IDIOMS AND PHRASES

Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: Cock of the walk

  • (a) Person who dominates others
  • (b) Person who leads others
  • (c) Person who imitates others
  • (d) Person who delegates his powers
Check Answer
  • (a) Person who dominates others

Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: To be down in the mouth

  • (a) To be humiliated
  • (b) To tell lies
  • (c) In a fighting mood
  • (d) Out of spirits
Check Answer
  • (d) Out of spirits

Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: To cock a snook at somebody

  • (a) To ridicule someone
  • (b) To make a rude gesture
  • (c) To deceive somebody
  • (d) To help somebody secretly
Check Answer
  • (b) To make a rude gesture

Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: A red herring

  • (a) A challenge of great intensity
  • (b) A warning against danger
  • (c) A change for the better
  • (d) Argument that leads attention away
Check Answer
  • (d) Argument that leads attention away

Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: To wrangle over an ass’s shadow

  • (a) To act in a foolish way
  • (b) To do something funny to quarrel over trifles
  • (c) To quarrel over trifles
  • (d) To quarrel over the possession of
Check Answer
  • (c) To quarrel over trifles

Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: To take a leaf out of somebody’s book

  • (a) To take him as a model
  • (b) To steal something valuable
  • (c) To follow the dictates of someone
  • (d) To conform to other’s standard
Check Answer
  • (a) To take him as a model

Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: Tell me the sum and subs of your pleadings.

  • (a) summary
  • (b) explanation
  • (c) result
  • (d) effect
Check Answer
  • (a) summary

Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: In summer, woollen goods are drug in the market.

  • (a) rarely available
  • (b) worthless products
  • (c) commodities not in demand
  • (d) available at cheap rates
Check Answer
  • (c) commodities not in demand

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