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IDIOMS AND PHRASES (BACKUP) MCQs

Idioms & Phrases

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Question 41. Choose The Exact Meaning Of The Idioms/phrases.
To be at daggers drawn
  1.    To be frightened
  2.    To be ready to face danger
  3.    To threaten one
  4.    To be bitter enemy
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option D. -> To be bitter enemy
Question 42. Choose The Exact Meaning Of The Idioms/phrases.
To get into hot waters
  1.    To be impatient
  2.    To suffer a huge financial loss
  3.    To get into trouble
  4.    To be in a confused state of mind
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option C. -> To get into trouble
Question 43. Choose The Exact Meaning Of The Idioms/phrases.
A fair crack of the whip
  1.    Severe punishment
  2.    A good check
  3.    A period of importance
  4.    Failure of administration
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option C. -> A period of importance
Question 44. Choose The Exact Meaning Of The Idioms/phrases.
To take with a grain of salt
  1.    To take with some reservation
  2.    To take with total disbelief
  3.    To take wholeheartedly
  4.    To take seriously
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option A. -> To take with some reservation
Question 45. Choose The Exact Meaning Of The Idioms/phrases.
To snap one's fingers
  1.    To speak abruptly
  2.    To accept immediately
  3.    To grasp eagerly
  4.    To become contemptuous of
  5.    To be anxious
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option D. -> To become contemptuous of
Question 46. Choose The Exact Meaning Of The Idioms/phrases.
To throw down the glove
  1.    To resort to wrong tactics
  2.    To give a challenge
  3.    To accept defeat
  4.    To reject the prize
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option B. -> To give a challenge
Question 47. Choose The Exact Meaning Of The Idioms/phrases.
To catch somebody on the hop
  1.    To give someone a surprise
  2.    To catch somebody off guard
  3.    To stand in the way of someone
  4.    To catch somebody suddenly
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option B. -> To catch somebody off guard
Question 48. Choose The Exact Meaning Of The Idioms/phrases.
To turn up one's nose at a thing
  1.    To show eagerness to have something
  2.    To show indifference
  3.    To treat it with contemptuous dislike or disgust
  4.    To start a grapple with it
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option C. -> To treat it with contemptuous dislike or disgust
Question 49. Choose The Exact Meaning Of The Idioms/phrases.
Will o' the wisp
  1.    Anything which eludes or deceives
  2.    To act in a childish way
  3.    To act in a foolish way
  4.    To have desires unbacked by efforts
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option A. -> Anything which eludes or deceives
Question 50. Choose The Exact Meaning Of The Idioms/phrases.
A pipe dream
  1.    A pleasant dream
  2.    A bad dream
  3.    An impracticable plan
  4.    A foolish idea
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option C. -> An impracticable plan

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