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IDIOMS AND PHRASES (BACKUP) MCQs

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Question 2211. For each of the following sentences four alternatives are given. You are required to choose the correct meaning of the idiom or phrase given or underlined in the sentence. Once in a blue moon

On rare occasions
Once in a month
Bi-weekly
Every now and then

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Answer: Option A. -> On rare occasions

Question 2212. For each of the following sentences four alternatives are given. You are required to choose the correct meaning of the idiom or phrase given or underlined in the sentence. To be a good Samaritan

To be law-abiding
A genuinely charitable person
A wise person
A religious person

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Answer: Option B. -> A genuinely charitable person

Question 2213. For each of the following sentences four alternatives are given. You are required to choose the correct meaning of the idiom or phrase given or underlined in the sentence. To hold a brief for

To help someone
To defend someone
To do someone a favour
To stay on for a brief period

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Answer: Option B. -> To defend someone

Question 2214. For each of the following sentences four alternatives are given. You are required to choose the correct meaning of the idiom or phrase given or underlined in the sentence. Pell-mell

Gaiety and excitement
None of these
In hurried disorder
Extremely worried

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Answer: Option C. -> In hurried disorder

Question 2215. For each of the following sentences four alternatives are given. You are required to choose the correct meaning of the idiom or phrase given or underlined in the sentence. To have one's heart in one's boots

To be deeply depressed
To keep a secret
To get angry
To be frightened

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Answer: Option A. -> To be deeply depressed

Question 2216. For each of the following sentences four alternatives are given. You are required to choose the correct meaning of the idiom or phrase given or underlined in the sentence. To put one on one's mettle

To discourage a person
To incite a person to fight
To ruin somebody
To rouse one to do one's best

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Answer: Option D. -> To rouse one to do one's best

Question 2217. For each of the following sentences four alternatives are given. You are required to choose the correct meaning of the idiom or phrase given or underlined in the sentence. To set the thames on fire

To burn something to ashes
To do something remarkable
To try to do the impossible
To fling ironical remarks

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Answer: Option C. -> To try to do the impossible

Question 2218. For each of the following sentences four alternatives are given. You are required to choose the correct meaning of the idiom or phrase given or underlined in the sentence. To strike one's colours

To surrender
To make a rude gesture
To work hard
To fight vigorously

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Answer: Option A. -> To surrender

Question 2219. For each of the following sentences four alternatives are given. You are required to choose the correct meaning of the idiom or phrase given or underlined in the sentence. To take a leaf out of somebody's book

To take him as a model
To conform to others standard
To follow the dictates of someone
To steal something valuable

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Answer: Option A. -> To take him as a model

Question 2220. For each of the following sentences four alternatives are given. You are required to choose the correct meaning of the idiom or phrase given or underlined in the sentence. To hold somebody to ransom