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Question 2171. 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 oil the knocker

To tip the office-boy
To revive old enmity
To instigate a person to do a job
To do a work with increased pace

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Answer: Option A. -> To tip the office-boy

Question 2172. 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. Leave one to sink or swim

To be in a dilemma
To leave to one's fate
To put one in difficulty
Not to help one

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Answer: Option D. -> Not to help one

Question 2173. 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. A sop to cerberus

Money for compensation
Hush money
Bribery
Ransom to an enemy

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Answer: Option D. -> Ransom to an enemy

Question 2174. 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 show the white feather

To become polite
To show arrogance
To show signs of cowardice
To seek peace

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Answer: Option C. -> To show signs of cowardice

Question 2175. 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 show one's teeth

To be humble
To face difficulties
To adopt a threatening attitude
To ridicule

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Answer: Option C. -> To adopt a threatening attitude

Question 2176. 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 look down one's nose at

To show anger
To backbite
To insult in the presence of others
To regard with half-hidden displeasure or contempt

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Answer: Option D. -> To regard with half-hidden displeasure or contempt

Question 2177. 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 cut the cackle

To act in a friendly way
To humiliate
To annoy someone
To stop talking and start

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Answer: Option D. -> To stop talking and start

Question 2178. 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 rip up old sores

To censure someone in strong terms
To revive a quarrel which was almost forgotten
To preserve oneself from harm
To strain one's thoughts to the most

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Answer: Option B. -> To revive a quarrel which was almost forgotten

Question 2179. 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 leave no avenue unexplored

To try every source
To call in question
To roam about
To depend on

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Answer: Option A. -> To try every source

Question 2180. 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 pour oil in troubled water