IDIOMS AND PHRASES

Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: To leave no avenue unexplored

  • (a) To call in question
  • (b) To roam about
  • (c) To try every source
  • (d) To depend on
Check Answer
  • (c) To try every source

Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: Spick and span

  • (a) Neat and clean
  • (b) Outspoken
  • (c) Already made thing
  • (d) Garrulous
Check Answer
  • (a) Neat and clean

Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: To take the wind out of another’s sails

  • (a) To manouevre to mislead another on the high seas
  • (b) To cause harm to another
  • (c) To defeat the motives of another
  • (d) To anticipate another and to gain advantage over him
Check Answer
  • (d) To anticipate another and to gain advantage over him

Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: To carry the coal to newcastle

  • (a) To work hard
  • (b) To finish a job
  • (c) To do unnecessary things
  • (d) To do menial jobs
Check Answer
  • (c) To do unnecessary things

Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: To turn the cover

  • (a) To take a new way of life
  • (b) To work hard
  • (c) To pass the crises
  • (d) To hide the reality
Check Answer
  • (d) To hide the reality

Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: In double-quick time

  • (a) Steadily
  • (b) Very quickly
  • (c) Gradually
  • (d) Much time
Check Answer
  • (b) Very quickly

Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: The pros and cons

  • (a) For and against a thing
  • (b) Foul and fair
  • (c) Good and evil
  • (d) Former and latter
Check Answer
  • (a) For and against a thing

Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: A sop to cerberus

  • (a) Bribery
  • (b) Hush money
  • (c) Ransom to an enemy
  • (d) Money for compensation
Check Answer
  • (a) Bribery

Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: To give one a long rope

  • (a) To speak ill of
  • (b) To get into trouble
  • (c) To dismiss
  • (d) To allow a man to continue his or crimes
Check Answer
  • (d) To allow a man to continue his or crimes

Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: To hit the nail on the head

  • (a) To hit the target
  • (b) To catch someone napping
  • (c) To guess right
  • (d) To settle the old score
Check Answer
  • (c) To guess right

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