Questions
Directions: Choose the alternative that explains the given idiomatic expression.
To see eye to eye with
- To agree
- To stare fixedly
- To be angry
- To take revenge
Directions: Choose the alternative that explains the given idiomatic expression.
To take somebody for a ride
- To provide entertainment
- To keep company
- To deceive or humiliate him
- To exploit a person
Directions: Choose the alternative that explains the given idiomatic expression.
To frame a person
- To befool someone
- To make one appear guilty
- To praise someone
- A narrow escape
Directions: Choose the exact meaning of the idiom/phrase from the following.
To look blue
- To be annoyed
- To look sad
- To feel happy
- To look sick
Directions: Choose the alternative that explains the given idiomatic expression.
To burn one's fingers
- To deliberately harm someone
- To get injured in an incident
- To suffer from meddling in something
- To pay a heavy price
Directions: Choose the alternative that explains the given idiomatic expression.
To get into hot waters
- To be impatient
- To suffer a huge financial loss
- To get into trouble
- To be in a confused state of mind
Directions: Choose the alternative that explains the given idiomatic expression.
By the rule of thumb
- By the use of force
- By the use of trickery
- By cheating and deception
- By practical experience which is rather rough
Directions: Choose the exact meaning of the idiom/phrase from the following.
In a jiffy
- Suddenly
- Outstanding
- In a fix
- Appropriate
Directions: Choose the exact meaning of the idiom/phrase from the following.
Hot headed
- The leader
- One who is very rash
- The fighter
- Brave person
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
Directions: Choose the exact meaning of the idiom/phrase from the following.
In this competition there is complete fair play
- Honest means
- No cheating
- Good chances
- Good name
Directions: Choose the alternative that explains the given idiomatic expression.
A snake in the grass
- Secret or hidden enemy
- Unforeseen happening
- Unrecognisable danger
- Unreliable person
Directions: The given sentence contains an idiom/phrase. You are to select the alternative which best expresses the meaning of this idiom/phrase.
Once in a blue moon, we meet each other.
- Frequently
- Hardly ever
- Very seldom indeed
- In the light of a blue moon
Directions: The given sentence contains an idiom/phrase. You are to select the alternative which best expresses the meaning of this idiom/phrase.
He has been jobless for several months and it is his wife who keeps the pot boiling.
- avoid starvation
- keeps the fire burning
- be angry
- keeps cooking
Directions: Choose the alternative that explains the given idiomatic expression.
To wash dirty linen in public
- To discuss personal matters of a scandalous nature before unknown persons
- To not use the bathroom for washing clothes even when it is provided
- To wash clothes when they become dirty
- Old and torn dirty clothes should not be washed, but thrown away