IDIOMS AND PHRASES

Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: Green thumb

• (A) To be naturally interested in gardening
• (B) To have a thumb disease
• (C) To be lucky
• (D) None of the above

Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: Played havoc

• (A) Caused destruction
• (B) Learnt tough lessons
• (C) Spread epidemics
•  (D) Brought drought

Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: No love lost between

• (A) Enjoying lovable relations
• (B) Forcing continued love
• (C) Understanding well.
• (D) Not on good terms

Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: Fair and square

• (A) Crooked
• (B) Honest
• (C) White-complexioned
• (D) Injudicious

Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: A white elephant

• (A) Imperious possession
• (B) Costly or troublesome possession
• (C) An extinct elephant species
• (D) Indian-African elephants

Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: Out and out

• (A) Partly
• (B) Totally
• (C) Outwardly
• (D) Oustedly

Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: Does not hold water

• (A) Cannot contain anything
• (B) Cannot sink in water
• (C) Cannot meet requirements
• (D) Cannot be drenched

Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: A tight corner

• (A) In hometown
• (B) In a strange town
• (C) Jam-packed in traffic
• (D) In a difficult situation

Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: To make clean breast of

• (A) To cure a breast disease
• (B) To ignore realities
• (C) To change one’s previous manner of living entirely
• (D) To look after something

Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: To keeps one’s temper

• (A) To become violent
• (B) To be in good mood
• (C) To learn barbaric manners
• (D) To be indifferent