Directions (1-15): In the following questions, out of the four alternatives select the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/phrase.
Q1. A dime’s worth
Significant amount
An insignificant amount
A heavy amount
A reliable amount
Q2. A cold piece of work
A person dismissed from employment
A person who lacks skills of a certain piece of work
An emotionless person
A person who is difficult to deal with
Q3. Use one’s loaf
To use a trick to deceive others easily
To use one's own intelligence and intellectual ability
To bring one’s secret out to surprise everyone
To make use of a relative’s property to escape the financial crises
Q4. Pipe Down
Stop making efforts to win
Stop talking
Stop eating
Stop walking
Q5. Bring sand to the beach
To do or undertake something redundant, pointless or futile
To avoid someone in disdain
To try very hard to please someone in authority
To go out on vacations after a long time
Q6. To put one on one’s mettle
To ruin somebody
To discourage a person
To make almost any sacrifice
To rouse one to do one’s best
Q7. To leave no avenue unexplored
To call in question
To try every source
To roam about
To make contact with eminent people
Q8. To carry off the bell
To gain the first place
To call others for help
To steal all wealth and flee
To make troubles for oneself
Q9. Look over one’s shoulder
Watch for danger or threats to oneself
To ignore a person’s request
To be obsessed with one’s own semblance
To take attention or credit away from someone else
Q10. Hand over fist
To be dexterous
To do something that prevents an activity from continuing
To announce your intention of entering a competition
At a very fast pace
Q11. Make a pitch
Pay attention
Try to persuade people to do something
Regardless of
Underline
Q12. To give currency
To bestow importance
To misinterpret
To make publicly known
To originate
Q13. Mean business
Be extremely expensive
A mean way to achieve success
To be very serious and determined
To invest money in a big venture
Q14. A bear garden
A place full of noise and quarrels
A place full of trees bearing fruits
A pleasant place
A place full of bees
Q15. Itching palm
To have a skin disease
Habit of taking bribe
Habit of exercising daily
To disagree
SOLUTIONS
1.B
2.D
3.B
4.B
5.A
6.D
7.B
8.A
9.A
10.D
11.B
12.C
13.C
14.A
15.A
