Idioms and Phrases questions and answers Practice Question and Answer

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Directions: In question four alternatives are given for the Idiom/Phrase underlined in the sentences. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the Idiom/Phrase and mark it is the Answer Sheet.

Reading between the lines I realised that my friend wanted to keep something from me.

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    Looking for meanings that are not actually expressed
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    Reading carelessly
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    Reading with anxiety
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    Glancing over the lines
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Answer : 1. "Looking for meanings that are not actually expressed "

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Direction: In questions four alternatives are given for the Idiom/Phrase underlined in the sentence. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the Idiom/Phrase and mark it is the Answer Sheet.

In cold blood 

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    Excitedly
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    Slowly
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    Angrily
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    Deliberately
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Answer : 4. "Deliberately"

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Which of the phrases (A), (B), (C) and (D) are given below sentence should replace the phrase printed in bold in the sentence to make it grammatically correct? If the sentence is correct as it is given and ‘No correction is required ‘, mark (E) as the answer.

Peter won the race fair and square.

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    fare and square
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    fairly and square
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    fair square
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    fair not square
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    No correction required
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Answer : 5. "No correction required"

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In the following question, four alternatives are given for the idiom/phrase. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/phrase and mark it in the Answer-Sheet.
To make clean breast of 

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    To gain prominence
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    To praise oneself
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    To make a full disclosure
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    To destroy before it blooms
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Answer : 3. "To make a full disclosure "

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In each of the questions given below a/an idiom/phrase is given in bold which is then followed by five options which then try to decipher its meaning. Choose the option which gives the correct meaning of the phrases.

Wrap your head around something

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    Create difficulties by your own
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    Understand something complicated
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    Burn the midnight oil
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    Make everything complex
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    Do something impossible
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Answer : 2. "Understand something complicated"
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Direction(46): In the following, pick out the correct meaning of the following idioms:
Once in a blue moon

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    Frequently
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    Very rarely
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    Something interesting
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    Very common
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Answer : 2. "Very rarely "

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Answer : 2. "admire"

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Direction: - Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the Idiom/Phrase and mark your answer.

When Ram lost the money, he was down in the dumps.

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    sad and depressed
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    very angry at himself
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    accusing others of stealing
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    searching everywhere
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Answer : 1. "sad and depressed "

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