IDIOMS AND PHRASES

Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: A tartar

• (A) A literary person
• (B) A person having a violent tempers and is difficult to handle
• (C) An alien
• (D) An acquaintance

Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: To drive something home to somebody

• (A) To accommodate someone
• (B) To make someone vacate a house
• (C) To stand by someone
• (D) To make someone realize something

Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: To have an axe to grind

• (A) To have private end to serve
• (B) To install a grinding mill
• (C) To refuse to produce an outcome
• (D) To work day and night honestly

Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: To end in smoke

• (A) To succeed to make a fire
• (B) To get popularity
• (C) To applaud vividly
• (D) To end in failure

Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: To be above board

• (A) To have sailing mood
• (B) To be honest in any business deal
• (C) To grant debts
• (D) To sentence death punishment

Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: To plough with a lonely furrow

• (A) To ask others for necessary help
• (B) To work without help or support
• (C) To entangle a situation
• (D) To avoid technical work

Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: To pick holes

• (A) To appreciate something more than need
• (B) To hinder something
• (C) To find faults with something
• (D) To bore through an item

Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: To leave someone in the lurch

• (A) To escape without an accomplice
• (B) To fail to provide sources to anyone
• (C) To surprise someone
• (D) To abandon somebody in awkward situation

Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: To play second fiddle

• (A) To be sad and gloomy again
• (B) To gain importance better than before
• (C) To be treated as less important than another person, activity etc.
• (D) To lack in spirit to fight

Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: To beg the question

• (A) To refer to the real point needed to find out i solution to the under discussed matter
• (B) Not to deal the properly the matter being discussed by assuming that a question needing an answer has been answered
• (C) To seek pardon for digression
• (D) To avoid discussion for a hypocritical reason