Idioms Exercises – Part 32

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

.Government is bent on fighting drug trafficking

Al-Qaeda fighters were no more than 2000 to 3000-and the figure is even lower in the wake of the U.S. operation in Afghanistan

?Do you think that he can pull through

.Bent on: Determined, resolved, as in Jamie is bent on winning the math prize

.In the wake of: following (someone or something), especially as a consequence

.Pull through: get through an illness or other dangerous or difficult situation