In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/phrase.
Options:
1 ) Avoid starvation
2 ) Crack the deal
3 ) Entry prohibited
4 ) Have a pleasant tour
Correct Answer: Avoid starvation
Teething problems
Options:
1 ) Oral problems
2 ) Problems at the start of a new project
3 ) Problems for quite a long time in adjusting in the new place
4 ) Problem of having good dentist
Correct Answer: Problems at the start of a new project
Mealy-mouthed
Options:
1 ) Ill-tempered
2 ) Soft-spoken
3 ) Enthusiastic
4 ) Depressed
Correct Answer: Soft-spoken
By fits and starts
Options:
1 ) Occasionally
2 ) Totally
3 ) Finally
4 ) Irregularly
Correct Answer: Irregularly
Rat race
Options:
1 ) Make others fight for scraps and get sadistic pleasure out of it
2 ) Be an oppressive boss and treat employees like animals
3 ) A way of life in which people are caught up in a fiercely competitive struggle for wealth or power
4 ) Play games with the lives of other people and see them run aimlesly
Correct Answer: A way of life in which people are caught up in a fiercely competitive struggle for wealth or power
Spin one's wheels
Options:
1 ) Keep bragging about oneself
2 ) Try your luck
3 ) Expel much effort for little or no gain
4 ) Start a long journey
Correct Answer: Expel much effort for little or no gain
Put one's foot down
Options:
1 ) Give up easily without a fight
2 ) Learn to dance inspite of being clumsy
3 ) Adopt a firm policy when faced with opposition or disobedience
4 ) Take the first step of a very long difficult journey
Correct Answer: Adopt a firm policy when faced with opposition or disobedience
Whistle in the dark
Options:
1 ) Pretend to be unafraid
2 ) A ray of hope in the worst of times
3 ) See a ghost while dreaming
4 ) Be blind and fall into a trap
Correct Answer: Pretend to be unafraid
The alpha and the omega
Options:
1) Happy and sad
2) The beginning and the end
3) The love and the hatred
4) Truth and dare
Correct Answer: The beginning and the end
Throw up the sponge
Options:
1) To attack
2) To laugh at someone
3) To surrender
4) To talk loudly
Correct Answer: To surrender
To put a spoke in one's wheel
Options:
1 ) To be advantageous at the time of difficulty
2 ) To maintain under all circumstances
3 ) To blame the other party
4 ) To put a difficulty in the way of progress
Correct Answer: To put a difficulty in the way of progress
At loggerheads
Options:
1 ) To suffer
2 ) In conflict with someone
3 ) To face tough competition
4 ) To be in do or die situation
Correct Answer: In conflict with someone
A wild goose chase
Options:
1 ) Fruitful search
2 ) Timely search
3 ) Useless search
4 ) Wrong decision
Correct Answer: Useless search
A moot point
Options:
1 ) Agreeable
2 ) Disputed
3 ) Unclear
4 ) Unknown
Correct Answer: Disputed
Spick and Span
Options:
1 ) High and low
2 ) Dark and light
3 ) Neat and clean
4 ) Happy and sad
Correct Answer: Neat and clean
To draw the longbow
Options:
1 ) To nullify
2 ) To exaggerate
3 ) To underrate
4 ) To demarcate
Correct Answer: To exaggerate
All agog
Options:
1) Avoid
2) Contentment
3) Amazed
4) Unsystematically
Correct Answer: Amazed
Not to mince matters
Options:
1) To be at ease
2) To not confuse others
3) To not interfere in others affairs
4) To speak out politely
Correct Answer: To speak out politely
Kick the bucket
Options:
1 ) Loose temper
2 ) To delay a little longer
3 ) To die
4 ) To meet with an accident
Correct Answer: To die
An axe to grind
Options:
1 ) To act bravely
2 ) To act like a fool
3 ) To have a selfish motive
4 ) To take risk
Correct Answer: To have a selfish motive
To go through fire and water
Option:
1) To scold someone
2) To experience many danger in order to achieve something
3) To act without restraints
4) Something which hurts
Correct Answer: To act without restraints
Will -o- the wisp
Option:
1) Something that is impossible to get or achieve
2) To keep off an unwanted and undesirable person.
3) To spend recklessly.
4) Accept or leave the offer.
Correct Answer: Something that is impossible to get or achieve
Chicken-hearted
Options:
1) Coward
2) Short tempered
3) Composed
4) Bold
Correct Answer: Coward
Red letter day
Options:
1) Starting day
2) Holiday
3) Significant day
4) Ending day
Correct Answer: Significant day
Ended in a fiasco
Options:
1 ) A complete failure
2 ) A successful event
3 ) Changed one completely
4 ) Twisted around
Correct answer: A complete failure
Sow wild oats
Options:
1 ) To make someone fool
2 ) To make space to red
3 ) To take revenge
4 ) To waste time by doing foolish things
Correct Answer: To waste time by doing foolish things
Live from hand to mouth
Options:
1 ) Filthy rich people
2 ) To be dependent on others
3 ) To have enough money to live on and nothing extra
4 ) Living in miserable conditions.
Correct Answer: To have enough money to live on and nothing extra
To face the music
Options:
1 ) To bear the consequences
2 ) To disparage someone
3 ) To be hard of hearing
4 ) To enjoy a musical concert
Correct Answer: To bear the consequences
Pillar to post
Options:
1) Main support of an object
2) One place to another
3) To be reluctant
4) To incite others
Correct Answer: One place to another
Hobson's choice
Options:
1) To choose first in row
2) To make a careful choice
3) No real choice at all
4) To seek all favourable alternatives to choose from
Correct Answer: No real choice at all
Adam's ale
Option:
1) Gift
2) Food
3) Water
4) Belongings
Correct Answer: Water
At one's wits end
Option:
1) A man of ability
2) At the last moment
3) To get puzzled
4) Undecided controversy
Correct Answer: To get puzzled
To steal a march
Options:
1 ) To act in a foolish way
2 ) To break something
3 ) To outshine
4 ) To see a hidden meaning
Correct nswer: To outshine
In a iff
Options:
1 ) Fail to win appreciation
2 ) In an appropriate manner
3 ) Something that is done very quickly
4 ) To fall in love
Correct answer: Something that is done very quickly
Herculean task
Options:
1 ) Important task
2 ) Motivating
3 ) Optional to do
4 ) Very difficult task
Correct Answer: Very difficult task
On tenterhooks
Options:
1 ) Flattery
2 ) In a disorganized manner
3 ) In anxious suspense
4 ) Speak quickly
Correct Answer: In anxious suspense
The thin end of the wedge
Options:
1 ) In strict vigilance
2 ) Start of harmful development
3 ) Be aware of the trick
4 ) Not a worth possession
Correct answer: Start of harmful development
To accept the gauntlet
Options:
1 To accept challenge
2 To accept defeat
3 To accept what is written in fate
4 To e ale to grasp the hidden meaning
Correct answer: To accept challenge
