Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: A red herring
- (a) A warning against danger
- (b ) A challenge of great intensity
- (c) Argument that leads attention away
- (d) Incoming of prosperity
- (c) Argument that leads attention away
Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: To show the white feather
- (a) To seek peace
- (b) To accept defeat
- (c) To show signs of cowardice
- (d) To show friendship
- (c) To show signs of cowardice
Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: To turn the comer
- (a) To prosper after poverty
- (b) To punish the wrong-doer
- (c) To improve one’s fate and fortune
- (d) To improve after illness
- (c) To improve one’s fate and fortune
Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: Shot in the arm
- (a) A fatal blow
- (b) An offensive remark
- Â (c) A dreadful happening
- (d) A thing that encourages
- (d) A thing that encourages
Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: A bull in a china shop
- (a) One who becomes too excited where no excitement is warranted
- (b) One who takes sadistic delight in harming innocent people
- (c) One who is very ugly but loves the beautiful things of life
- (d) One who is rough and clumsy where skill and care are required
- (d) One who is rough and clumsy where skill and care are required
Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: To rip up old sores
- (a) To preserve oneself from harm
- (b) To revive a quarrel which was almost forgotten
- (c) To censure someone in strong terms
- (d) To strain one’s thoughts to the utmost
- (b) To revive a quarrel which was almost forgotten
Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: Flash in the pan
- (a) Hopeful situation
- (b) Change for the better
- (c) Explosion
- (d) Promising start followed by failure
- (d) Promising start followed by failure
Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: To plough the sands
- (a) To busy oneself in a way which cannot lead to any profitable result
- (b) To advance one’s position in life
- (c) To afford ground for expecting a good result
- (d) To act together in harmony
- (a) To busy oneself in a way which cannot lead to any profitable result
Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: To cock a snook at somebody
- (a) to deceive somebody
- (b) To put a blame on somebody
- (c) To make fun of somebody
- (d) To make a rude gesture
- (d) To make a rude gesture
Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: To hit the jackpot
- (a) To gamble.
- (b) To get an unexpected victory
- (c) To be wealthy
- (d) To make money unexpectedly
- (d) To make money unexpectedly