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Idioms and Phrases

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Directions: Choose the meaning of idiomatic expressions/phrases: To have no fixed abode

  1. Nowhere permanent to live

  2. Being landless

  3. Unsecured jobs

  4. Being jobless in the off season

  5. Not having own house

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

This is the correct option. For example: Half of the agricultural labour in Punjab has no fixed abode.

Directions: Choose the meaning of idiomatic expression/phrase: To do an about turn

  1. Refusing to follow the orders

  2. Not listening to the opinion of others

  3. Turning away when someone approaches

  4. Change of policy or opinion

  5. Agreeing to all the things

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

This is the correct option. For example: By refusing to go through the previously agreed terms and conditions, the vendor did an about turn from his last stance.

Directions: Choose the meaning of the given idiomatic expression/phrase.

To go above and beyond the call of duty

  1. To show politeness and manners

  2. To show great courage and effort

  3. To show courtesy

  4. To work overtime

  5. To show disrespect for orders

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

This is the correct option. For example: In Kargil, our soldiers went above and beyond the call of duty.

Directions: Choose the meaning of idiomatic expression/phrase:

To be an abbreviated piece of nothing

  1. Someone that could cause one's downfall

  2. Someone considered to be worthless

  3. Someone very significant

  4. Someone who can make a difficult sittuation worse

  5. Someone who makes a lot of fuss about nothing

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

This is the correct option.  For example: Raman's brother is a drunkard. To his family, he is an abbreviated piece of nothing.

Directions: Choose the meaning of idiomatic expression/phrase: To the best of one's ability

  1. Without any hard work

  2. To do something as well as they possibly can do it

  3. To do something full heartedly

  4. Something done thoughtfully

  5. Something done by by an expert

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

This is the correct option. To the best of one's ability means to do something as well as one can possibly do it. For example: In Board Exams, though the Maths paper was very tough, Riya attempted it to the best of her ability.

Directions: Choose the meaning of idiomatic expressions/phrases: To ace

  1. Accomplish something with success

  2. To fail

  3. Know everything

  4. Know nothing

  5. A great tennis player

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

This is the correct option. To ace means to accomplish something with success. For example: I'm sure he'll ace it when he takes that bar exam. The verb ace originated in tennis with the meaning “to hit an unreturnable serve against an opponent.” The idiom ace it, however, originated as student slang for getting an “A” on an exam or in a course but soon was extended to other successful accomplishments.

Directions: Choose the meaning of idiomatic expression/phrase:

To have an ace up their sleeves

  1. Pushing others up

  2. Pushing others down

  3. Something with which one can gain advantage

  4. Someone who plays cards

  5. Powerless

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

This is the correct option. For example: The politicians always have an ace up their sleeves.

Directions: Choose the meaning of idiomatic expression/phrase:

On one's own accord

  1. Without being forced by anyone

  2. Forcefully told to do so

  3. Always wanted to do so

  4. Never wanting to do so

  5. After being told to do so

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

This is the correct option. It means 'without being forced by anyone'.

Directions: Choose the meaning of idiomatic expression/phrase: To be above board

  1. Anything which is very polite

  2. Anything done secretly

  3. Anything done with dishonest intentions

  4. Doing anything on top of a table

  5. Anything which is done openly, honestly and legally

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Correct Option: E
Explanation:

This is the correct option. For example: Suresh's dealing with his customers has always been above board.

Directions: Choose the meaning of idiomatic expression/phrase: To hold all the aces

  1. Have nothing for their employees

  2. Nothing in their hands

  3. Someone who is in a very strong position

  4. Without any advantage

  5. Someone who is an expert in playing cards

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

This is the correct option. For example: These days, the big businessmen hold all the aces.

Directions: Choose the meaning of idiomatic expression/phrase: Rita now eats chicken. She acquired its taste after having it a few times.

  1. Hated it

  2. Began to like it after a few attempts

  3. Liked it, always

  4. Was the favourite

  5. Never liked it

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

This is the correct option. For example: Rita now eats chicken. She acquired its taste after having it a few times.

Directions: Choose the correct meaning of the given idiomatic expression/phrase.

More by accident than by design

  1. Something destined

  2. Something done without delibrate intentions

  3. Something that happens due to foreseen circumstances

  4. Doing something after being told by someone

  5. Something that is done without the desire of doing it

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

This is the correct option. This means something done without deliberate intentions. For example: Rashmi's sucess in interior designing was more by accident than by design.

Directions: Choose the meaning of idiomatic expression/phrase. No accounting for taste

  1. Very good choice

  2. Difficult to explain why different people like different things

  3. Very tasteful and therefore deserving of appreciation

  4. Having a taste for better things

  5. An imaginative cook

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

This is the correct choice. No accounting for taste is said when it is difficult to explain why different people like different things, especially things that you do not like. For example: "I love working at weekends." "Well, there's no accounting for taste!"

Directions: Choose the meaning of the given idiomatic expression/phrase.

Achilles' heel

  1. Someone's weak point

  2. Very strong point

  3. Point of no return

  4. Talking very pointedly

  5. In a strong position

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

This is the correct option. For example, Ramesh is weak in spoken English. It is his 'Achilles' heel'.

Directions: Choose the meaning of the idiomatic expression/phrase.

To be an acid test

  1. To spend unnecessarily

  2. To prove how much useful or effective one is

  3. To be useless

  4. To be rude

  5. To be difficult

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

This is the correct option. An acid test means to prove how useful or effective one is. For example, the posting at Kashmir will be an acid test for Rahul.

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