IDIOMS AND PHRASES

Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: To hang back

  • (A) To show unwillingness to act
  • (B) To ascertain
  • (C) To quit
  • (D) To retire
Check Answer
  • (A) To show unwillingness to act

Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: To be in bad odour

  • (A) To be nobly famous
  • (B) To smell rotten eggs
  • (C) To have a bad reputation
  • (D) To earn unfair profits
Check Answer
  • (C) To have a bad reputation

Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: Once for all

  • (A) Finally
  • (B) Instantly
  • (C) Initially
  • (D) Decidedly
Check Answer
  • (A) Finally

Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: Of no avail

  • (A) Gain without waste
  • (B) Great anticipations
  • (C) Hard target
  • (D) Useless
Check Answer
  • (D) Useless

Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: Out of the wood

  • (A) Highly jeopardized
  • (B) To face perilous happenings
  • (C) Clear of dangers or difficulties 
  • (D) Indispensably significant
Check Answer
  • (C) Clear of dangers or difficulties 

Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: In defense of

  • (A) As opposed to
  • (B) In unanimity among
  • (C) In support of
  • (D) On contrary to
Check Answer
  • (C) In support of

Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: In keeping with

  • (A) In disparity with
  • (B) In harmony with
  • (C) Living with
  • (D) At enmity with
Check Answer
  • (B) In harmony with

Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: In the long run

  • (A) In the end
  • (B) In the pursuit
  • (C) In the course
  • (D) In the history
Check Answer
  • (A) In the end

Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: Not worth his salt

  • (A) Highly trustable
  • (B) Too much salted dish
  • (C) Not worth keeping
  • (D) Over-exaggerating
Check Answer
  • (C) Not worth keeping

Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: In lieu of

  • (A) In contrast with
  • (B) in place of
  • (C) Within reach of
  • (D) On merit of
Check Answer
  • (B) in place of

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