, tangent$.

Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the highlighted idiom/phrase.
Do not trust a man who $blows \, his \, own \, trumpet$.

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The accounts of the murder $made\, her\, flesh\, creep.$

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