The P.M has pulled up Orissa partymen.

To pour oil in troubled water

I <u><em>sent him about his business</em></u> as I could stand his insolence no longer.

Last evening I was <u><em>held up</em></u> at the meeting.

This report <u><em>calls in question</em></u> all previous research on the subject.

The casting vote of the chairman <u><em>clinched the issue</em></u>.

To worship the rising sun

The company has been handed over to new masters <u><em>lock, stock and barrel</em></u>.

The captors of the kidnapped kept his family <u><em>on tenterhooks</em></u>.