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Idiomatic and Phrasal Usage

Idiomatic and Phrasal usage

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Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the option that is the meaning of the underlined phrase in the sentence.
The member suddenly flew off at a tangent and was promptly silenced by the group.

  1. acted rashly
  2. acted opposite to what is expected
  3. made an irrelevant point
  4. became suddenly very angry
  5. did something without any knowledge or experience
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the option that is the meaning of the underlined phrase in the sentence.
My mother pulled out all the stops to prepare a great birthday party for me.

  1. accomplish something remarkable
  2. use all energy to achieve something
  3. make greater efforts than before
  4. use influence and power secretly
  5. achieve something through one's own efforts
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the option that is the meaning of the underlined phrase in the sentence.
Look at that guy. That is a face only a mother could love.

  1. accept the negative consequences of something
  2. accept appearances rather than looking deeper into the matter
  3. have an ugly face
  4. face the fears that one has been trying hard to avoid
  5. be very angry
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the option that is the meaning of the underlined phrase in the sentence.
He is always full of beans when he goes to work.

  1. be well informed and respond quickly
  2. feel extreme happiness
  3. active, lively, healthy
  4. enjoyable or entertaining
  5. unfeeling or down-spirits
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the option that is the meaning of the underlined phrase in the sentence.
She accused the hospital of playing Russian roulette with the health of poor children.

  1. treating someone as if others are stupid
  2. complaining a lot or behaving badly
  3. creating confusion
  4. pretending to be inactive
  5. taking foolish or dangerous risks
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the option that is the meaning of the underlined phrase in the sentence.
Alice stands head and shoulders above all the rest of the people who were interviewed

  1. more than what is expected
  2. to be very important
  3. to be considerably superior to someone
  4. someone having a high position
  5. better than the average
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the option that is the meaning of the underlined phrase in the sentence.
I have enough on you to cook your goose.

  1. arrange to do something with someone
  2. be in an inescapably bad situation
  3. ruin or damage someone
  4. cheat in book keeping
  5. many people working on a project spoil it
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the option that is the meaning of the underlined phrase in the sentence.
People must come forward and cast their bread upon waters for the cyclone hit victims.

  1. look lovingly and longingly
  2. seek for someone or an idea
  3. one who has a considerable influence on others
  4. be generous selflessly
  5. try to remember some past event as much as possible
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the option that is the meaning of the underlined phrase in the sentence.
I had a bone to pick with her, but she was so sweet that I forgot about it.

  1. the best person in the group
  2. ask someone for advice
  3. respond to events as they happen
  4. speed up
  5. have a disagreement to discuss with
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the option which means the underlined idiom in the sentence.
She took to singing just as a duck takes to water.

  1. easily and naturally
  2. take complete control of a situation
  3. decline very quickly
  4. tackle the problem directly
  5. captivate
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the option that is the meaning of the underlined phrase in the sentence.
Everyone at the company was walking on the eggshells until we heard that no one would be fired.

  1. heading towards destruction
  2. be very careful so as not to offend others
  3. head towards the inevitable
  4. try to understand someone before criticizing him
  5. an undertaking that is easy
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the option that is the meaning of the underlined phrase in the sentence.
Warnings about the disastrous effects of pollution upon the environment have fallen on the stony ground.

  1. succeed in doing something where there was a risk of failure
  2. ignore
  3. accept the consequences of some wrong doing .
  4. try to sell the stole goods
  5. start drinking after having given up completely
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the option that is the meaning of the underlined phrase in the sentence.
Make it snappy, will you? Because I need help right now.

  1. Make the best of a difficult situation
  2. Do something that makes one earn a lot of money
  3. Engage in futile activity
  4. Do something quickly
  5. Allow room for someone
Question 14 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the option that is the meaning of the underlined phrase in the sentence.
The book is fast - paced, exciting and full of red herring.

  1. something that distracts
  2. lose one's temper and self control quickly
  3. make somebody angry
  4. denoting colour blindness
  5. official paperwork and bureaucracy
Question 15 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the option that is the meaning of the underlined phrase in the sentence.
The rumor mongers let the genie out of the bottle by spreading the word that the bridge was collasping at Datia fair.

  1. let the things be normal
  2. not to disturb the situation
  3. leave the desire for the unattainable perfection
  4. leave everything to destiny
  5. let something bad happen that can't be controlled
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