IDIOMS AND PHRASES

Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: To spill the beans

  • (a) To reveal secret information
  • (b) To misbehave
  • (c) To keep secrets
  • (d) To talk irrelevant
Check Answer
  • (a) To reveal secret information

Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: To bring one’s eggs to a bad market

  • (a) To face a humiliating situation
  • (b) To bring one’s commodities to a market where there is no demand for them
  • (c) To show one’s talents before audience which is incapable of appreciating them
  • (d) To fail in one’s plans because one goes to the wrong people for help
Check Answer
  • (b) To bring one’s commodities to a market where there is no demand for them

Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: To hit below the belt

  • (a) To work confidentially
  • (b) To harm unfairly
  • (c) To strike at the exact position
  • (d) To hit the correct mark
Check Answer
  • (b) To harm unfairly

Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: To get cold feet

  • (a) To run for life
  • (b) To be afraid
  • (c) To fall sick
  • (d) To become discourteous
Check Answer
  • (b) To be afraid

Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: To take a leap in the dark

  • (a) To take risk
  • (b) To hazard one self
  • (c) To do a task secretly
  • (d) To do a hazardous thing without any idea of the result
Check Answer
  • (d) To do a hazardous thing without any idea of the result

Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: To give/get the bird

  • (a) To get the awaited
  • (b) To have good luck
  • (c) To send away
  • (d) To get the impossible
Check Answer
  • (c) To send away

Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: To be at daggers drawn

  • (a) To be frightened
  • (b) To be ready to face danger
  • (c) To threaten one
  • (d) To be bitter enemy
Check Answer
  • (d) To be bitter enemy

Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: To turn up one’s nose at a thing

  • (a) To show eagerness to have something
  • (b) To show indifference disgust
  • (c) To treat it with contemptuous dislike or
  • (d) To start to grapple with it
Check Answer
  • (c) To treat it with contemptuous dislike or

Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: To save one’s face

  • (a) To hide oneself
  • (b) To oppose
  • (c) To evade disgrace
  • (d) To say plainly
Check Answer
  • (c) To evade disgrace

Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: To split hours

  • (a) To sidetrack the issue
  • (b) To quarrel over trifles
  • (c) To indulge in over-refined arguments
  • (d) To find faults with others
Check Answer
  • (c) To indulge in over-refined arguments

You cannot copy content of this page

Scroll to Top