Choose the correct idioms:

1. Some of the new trainees were tempted to (exaggerate the facts) about their work attachments.

(a) strike a raw nerve

(b) struck dumb

(c) stretch the truth

2. Anita and Clement had lunch together but it was (entirely devoted to business.)

(a) with no strings attached.

(b) strictly business.

(c) stringing him along.

3. Christine eventually managed to get a loan (without conditions.)

(a) with no strings attached.

(b) with another string to her bow.

(c) by stringing him along.

4. The kidnapper was (shocked) on hearing the death sentence.

(a) struck home

(b) struck dumb

(c) struck a false note

5. A bikini show at halftime during the tournament would be (going from admirable to absurd.)

(a) going from the sublime to the ridiculous!

(b) stringing people along

(c) striking a false note