IDIOMS AND PHRASES

Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: To take umbrage at

  • (a) To be offended
  • (b) To take advantage of
  • (c) To be satisfied
  • (d) To be pleased
Check Answer
  • (a) To be offended

Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: Wild goose chase

  • (a) Run madly after
  • (b) Futile search
  • (c) Not think of consequences
  • (d) Be crazy to achieve something
Check Answer
  • (b) Futile search

Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: It’s no picnic

  • (a) No pleasure trip
  • (b) No comfortable position
  • (c) No easy job
  • (d) No wasteful expenditure
Check Answer
  • (c) No easy job

Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: To pay one back in the same coin

  • (a) To give a word of praise to another
  • (b) To retaliate
  • (c) To provoke one to quarrel
  • (d) To offer another polite attention
Check Answer
  • (b) To retaliate

Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: To rule the roost

  • (a) To preserve oneself from harm
  • (b) To domineer over others with whom one is associated
  • (c) To advance in harmony
  • (d) To move forward on the same path
Check Answer
  • (b) To domineer over others with whom one is associated

Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: To spill the beans

  • (a) To create undesirable trouble in smooth working
  • (b) To reveal a secret
  • (c) To be an element of discord between friends
  • (d) To break relations with
Check Answer
  • (b) To reveal a secret

Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: To keep somebody at bay

  • (a) To prevent enemy from coming
  • (b) To face the challenge
  • (c) To make someone a close friend
  • (d) To keep someone in bad condition
Check Answer
  • (a) To prevent enemy from coming

Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: By the skin of one’s teeth

  • (a) Hardly
  • (b) Only just
  • (c) Attained with difficulty
  • (d) In time
Check Answer
  • (b) Only just

Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: To cast pearls before a swine

  • (a) To offer someone a thing which he cannot appreciate
  • (b) To bring something good before the eyes of a greedy person
  • (c) To spend recklessly on a useless: fellow
  • (d) To indulge in fruitless endeavours
Check Answer
  • (a) To offer someone a thing which he cannot appreciate

Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: Be in the mire

  • (a) Be under debt
  • (b) Be in love
  • (c) Be in difficulties
  • (d) Be uneasy
Check Answer
  • (c) Be in difficulties

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