IDIOM QUIZ

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. The teacher warned the student once for all that no mischief shall be tolerated in the class.

finally

angrily

coldly

authoritatively

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Why do you wish to tread on the toes?

To give offence to them

To follow them grudgingly

To treat them indifferently

To be kicked by them

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You cannot have your cake and eat it too.

Have it both ways

Enjoy forever

Absolve yourself of guilt

Run away from responsibility

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Some people now wonder whether we just pay lip service or genuinely subscribe to democracy.

show only outward respect

remain indifferent

attach no value

pay oral tribute

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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. When he met me at the street corner, he cut me dead.

showered filthy abuses on me

surprised me by his arrogance

made an assault on me

deliberately insulted me by ignoring me

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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. The sworn enemies have decided to bury the hatchet.

to avoid each other

to become partners

to make peace

to help each other

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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. She was in a brown study and did not notice my entrance.

sleep

fear

reverie

dream

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The top chambers of human heart are called

Septum

Ventricle

Atrium

Aorta

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To carry the coal to Newcastle

To work hard

To finish a job

To do menial jobs

To do unnecessary things

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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. His boss was always breathing down his neck.

watching all his actions closely

shouting loudly at him

abusing and ill-treating him

giving him strenuous work

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