Idioms Exercises – Part 95

.Fill in the blank of the following story with appropriate words or phrases

Skid row
Go up in smoke
Throw down the gauntlet
Feeling no pain
Hobson’s choice

 ………………………. Despite all the talk about democracy in my family, my father usually gives the rest of us
. …………………………. Although the party had just begun, after his first drink he was
.The principal of our rival school …………………………, and we had no choice but to accept the challenge
. ……………………… The presence of so many bars has turned our neighborhood into another
The mayor’s plan to get the gubernatorial nomination …………………… when he couldn’t end the costly strike

:Answers

Hobson’s choice/ feeling no pain/ threw down the gauntlet/ skid row/ went up in smoke