Idioms and Phrases
Idioms and Phrases test covers important questions for english test. Practice test for english exam
Questions
Directions: Choose the meaning of idiomatic expressions/phrases:
To have no fixed abode
- Nowhere permanent to live
- Being landless
- Unsecured jobs
- Being jobless in the off season
- Not having own house
Directions: Choose the meaning of idiomatic expression/phrase:
To do an about turn
- Refusing to follow the orders
- Not listening to the opinion of others
- Turning away when someone approaches
- Change of policy or opinion
- Agreeing to all the things
Directions: Choose the meaning of the given idiomatic expression/phrase.
To go above and beyond the call of duty
- To show politeness and manners
- To show great courage and effort
- To show courtesy
- To work overtime
- To show disrespect for orders
Directions: Choose the meaning of idiomatic expression/phrase:
To be an abbreviated piece of nothing
- Someone that could cause one's downfall
- Someone considered to be worthless
- Someone very significant
- Someone who can make a difficult sittuation worse
- Someone who makes a lot of fuss about nothing
Directions: Choose the meaning of idiomatic expression/phrase:
To the best of one's ability
- Without any hard work
- To do something as well as they possibly can do it
- To do something full heartedly
- Something done thoughtfully
- Something done by by an expert
Directions: Choose the meaning of idiomatic expressions/phrases:
To ace
- Accomplish something with success
- To fail
- Know everything
- Know nothing
- A great tennis player
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To have an ace up their sleeves
- Pushing others up
- Pushing others down
- Something with which one can gain advantage
- Someone who plays cards
- Powerless
Directions: Choose the meaning of idiomatic expression/phrase:
On one's own accord
- Without being forced by anyone
- Forcefully told to do so
- Always wanted to do so
- Never wanting to do so
- After being told to do so
Directions: Choose the meaning of idiomatic expression/phrase:
To be above board
- Anything which is very polite
- Anything done secretly
- Anything done with dishonest intentions
- Doing anything on top of a table
- Anything which is done openly, honestly and legally
Directions: Choose the meaning of idiomatic expression/phrase:
To hold all the aces
- Have nothing for their employees
- Nothing in their hands
- Someone who is in a very strong position
- Without any advantage
- Someone who is an expert in playing cards
Directions: Choose the meaning of idiomatic expression/phrase:
Rita now eats chicken. She acquired its taste after having it a few times.
- Hated it
- Began to like it after a few attempts
- Liked it, always
- Was the favourite
- Never liked it
Directions: Choose the correct meaning of the given idiomatic expression/phrase.
More by accident than by design
- Something destined
- Something done without delibrate intentions
- Something that happens due to foreseen circumstances
- Doing something after being told by someone
- Something that is done without the desire of doing it
Directions: Choose the meaning of idiomatic expression/phrase.
No accounting for taste
- Very good choice
- Difficult to explain why different people like different things
- Very tasteful and therefore deserving of appreciation
- Having a taste for better things
- An imaginative cook
Directions: Choose the meaning of the given idiomatic expression/phrase.
Achilles' heel
- Someone's weak point
- Very strong point
- Point of no return
- Talking very pointedly
- In a strong position
Directions: Choose the meaning of the idiomatic expression/phrase.
To be an acid test
- To spend unnecessarily
- To prove how much useful or effective one is
- To be useless
- To be rude
- To be difficult