Last evening I was held up at the meeting.

Hard-pressed

My car <u><em>broke down</em></u> on way to the railway station.

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

To play the gallery

In the organised society of today no individual or nation can <u><em>plough a lonely furrow</em></u…

His father advised him to be <u><em>fair and square</em></u> in his dealings lest he should fall…

Maya had a <u><em>checkered career</em></u>. since I first knew him as an office assistant in th…

To give up the ghost