Idiom Phrases in Context Test - 2
Idiom Phrases in Context Test 2
Questions
Directions: Four alternatives are given for the idiom/phrase underlined in the sentence. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/phrase.
He was advised by the RTI activist to bring the evidence out into the open.
- in an area that is not closed in
- just in time
- available for everyone to see
- publically visible in the daytime
Directions: Four alternatives are given for the idiom/phrase underlined in the sentence. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/phrase.
Many big and small hotels in Jaipur that are involved in tourism are in the red.
- losing money
- in great demand
- in a financially profitable condition
- located everywhere
Directions: Four alternatives are given for the idiom/phrase underlined in the sentence. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/phrase.
Even if you scratch the surface, you will surely find many skeletons tumbling out of his closet.
- scratch the paint
- investigate superficially
- search his home
- investigate thoroughly
Directions: Four alternatives are given for the idiom/phrase underlined in the sentence. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/phrase.
Hearing the loud noise, he came out of the bathroom in the buff.
- spotlessly clean
- completely unclothed
- in a hurry
- wearing his clothes
Directions: Four alternatives are given for the idiom/phrase underlined in the sentence. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/phrase.
If the government funding is withdrawn, I wonder if the old age pensioners will stand a chance.
- have a possibility of success in life
- agree with the government
- become very angry or annoyed
- maintain their position and refuse to yield
Directions: Four alternatives are given for the idiom/phrase underlined in the sentence. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/phrase.
Not being sure, I think I should sleep on the decision whether to buy or lease this plot.
- do nothing
- postpone indefinitely
- consult with others
- think about it overnight
Directions: Four alternatives are given for the idiom/phrase underlined in the sentence. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/phrase.
The purchase deal cannot go through without the minister’s seal of approval.
- thinking over and approving it
- formal approval from higher authorities
- thinking over the matter and changing his mind
- formal agreement with the proposal
Directions: Four alternatives are given for the idiom/phrase underlined in the sentence. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/phrase.
Have you taken leave of your senses by deciding to go out in this blizzard?
- taking risk of being killed
- behaving crazily
- consulted anyone before
- trying to commit suicide
Directions: Four alternatives are given for the idiom/phrase underlined in the sentence. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/phrase.
The management is walking the tight rope between their efforts of increasing production, and keeping the wages unchanged!
- acting carefully in a difficult situation
- careful not to offend workers
- keeping the budget tight
- working very hard
Directions: Four alternatives are given for the idiom/phrase underlined in the sentence. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/phrase.
When the shares of the company nosedived due to internal trading, the investors realized that they have been taken to the cleaners.
- surprised because not expecting it
- take all of one's money or possessions
- cheated or deceived
- treated very badly
Directions: Four alternatives are given for the idiom/phrase underlined in the sentence. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/phrase.
I had a bad bout of malaria, but now I am back on my feet.
- need to do some exercise to be fit and healthy
- going to work
- physically healthy again
- walking again
Directions: Four alternatives are given for the idiom/phrase underlined in the sentence. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/phrase.
The community is taking steps to curb the menace of drugs!
- adopting a firm position
- assessing all aspects to form an opinion
- involving all
- starting a course of action
Directions: Four alternatives are given for the idiom/phrase underlined in the sentence. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/phrase.
The big-shot at the head office never listened to the branch head, and consequently one day she landed into trouble.
- an important person
- a well known personality but at an unimportant place
- a foolish girl
- a mean person
Directions: Four alternatives are given for the idiom/phrase underlined in the sentence. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/phrase.
When the team lost the tournament, the manager was like a bear with a sore head.
- trying very hard to solve the problem
- to be in a bad mood
- very nervous person
- preparing himself for troubles ahead
Directions: Four alternatives are given for the idiom/phrase underlined in the sentence. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/phrase.
When he came home after his stay in Dubai, he was a bag of bones!
- enjoying immensely
- in best of his health
- extremely thin
- needing some exercise to be physically fit again
Directions: Four alternatives are given for the idiom/phrase underlined in the sentence. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/phrase.
If I catch you again with that boy, I will beat the daylights out of you!
- do something that will not be possible to rectify in future
- do something to restrict your freedom
- hit you before you could react
- hitting very hard and repeatedly
Directions: Four alternatives are given for the idiom/phrase underlined in the sentence. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/phrase.
Backseat drivers can land anyone in serious trouble.
- untrustworthy person whose company should be avoided
- passenger in a car giving unwanted advice to the driver
- a loser taking undue advantage
- a very nervous person
Directions: Four alternatives are given for the idiom/phrase underlined in the sentence. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/phrase.
He took out the purse of the unsuspecting old man before my very eyes.
- before I could blink my eyes
- right in front of me
- happening suddenly without giving time to react
- without any remorse
Directions: Four alternatives are given for the idiom/phrase underlined in the sentence. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/phrase.
He might have just returned from the hospital after a prolonged illness, but he is full of beans.
- lively, healthy and active
- very weak
- not recovered fully
- enjoying his life immensely
Directions: Four alternatives are given for the idiom/phrase underlined in the sentence. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/phrase.
The pager, a fad of yesteryears, is now dead as a dodo.
- unlikely to be retrieved
- unquestionably obsolete
- certain to fail
- a complete failure
Directions: Four alternatives are given for the idiom/phrase underlined in the sentence. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/phrase.
The plan to assassinate the President was hatched behind closed doors!
- done privately, with no intruders
- in prison
- in a far off location
- after shutting the doors of the room
Directions: Four alternatives are given for the idiom/phrase underlined in the sentence. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/phrase.
Your plan to go trekking alone is dicing with death. Take somebody along!
- putting life at risk by doing something dangerous
- a potentially risky situation
- doing something that can cause one’s own downfall
- like experiencing death
The phrase, dead as dodo refers to something that is unquestionably obsolete. Certain to fail refer to the phrase, dead duck. A complete failure refers to the phrase, dead loss. The others are the incorrect meaning of the given phrase.
As the police arrived, the suspect got on his high horse! Then the police took him to task.
- deliberately ignored them
- started behaving in a haughty manner, as though should have been treated with more respect
- did something that caused his own downfall
- gave evasive answers
Directions: Four alternatives are given for the idiom/phrase underlined in the sentence. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/phrase.
As his quotations were the lowest, it is a done deal now!
- complete assigned work
- easy decision
- profitable
- something that is final or settled
Directions: Four alternatives are given for the idiom/phrase underlined in the sentence. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/phrase.
Due to the latest sex scandal, his reputation is beyond redemption. God help him!
- worst than he could imagine
- now impossible to retrieve or reverse
- without any hope of improvement
- under intense scrutiny