IDIOMS AND PHRASES

Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: A baker’s dozen

• (a) Twelve
• (b) Charity
• (c) Thirteen
• (d) Allowance

Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: To have full hands

• (a) To be fully occupied
• (b) Tb be rich
• (c) To be in lot of troubles
• (d) Tb lead an easy life

Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: To run amuck

• (a) To run a race
• (b) To run about in frenzy
• (c) To feel exhausted
• (d) To run to somebody’s help

Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: A bull in a china shop

• (a) A person who is very ugly but loves the beautiful things of life
• (b) A person who takes a sadistic delight harming innocent people
• (c) A person who becomes too excited where no excitement is warranted
• (d) A person who is rough and clumsy where skill and care are required

Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: By fair means or foul

• (a) Without using common sense
• (b) Without difficulty
• (c) In any way, honest or dishonest
• (d) Having been instigated

Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: To look down one’s nose at

• (a) To backbite
• (b) To show anger
• (c) To insult in the presence of others
• (d) To regard with hall-hidden displeasure or contempt

Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: Hard-pressed

• (a) Bewildered
• (b) Insulted
• (c) Hard discipline
• (d) in difficulties

Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: To be at one’s finger’s end

• (a) To be hopeless
• (b) To be highly perplexed
• (c) To be completely conversant with
• (d) To count things

Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: To pull strings

• (a) To exert hidden influence
• (b) To tease someone
• (c) To speed up
• (d) To start something

Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: A green hom

• (a) An envious lady
• (b) A trainee
• (c) An inexperienced man
• (d) A soft-hearted man