Question 1

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 2

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 3

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 4

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 5

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 6

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 7

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 8

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 9

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 10

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 11

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

To lose ground

To be affectionate
To be hopeful
To be not able to make progress
To win

Answer

Correct Option: C

Question 12

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

To be at large

To bell the cat
To abscond
To be confused
To appreciate

Answer

Correct Option: B

Question 13

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

To be up and doing

To be active
To be confused
To end a conflict
To kill

Answer

Correct Option: A

Question 14

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

To take to task

In a dilemma
To be unwell
To be hostile
To scold

Answer

Correct Option: D

Question 15

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

To hit below the belt

To keep quiet
To maintain life
To strike unfairly
To be confused

Answer

Correct Option: C

Question 16

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

To have an axe to grind

To ascertain
To try utmost
To have a dispute with someone
to appreciate

Answer

Correct Option: C

Question 17

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

To breathe one's last

To abuse
To win a victory
To die
To avoid

Answer

Correct Option: C

Question 18

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

To snap one's fingers at

To support
To repent
To defy
To show contempt

Answer

Correct Option: D

Question 19

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

Palmy days

Last creation
False hope
Official day
Prosperous

Answer

Correct Option: D

Question 20

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

To turn the corner

Certain
By force of
In fashion
To pass a critical stage

Answer

Correct Option: D

Question 21

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

White elephant

Concise view
Large and expensive
By the way
To be equal to

Answer

Correct Option: B

Question 22

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

Over head and ears

Excessively
Common man
Not true
A disaster

Answer

Correct Option: A

Question 23

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

Tooth and nail

Strict
Violently
Suffer a loss
Confused

Answer

Correct Option: B

Question 24

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

To call a spade a spade

To win
To speak plainly
To be ruined
To be astonished

Answer

Correct Option: B

Question 25

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

To have feet of clay

Large part
Secrets
Full of faults
Extremely happy

Answer

Correct Option: C

Description: Online Study material for English Learning with Idioms & Phrases
Number of Questions: 25
Created by: Priya Bakshi
Tags: Idioms and Phrases Improvement based on Idioms and Phrases English Bank. B.Ed M.Ed MBA UPSC

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