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IDIOMS AND PHRASES (BACKUP) MCQs

Idioms & Phrases

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Question 61. Choose The Exact Meaning Of The Idioms/phrases.
To split hours
  1.    To sidetrack the issue
  2.    T quarrel over trifles
  3.    To indulge in over-refined arguments
  4.    To find faults with others
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option C. -> To indulge in over-refined arguments
Question 62. Choose The Exact Meaning Of The Idioms/phrases.
To play fast and loose
  1.    To trust others
  2.    To be undependable
  3.    To cheat people
  4.    To hurt somebody's feelings
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option B. -> To be undependable
Question 63. Choose The Exact Meaning Of The Idioms/phrases.
A snake in the grass
  1.    Secret or hidden enemy
  2.    Unforeseen happening
  3.    Unrecognisable danger
  4.    Irreliable person
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option C. -> Unrecognisable danger
Question 64. Choose The Exact Meaning Of The Idioms/phrases.
To have an easy time of it
  1.    To take the world lightly
  2.    To indulge in frivolities
  3.    To squander away resources
  4.    To live in quiet and comfort
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option D. -> To live in quiet and comfort
Question 65. Choose The Exact Meaning Of The Idioms/phrases.
A chip off the old block
  1.    A piece of wood
  2.    An old friend
  3.    Characteristics of one's ancestors
  4.    A good bargain
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option C. -> Characteristics of one's ancestors
Question 66. Choose The Exact Meaning Of The Idioms/phrases.
To hit below the belt
  1.    To work confidentially
  2.    To harm unfairly
  3.    To strike at the exact position
  4.    To hit the correct mark
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option B. -> To harm unfairly
Question 67. Choose The Exact Meaning Of The Idioms/phrases.
To wash one's dirty linen in public
  1.    To criticise one's nature in public
  2.    To quarrel in the open
  3.    To do some ugly work in public
  4.    To discuss dirty and scandalous matters of personal nature in the presence of strangers
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option D. -> To discuss dirty and scandalous matters of personal nature in the presence of strangers
Question 68. Choose The Exact Meaning Of The Idioms/phrases.
To wrangle over an ass's shadow
  1.    To act in a foolish way
  2.    To quarrel over trifles
  3.    To waste time on petty things
  4.    To do something funny
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option B. -> To quarrel over trifles
Question 69. Choose The Exact Meaning Of The Idioms/phrases.
To give up the ghost
  1.    To suffer
  2.    To fight evil forces
  3.    To die
  4.    To become rational
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option C. -> To die
Question 70. Choose The Exact Meaning Of The Idioms/phrases.
To stand to one's guns
  1.    To keep the guns close to oneself even amid danger
  2.    To persevere when hardships press
  3.    To maintain dignified and unbending attitude
  4.    To maintain one's position
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option B. -> To persevere when hardships press

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