To make umbrage

You cannot <u><em>throw dust into my eyes</em></u>.

To give up the ghost

We have to <u><em>keep our fingers crossed</em></u> till the final result is declared.

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

Tell me plainly who broke the mirror, <u><em>do not beat about the bush</em></u>.

The new economic policy is likely to <u><em>run into rough weather</em></u>.

He is <u><em>on the wrong side of fifty</em></u>.

To have an easy time of it