Question 1

Directions: Choose the exact meaning of the idiom/phrase from the following.

Mince one's words

Change suddenly
Pull back
To speak in a hurry
Choose them carefully

Answer

Correct Option: D

Question 2

Directions: Find out the correct meaning of the idiom/phrase from the four alternatives.

Not hold water

Not able to prove logical
Squander
To occur to oneself
To understand

Answer

Correct Option: A

Question 3

Directions: Find out the correct meaning of the idiom/phrase from the given alternatives.

In tune with

About to collapse
To praise oneself
To pacify the matter
In agreement with

Answer

Correct Option: D

Question 4

Directions: Find out the correct meaning of the idiom/phrase from the four alternatives.

To blow one's trumpet

To ignore
To make peace
To praise oneself
to enter into a dispute

Answer

Correct Option: C

Question 5

Directions: Find out the correct meaning of the idiom/phrase from the four alternatives.

To pay off old scores

To take revenge
To confess
Exaggerate
To give money

Answer

Correct Option: A

Question 6

Directions: Find out the correct meaning of the idiom/phrase from the four alternatives.

To clip one’s wings

To understand
To weaken the power
To occur frequently
To tease

Answer

Correct Option: B

Question 7

Directions: Find out the correct meaning of the idiom/phrase from the four alternatives.

To stand in good stead

To confess
To be helpful in need
To die
To praise

Answer

Correct Option: B

Question 8

Directions: Find out the correct meaning of the idiom/phrase from the four alternatives.

To be nipped in the bud

To destroy in the very beginning
To be suspicious
To abuse
Come to nothing

Answer

Correct Option: A

Question 9

Directions: Find out the correct meaning of the idiom/phrase from the four alternatives.

To give a wide berth

To disclose
To agree
To value
To avoid

Answer

Correct Option: D

Question 10

Directions: Find out the correct meaning of the idiom/phrase from the four alternatives.

Beat the air

To discourage
To be hopeful in need
Perplexed
To make useless efforts

Answer

Correct Option: D

Question 11

Directions: Find out the correct meaning of the idiom/phrase from the four alternatives.

Hang together

Hopeful
To weaken the power
Support one another
To tell a secret

Answer

Correct Option: C

Question 12

Directions: Choose the alternative that explains the given idiomatic expression.

To give chapter and verse for a thing

To give exact information about something
To eulogise the qualities of a thing
To make publicity of a thing
To attach artificial value to a thing

Answer

Correct Option: A

Question 13

Directions: In the following question, an idiom or a phrases has been given, followed by four alternatives, choose the one which best expresses the meaning of the given idiom or phrase.

A lame duck

Someone in trouble
Someone who limps
Someone who loves animals
Someone who keeps duck

Answer

Correct Option: A

Question 14

Directions: In the following question, an idiom or a phrases has been given, followed by four alternatives, choose the one which best expresses the meaning of the given idiom or phrase.

To turn the other cheek

To sulk and suffer
To respond to violence with violence
To respond to violence with non-violence
To be indifferent to peace overtures

Answer

Correct Option: C

Question 15

Directions: The given sentence contains an idiom/phrase. You are to select the alternative which best expresses the meaning of this idiom/phrase.

To be a good orator, you don’t have to play to the galleries.

To offend audiences
Appease select audience
To appeal to the public with lower taste
To go prepared to the hall

Answer

Correct Option: C

Description: Practice Idiom and Phrases of Difficult level
Number of Questions: 15
Created by: Darshan Khurana
Tags: Idioms and Phrases English Improvement based on Idioms and Phrases Bank. B.Ed M.Ed MBA UPSC

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