IDIOMS AND PHRASES

Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: To be in two minds

  • (a) To be dominated by someone else
  • (b) To be uncertain
  • (c) To work on somebody else’s advice
  • (d) To be in a critical state
Check Answer
  • (b) To be uncertain

Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: Leave one to sink or swim

  • (a) To be in a dilemma
  • (b) To leave to one’s fate
  • (c) To put one in difficulty
  • (d) Not to help one
Check Answer
  • (b) To leave to one’s fate

Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: To rip up old sores

  • (a) To revive a quarrel which was almost forgotten
  • (b) To censure someone in strong terms
  • (c) To strain one’s thoughts to the most
  • (d) To preserve oneself from harm
Check Answer
  • (a) To revive a quarrel which was almost forgotten

Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: A square peg in a round hole

  • (a) An impossible task
  • (b) A scheme that never works
  • (c) A person unsuited to the position he fills
  • (d) None of these
Check Answer
  • (c) A person unsuited to the position he fills

Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: To carry off the bell

  • (a) To call others for help
  • (b) To bag the first position
  • (c) To steal all wealth and flee
  • (d) To trouble others
Check Answer
  • (b) To bag the first position

Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: To live in clover

  • (a) To live ingreat comfort and luxury
  • (b) To live a carefree life
  • (c) To be surrounded by cares and worries
  • (d) To live in great difficulty
Check Answer
  • (a) To live ingreat comfort and luxury

Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: Pin-money

  • (a) Bribery
  • (b) Money paid for compensation
  • (c) Alimony
  • (d) Allowance made to a lady for her expenses
Check Answer
  • (d) Allowance made to a lady for her expenses

Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: To keep the wolf away from the door

  • (a) To keep away from extreme poverty
  • (b) To keep off an unwanted and undesirable person
  • (c) To keep alive
  • (d) To hold the difficulties and dangers in check
Check Answer
  • (a) To keep away from extreme poverty

Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: Get down to brass tacks

  • (a) Start unravelling the mystery
  • (b) Begin to discuss secret matters
  • (c) Begin to talk in plain, straight forward terms
  • (d) Get into the thick of a problem
Check Answer
  • (c) Begin to talk in plain, straight forward terms

Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: To show the white feather

  • (a) To show signs of cowardice
  • (b) To seek peace
  • (c) To show arrogance
  • (d) To become polite
Check Answer
  • (a) To show signs of cowardice

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