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Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

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

Paint the town red

To buy red things
To have a lot of fun
To stand in the way of some one
To catch somebody red handed

Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the correct meaning of the given idiomatic expression.

To throw dust in someone's eyes

To show false things
To make blind
To harm someone
To deceive someone

Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

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

From hand to mouth

Something repeated often
Dealing on eatable
One who eats too frequently
To live just on necessities

Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

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

To worship the rising sun

To honour a man who is coming in power
To honour the promising people
To indulge in flattery
To reverse the natural order of thing

Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

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

By fair or foul means

Without using common sense
Without difficulty
In any ways, honest or dishonest
Having been instigated

Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

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

To go to the root of a matter

To go deep to know the cause of
To dig the foundation deep
To sow the seeds
To work hard from the beginning

Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

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

To shed crocodile tears

To weep bitterly and long
To express sorrow which appears deep but is not real
To behave like a cunning person
To deceive by tales of misfortune

Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

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

To be born with a silver spoon in one's mouth

Born in luxury
Born prematurely
Born with defects
Born untimely

Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

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

To put heart and soul into a thing

To make dead alive
To have a lot of sympathy
To put all one's energy into a thing
To make the best use of an opportunity

Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the exact meaning of the given idiom/phrase.

Stem from

Ruin
Originate
Induce
Kill

Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the exact meaning of the underlined idiom/phrase.

The child pulled a long face when the sweets were over.

To look disappointed
Feel good
Retreat
Run away

Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

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

The pros and cons

For and against a thing
Foul and fair
Good and evil
Former and latter

Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the exact meaning of the given idiom/phrase.

Make up

Get about
Leave
Reveal
Reconcile

Question 14 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

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

Question 15 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: In the following question, an idiom or a phrase has been given, followed by four alternatives. Choose the one which best expresses the meaning of the given idiom or phrase.

A close shave

A lucky escape
A clean shave
A well-guarded secret
A narrow escape

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