Questions
Directions: Read the given sentence carefully and fill in the blank with the most appropriate idiom/phrase from the options given below.
Unless we ___________ we cannot succeed.
- pull together
- pull through
- pull down
- pull up
- put off
Directions: Read the given sentence carefully and fill in the blank with the most appropriate idiom/phrase from the options given below.
The thief was caught __________.
- neither here nor there
- burying the hatchet
- feathering his own nest
- red handed
- trying his hand
Directions: Read the given sentence carefully and fill in the blank with the most appropriate idiom/phrase from the options given below.
He ________ his friends claims.
- trumped up
- prevailed on
- hit upon
- fixed upon
- backed up
Directions: Read the given sentence carefully and fill in the blank with the most appropriate idiom/phrase from the options given below.
They are determined to ____________ for their rights.
- speak of
- stand over
- stand up
- stand by
- set down
Directions: Read the given sentence carefully and fill in the blank with the most appropriate idiom/phrase from the options given below.
He agreed to _________ my orders.
- carry out
- carry forward
- call in
- carry on
- carry off
Directions: Read the given sentence carefully and fill in the blank with the most appropriate idiom/phrase from the options given below.
He ____________ the problem in a few minutes.
- worked on
- worked out
- worked up
- worked upon
- turned out
Directions: Read the given sentence carefully and fill in the blank with the most appropriate idiom/phrase from the options given below.
The protesters seem determined, and are not likely to __________.
- give up
- give in
- give out
- give way
- give away
Directions: Read the given sentence carefully and fill in the blank with the most appropriate idiom/phrase from the options given below.
The new leader has been able to _________ all opposition.
- bear away
- bear down
- bear with
- bear up
- bear upon
Directions: Read the given sentence carefully and fill in the blank with the most appropriate idiom/phrase from the options given below.
When I saw her last she was _____________ with grief over her husband's passing.
- at sixes and sevens
- giving herself airs
- on the alert
- beside herself
- bidding fair
Directions: Read the given sentence carefully and fill in the blank with the most appropriate idiom/phrase from the options given below.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni first ____________ in the local tournaments.
- won his spurs
- won his laurels
- played fast and loose
- worked on and off
- threw up
Directions: Read the given sentence carefully and fill in the blank with the most appropriate idiom/phrase from the options given below.
The assembly speaker is ___________ over the speech regarding marginalising minorities.
- at daggers drawn
- out of the way
- in hot water
- on tenterhooks
- on a wild goose chase
Directions: Read the given sentence carefully and fill in the blank with the most appropriate idiom/phrase from the options given below.
The witness ___________ in his cross examination.
- cut a poor figure
- drew the line
- put a good face on
- fell flat
- all eyes
Directions: Read the given sentence carefully and fill in the blank with the most appropriate idiom/phrase from the options given below.
That territory is ___________ between the two countries.
- bag and baggage
- bone of contention
- on the cards
- in the cotton line
- keeping up appearances
Directions: Read the given sentence carefully and fill in the blank with the most appropriate idiom/phrase from the options given below.
I am sure he __________ he looked very serious.
- will not pass muster
- blew his own trumpet
- cooks the accounts
- means business
- is the thing
Directions: Read the given sentence carefully and fill in the blank with the most appropriate idiom/phrase from the options given below.
He is such an absent minded fellow that he does not know what ____________.
- has come to a head
- is all the rage
- he is about
- passes under his nose
- is now resting on its oars