Idioms Exercises – Part 26

.Read the following examples and try to guess the meaning of the idioms

.Most people think that dangerous criminals should be locked up out of harm’s way

Unions and management continued their talks and eventually hammered out a plan to end the strike

out of harm’s way : in a safe place

.some of the fortune was placed overseas out of harm’s way

Hammer out : arrive at an agreement or solution after a lot of argument or discussion