IDIOMS AND PHRASES

Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: To fight to the bitter end

  • (a) To fight with poison-tipped arrows
  • (b) To fight to the last point of enemy position
  • (c) To die fighting
  • (d) To carry on a contest regardless of consequences
Check Answer
  • (d) To carry on a contest regardless of consequences

Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: To give a false colouring

  • (a) To misrepresent
  • (b) To submit the false report
  • (c) To be dishonest
  • (d) To conceal the facts
Check Answer
  • (a) To misrepresent

Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: A red letter day

  • (a) An important day
  • (b) An auspicious day
  • (c) A dangerous day
  • (d) An unimportant day
Check Answer
  • (a) An important day

Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: Queer somebody’s pitch

  • (a) Upset one’s plan
  • (b) Reprimand him
  • (c) Check him
  • (d) Work him up
Check Answer
  • (a) Upset one’s plan

Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: To make the grade.

  • (a) To fail in a task
  • (b) To get good marks in an examination
  • (c) To come out successful
  • (d) To make good one’s previous loss
Check Answer
  • (c) To come out successful

Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: To be up and doing

  • (a) To recover from illness
  • (b) To be actively engaged
  • (c) To progress satisfactorily
  • (d) To be expressive and explicit
Check Answer
  • (b) To be actively engaged

Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: To see eye to eye with

  • (a) To agree
  • (b) To stare fixedly
  • (c) To be angry
  • (d) To take revenge
Check Answer
  • (a) To agree

Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: A jaundiced eye

  • (a) Jealousy
  • (b) A generous view
  • (c) Angry
  • (d) Prejudice
Check Answer
  • (d) Prejudice

Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: To see red

  • (a) To be very angry
  • (b) To victimise someone
  • (c) To find fault with
  • (d) To criticise others
Check Answer
  • (a) To be very angry

Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: To push somebody to the wall

  • (a) To defeat him
  • (b) To humiliate him
  • (c) To heckle him
  • (d) To knock him down
Check Answer
  • (a) To defeat him

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