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S. 138 Dishonour of cheque for insufficiency, etc., of funds in the account. — Where any cheque drawn by a person on an account maintained by him with a banker for payment of any amount of money to another person from out of that account for the discharge, in whole or in part, of any debt or other liability, is returned by the bank unpaid, either because of the amount of money standing to the credit of that account is insufficient to honour the cheque or that it exceeds the amount arranged to be paid from that account by an agreement made with that bank, such person shall be deemed to have committed an offence and shall, without prejudice to any other provisions of this Act, be punished with imprisonment for a term which may be extended to two years], or with fine which may extend to twice the amount of the cheque, or with both:
Up against the wall
"After months of struggling with the project, the team finally made significant progress and feels they are out of the woods. "
Which of the phrases given below each statement should replace the phrase printed in bold in the sentence to make it grammatically correct. If the sent...
Select the most appropriate meaning of the bold idiom.
She's always had a chip on her shoulder .
Once in a while
Hear it on the grapevine
Their ambitious business venture, which they had poured all their savings into, ended in smoke when they failed to secure the necessary funding.
...Under the weather
The bee’s knees
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