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
- (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
- (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
- (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
- (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
- (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
- (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
- (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
- (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
- (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
- (c) Be in difficulties