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
- (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
- (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
- (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
- (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
- (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
- (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
- (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
- (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
- (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
- (a) To show signs of cowardice