IDIOMS AND PHRASES

Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: Hobson’s choice

  • (a) Feeling of insecurity
  • (b) Accept or leave the offer
  • (c) Feeling of strength
  • (d) Excellent choice
Check Answer
  • (b) Accept or leave the offer

Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: To be at loggerheads

  • (a) To have tough encounter
  • (b) To be at enmity or strife
  • (c) To face stiff opposition
  • (d) To tax one’s mind and body
Check Answer
  • (b) To be at enmity or strife

Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: To talk through one’s hat

  • (a) To speak fluently
  • (b) To talk nonsense
  • (c) To talk wisdom
  • (d) To speak at random
Check Answer
  • (b) To talk nonsense

Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: To snap one’s fingers

  • (a) To speak abruptly
  • (b) To accept immediately
  • (c) To grasp eagerly
  • (d) To become contemptuous of
Check Answer
  • (d) To become contemptuous of

Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: A pipe dream

  • (a) A pleasant dream
  • (b) A bad dream
  • (c) An impracticable plan
  • (d) A foolish idea
Check Answer
  • (c) An impracticable plan

Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: To give up the ghost

  • (a) To die
  • (b) To make false appearance
  • (c) To terrify others by acting in suspicious manner
  • (d) To leave useless pursuits
Check Answer
  • (a) To die

Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: To have an easy time of it

  • (a) To take the world lightly
  • (b) To indulge in frivolities
  • (c) To squander away resources
  • (d) To live in quiet and comfort
Check Answer
  • (d) To live in quiet and comfort

Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: To stand to one’s guns

  • (a) To keep the guns close to oneself even amid danger
  • (b) To persevere when hardships press
  • (c) To maintain dignified and unbending attitude
  • (d) To maintain one’s position
Check Answer
  • (b) To persevere when hardships press

Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: To take the bull by the horns

  • (a) To punish a person severely for his arrogance
  • (b) To grapple courageously with a difficulty that lies in our way
  • (c) To handle it by fierce attack
  • (d) To bypass the legal process and take action according to one’s own whims
Check Answer
  • (b) To grapple courageously with a difficulty that lies in our way

Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: To lose one’s head

  • (a) To go mad
  • (b) To become nervous
  • (c) To become confused and over excited
  • (d) To lose the balance
Check Answer
  • (c) To become confused and over excited

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