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Idioms & Phrases

English Idioms & Phrases test for those who want to improve their English skills.

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Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

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

To let the grass grow under the feet

  1. Grass takes some time to grow
  2. Grass changes the colour of things
  3. To neglect one's opportunity
  4. Timely action is undesirable
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

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

A chip off the old block

  1. A piece of work
  2. An old friend
  3. Characteristics of one's ancestors
  4. A good bargain
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

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

To hit the nail on the head

  1. Say the right thing
  2. Give someone very harsh punishment
  3. Make a man unconscious
  4. Do the wrong thing
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

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

To see eye to eye with

  1. To agree
  2. To stare fixedly
  3. To be angry
  4. To take revenge
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

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

To take somebody for a ride

  1. To provide entertainment
  2. To keep company
  3. To deceive or humiliate him
  4. To exploit a person
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

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

To frame a person

  1. To befool someone
  2. To make one appear guilty
  3. To praise someone
  4. A narrow escape
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

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

To burn one's fingers

  1. To deliberately harm someone
  2. To get injured in an incident
  3. To suffer from meddling in something
  4. To pay a heavy price
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

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

To get into hot waters

  1. To be impatient
  2. To suffer a huge financial loss
  3. To get into trouble
  4. To be in a confused state of mind
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

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

By the rule of thumb

  1. By the use of force
  2. By the use of trickery
  3. By cheating and deception
  4. By practical experience which is rather rough
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

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

A snake in the grass

  1. Secret or hidden enemy
  2. Unforeseen happening
  3. Unrecognisable danger
  4. Unreliable person
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

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

To wash dirty linen in public

  1. To discuss personal matters of a scandalous nature before unknown persons
  2. To not use the bathroom for washing clothes even when it is provided
  3. To wash clothes when they become dirty
  4. Old and torn dirty clothes should not be washed, but thrown away
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

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

To throw dust in someone's eyes

  1. To show false things
  2. To make blind
  3. To harm someone
  4. To deceive someone
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

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

From hand to mouth

  1. Something repeated often
  2. Dealing on eatable
  3. One who eats too frequently
  4. To live just on necessities
Question 14 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

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

To worship the rising sun

  1. To honour a man who is coming in power
  2. To honour the promising people
  3. To indulge in flattery
  4. To reverse the natural order of thing
Question 15 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

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

By fair or foul means

  1. Without using common sense
  2. Without difficulty
  3. In any ways, honest or dishonest
  4. Having been instigated
Question 16 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

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

To go to the root of a matter

  1. To go deep to know the cause of
  2. To dig the foundation deep
  3. To sow the seeds
  4. To work hard from the beginning
Question 17 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

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

To shed crocodile tears

  1. To weep bitterly and long
  2. To express sorrow which appears deep but is not real
  3. To behave like a cunning person
  4. To deceive by tales of misfortune
Question 18 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

  1. Born in luxury
  2. Born prematurely
  3. Born with defects
  4. Born untimely
Question 19 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

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

To put heart and soul into a thing

  1. To make dead alive
  2. To have a lot of sympathy
  3. To put all one's energy into a thing
  4. To make the best use of an opportunity
Question 20 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

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

The pros and cons

  1. For and against a thing
  2. Foul and fair
  3. Good and evil
  4. Former and latter
Question 21 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

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

To sail under false colours

  1. To pretend to be what one is not
  2. To hide oneself
  3. To conceal the reality
  4. To undertake an air journey
Question 22 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

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

To take to one's heels

  1. To run away
  2. To become fashionable
  3. To move around
  4. To be bold to face serious situation
Question 23 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

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

To blow hot and cold

  1. Changing weather
  2. To be untrustworthy
  3. To be inconsistent
  4. To be rich and poor frequently
Question 24 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

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

To pour oil in troubled water

  1. To foment trouble
  2. To add to the trouble
  3. To instigate
  4. To calm a quarrel or arguement
Question 25 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

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

A man of straw

  1. Screw crow
  2. A man who can be relied upon
  3. A boastful man
  4. A man of little substance
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