For each of the following sentences four alternatives are given. You are required to choose the correct meaning of the idiom or phrase given or underlined in the sentence. The class could not keep a straight face on hearing the strange pronounciation of the new teacher.
A). remain serious
B). remain unaffected
C). remain silent
D). remain indifferent
remain serious
keep a straight face: a blank or serious facial expression, especially when trying not to laugh.
1. During the last moments of his life, the criminal made a clean breast of everything he had done.
2. As the bomb exploded people ran helter-skelter .
4. He promised to look into the matter.
5. He is so furious that he would go through fire and water to revenge himself on his foe.
6. What is the meaning of idiom - On the verge of
7. My ten year -old son is an incredible live-wire .
8. What is the meaning of idiom - The poor women do manual labour even when they are in the family way.
9. The criminal was pardoned at eleventh hour just as the was about to be hanged.