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ENGLISH - IDIOMS

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Directions: Choose the option that best expresses the meaning of the idiom.

To play to the gallery

  1. to work hard to achieve the best

  2. trying to get public appreciation

  3. use wrong means to achieve success

  4. to be able to do a work easily


Correct Option: B

Directions: Choose the option that best expresses the meaning of the idiom.

To be lost in the cloud

  1. to meet with one's death

  2. to be perplexed

  3. to be concealed from view

  4. to find oneself in a very uncomfortable position


Correct Option: B

Directions: Choose the option that best expresses the meaning of the idiom.

To accept the gauntlet

  1. to accept defeat

  2. to accept a challenge

  3. to suffer humiliation

  4. to accept an honor


Correct Option: B

Directions: Choose the option that best expresses the meaning of the idiom.

To wash one's dirty linen in public

  1. to criticize one's dirty acts in public

  2. to quarrel furiously in the open

  3. to do some ugly work in public

  4. to discuss scandalous matters of personal nature in the presence of strangers


Correct Option: D

Directions: Choose the option that best expresses the meaning of the idiom.

To have brush with

  1. knowledge of painting

  2. to be on pleasing terms

  3. to be impressed

  4. to encounter


Correct Option: D

Directions: Choose the option that best expresses the meaning of the idiom which is underlined.

He shows the white feather when it comes to dealing with real life problems.

  1. acts cowardly

  2. tells lies

  3. runs away

  4. shows true colors


Correct Option: A

Directions: Choose the option that best expresses the meaning of the idiom which is underlined.

You will upset the apple cart if you reveal the truth.

  1. make others sad

  2. cause uproar

  3. disturb the arrangement

  4. be in trouble


Correct Option: C

Directions: Identify that correct idiom or phrase to complete the sentence.

We got through _________with our perseverance.

  1. little times

  2. lean times

  3. fat times

  4. strong times


Correct Option: B

Directions: Choose the option that best expresses the meaning of the idiom which is underlined.

The children were so hungry that they tucked into their dinner.

  1. ate heartily

  2. ate hurriedly

  3. waited impatiently

  4. attacked hungrily


Correct Option: A

Directions: Choose the option that best expresses the meaning of the idiom which is underlined.

Mark is never satisfied as his eyes are bigger than his stomach.

  1. far sighted

  2. ambitions

  3. greedy

  4. bad intentions


Correct Option: C

Directions: Identify that correct idiom or phrase to complete the sentence.

Death of her grandfather left her___________.

  1. squaring a cloud

  2. in a cloud

  3. on cloud nine

  4. under a cloud


Correct Option: D

Directions: Identify that correct idiom or phrase to complete the sentence.

Your father will _________for your mistake.

  1. beat you alive

  2. skin you alive

  3. bake you alive

  4. berate you alive


Correct Option: B

Directions: Identify that correct idiom or phrase to complete the sentence.

Britney ________when she topped her high school exams.

  1. skipped a boat

  2. skipped a beat

  3. skimped a boat

  4. skimped a beat


Correct Option: B

Directions: Identify that correct idiom or phrase to complete the sentence.

Jennifer got herself _____________.

  1. a new pleasing life

  2. a new taste in life

  3. a new ease in life

  4. a new lease of life


Correct Option: D

Directions: Choose the option that best expresses the meaning of the idiom which is underlined.

The beauty of Monalisa beggared description.

  1. was extraordinary to describe

  2. was highly praised

  3. was highly appealing

  4. needed no description


Correct Option: A
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