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Multiple choice questions

Question:

1. to pull out (all) the stops

– to delay to give yourself more time * He didn’t have enough money to pay his rent and tried to stall the landlord by telling her that he had already sent a check in the mail.
– a phrase used to mean that it is too late to ask for something now; you should have asked for it earlier * The time to ask for a day off this week was last week when I was making up the schedule.
– to expect; to predict; to think something is likely to happen * All of the employees in the company anticipated getting a large cash bonus at the end of the year.
– to give something the most effort that you can; to try as hard as you can * The university research team pulled out all the stops to make the discovery before any other university.

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