Idioms and Phrases
Idioms and Phrases, CDS, CLAT, Practice Tests, English, Grammar
Questions
Directions: Choose the idiomatic phrase/expression that best completes the given sentence.
She felt relieved when she ____________. She had felt guilty for years.
- got into deep water
- got off the track
- got on in years
- got out of the jam
- got it off her chest
Directions: Choose the idiomatic phrase/expression that best completes the given sentence.
He had ___________ when he realised his daughter had eloped.
- gone through the roof
- gone home in a box
- gone to hell in a hand basket
- gone to war
- gone with the flow
Directions: Choose the idiomatic phrase/expression that best completes the given sentence.
The company needed a new project manager so he decided to ____________.
- take it on the lam
- take the bull by the horns
- take his hat off to
- take the bit between his teeth
- take it or leave it
Directions: Choose the idiomatic phrase/expression that best completes the given sentence.
He __________ at lunch.
- made a mountain of a molehill
- made a pig of himself
- made a fast buck
- made a clean breast
- made his own way
Directions: Choose the idiomatic phrase/expression that best completes the given sentence.
I found myself ____________ and did not know which way to choose.
- on the horns of a dilemma
- on the face of it
- on the wagon
- on the same wavelength
- out of the blue
Directions: Choose the idiomatic phrase/expression that best completes the given sentence.
The right to host the next FIFA is _______________ among the nations.
- the apple of the eye
- an apple of discord
- the comparison of apples and oranges
- in apple pie order
- upsetting the apple cart
Directions: Choose the idiomatic phrase/expression that best completes the given sentence.
It seems as if I will be _____________ before this case is finished in the court.
- fresh as a daisy
- pushing ahead
- pushing up daisies
- pushed around
- pushed out
Directions: Choose the idiomatic phrase/expression that best completes the given sentence.
He laughed so hard he ___________.
- split the difference
- split up
- split hairs
- split a gut
- split off
Directions: Choose the idiomatic phrase/expression that best completes the given sentence.
He wants to keep his children ________ all the time.
- under his thumb
- under pressure
- under the influence
- under the wire
- under a cloud
Directions: Choose the idiomatic phrase/expression that best completes the given sentence.
She still _______ and says that it should solve all her problems.
- has her wires crossed
- has bigger fish to fry
- has big ears
- has a card up her sleeve
- has an axe to grind
Directions: Choose the idiomatic phrase/expression that best completes the given sentence.
I am exhausted and want to ________.
- call off the dogs
- call it a day
- call a spade a spade
- call the tune
- call someone names
Directions: Choose the idiomatic phrase/expression that best completes the given sentence.
The manager asked him to _________ if he wanted things to go well.
- play ball
- play the field
- play cat and mouse
- play away from home
- play a joke
Directions: Choose the idiomatic phrase/expression that best completes the given sentence.
It was a small house with ________.
- no use to man or beast
- nothing to sneeze at
- not a leg to stand on
- not a cat in hell's chance
- not enough room to swing a cat
Directions: Choose the idiomatic phrase/expression that best completes the given sentence.
She bought the car _________.
- for a song
- for all I care
- for love nor money
- for my money
- after fine tuning
Directions: Choose the idiomatic phrase/expression that best completes the given sentence.
Due to lack of intelligence about the enemy the attack being planned is a __________ right from the start.
- dead loss
- dead duck
- dead and buried
- dead meat
- dead wood