Question 1

Directions: Find out the correct expression for the given idiom.

A close shave

shaving daily
real encounter
not hygienic
narrow escape from a danger

Answer

Correct Option: D

Question 2

Directions: Find out the correct expression for the given idiom.

Egg on

shrewd
renounce
urge
trivial

Answer

Correct Option: C

Question 3

Directions: Find out the correct expression for the given idiom.

Eat one`s heart out

voraciously hungry
taking decisive step
give some insight
suffer in silence

Answer

Correct Option: D

Question 4

Directions: Find out the correct expression for the given idiom.

End in smoke

finished victorious
openly hostile
dispense with
come to nothing

Answer

Correct Option: D

Question 5

Directions: Find out the correct expression for the given idiom.

Fly in the face of

defy openly
feel embarrassed
influence somebody
make progress

Answer

Correct Option: A

Question 6

Directions: Find out the correct expression for the given idiom.

Show the white feather

look after oneself
become less in number
suffer a severe blow
be cowardly

Answer

Correct Option: D

Question 7

Directions: Find out the correct expression for the given idiom.

Go haywire

become disorganized
ability to speak fluently
need not be said
jealousy

Answer

Correct Option: A

Question 8

Directions: Find out the correct expression for the given idiom.

Fish in troubled waters

fail to come to
try to benefit from troubled state of affairs
not very well
becoming less in number

Answer

Correct Option: B

Question 9

Directions: Find out the correct expression for the given idiom.

Cut no ice

not getting any ice to slice
sheer foolishness
damn cold
having no effect

Answer

Correct Option: D

Question 10

Directions: Find out the correct expression for the given idiom.

Make a clean breast of

specially make
disgust
confess completely
fail to help

Answer

Correct Option: C

Question 11

Directions: Find out the correct expression for the given idiom.

Make head or tail

understand
show one's feeling openly
reach a crisis
greater part of difficulty

Answer

Correct Option: A

Question 12

Directions: Find out the correct expression for the given idiom.

Happy-go-lucky

careless
amend
bitter dissatisfaction
uncertain

Answer

Correct Option: A

Question 13

Directions: Find out the correct expression for the given idiom.

Stomach it

accept it
destroy it
plain flattery
know thoroughly

Answer

Correct Option: A

Question 14

Directions: Find out the correct expression for the given idiom.

Make a mountain out of a mole

confess completely
take into account
enter into a bargain
make a trivial matter appear serious

Answer

Correct Option: D

Question 15

Directions: Find out the correct expression for the given idiom.

Have an axe to grind

get on well
have a secret to motive to fulfill
watch closely
startled

Answer

Correct Option: B

Question 16

Directions: Find out the correct expression for the given idiom.

Fights shy of

keep away from
severe a suffer blow
mutual concession
evade

Answer

Correct Option: A

Question 17

Directions: Find out the correct expression for the given idiom.

Like water off a duck's back

take into account
have no effect
compensate for
live with one's income

Answer

Correct Option: B

Question 18

Directions: Find out the correct expression for the given idiom.

Go to the dogs

be ruined
fixed
cause a person to loose
reach a crisis

Answer

Correct Option: A

Question 19

Directions: In the following question, four phrasal verbs are given. You are to choose the correct one which best expresses the meaning given:

Cancel something not yet started

break in
call off
burn down
call for

Answer

Correct Option: B

Question 20

Directions: In the following question, four phrasal verbs are given. You are to choose the correct one which best expresses the meaning given:

Succeed a plan

come off
cut on
come round
crop up

Answer

Correct Option: A

Question 21

Directions: In the following question, four phrasal verbs are given. You are to choose the correct one which best expresses the meaning given:

Pay a short unnoticed visit

drop out
drop in
full back
full In

Answer

Correct Option: B

Question 22

Directions: In the following question, four phrasal verbs are given. You are to choose the correct one which best expresses the meaning given:

Escape or be free to leave

get about
get away
get over
get off

Answer

Correct Option: B

Question 23

Directions: In the following question, four phrasal verbs are given. You are to choose the correct one which best expresses the meaning given:

Yield or cease to resist

come round
hang on
give in
grow out of

Answer

Correct Option: C

Question 24

Directions: In the following question, four phrasal verbs are given. You are to choose the correct one which best expresses the meaning given:

Succeed

pull off
put away
put on
put out

Answer

Correct Option: A

Question 25

Directions: In the following question, four phrasal verbs are given. You are to choose the correct one which best expresses the meaning given:

Suffice

go round
get off
hold off
hand in

Answer

Correct Option: A

Description: IDIOMS ANB PHRASES
Number of Questions: 25
Created by: Shiva Nambiar
Tags: VOCABULARY Idioms and Phrases Idiomatic and Phraseal Use Reading Comprehension Vocabulary in Context Specific Detail Specific detail Main Idea

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