Directions (1-15): In the following question, out of the four alternatives select the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/phrase.
Q1. Dress down
(a) to apply bandage on wound
(b) to give a wise advice
(c) to scold someone
(d) to copy someone else
Q2. Cut short
(a) run away
(b) praise
(c) interrupt
(d) slice into small pieces
Q3. Vexed question
(a) controversial
(b) surprising
(c) regulatory
(d) anonymity
Q4. Stick one’s neck out
(a) to take a risk
(b) to give a shock
(c) to move strangely
(d) to give a favor
Q5. Bear the palm
(a) to bear pain
(b) to win
(c) to lose the game
(d) to control anger
Q6. Wait on hand and foot
(a) do everything for someone
(b) too lazy to move your hand and foot
(c) to fall between two great difficulties
(d) to set something in disorder
Q7. To set at naught
(a) to start a project
(b) to disregard
(c) to admire
(d) to agree
Q8. In the black
(a) financially solvent
(b) in extreme difficulty
(c) in the absence of money
(d) to be in the dark
Q9. Touch-and-go
(a) too gloomy
(b) very uncertain
(c) happiness for a short time
(d) a wasted day
Q10. Out at the elbows
(a) lacking money
(b) lacking intelligence
(c) talented
(d) to go to the woods
Q11. Airs and Graces
(a) good from bad
(b) a pretentious manner
(c) lose control
(d) free oneself from
Q12. A shot in the arm
(a) a boost or act of encouragement
(b) to criticize or punish severely
(c) to reply in a harsh way
(d) to destroy something completely
Q13. Spot on
(a) to take one’s revenge
(b) accurately
(c) playing bad
(d) full of error
Q14. Cut of one’s jib
(a) personal appearance
(b) the salary paid to someone in his job
(c) to be dismissed from a job
(d) out of order
Q15. In the air
(a) to give up
(b) prevalent
(c) to fight over something
(d) to leave everything on one’s fate
SOLUTIONS
1.C
2.C
3.A
4.A
5.B
6.A
7.B
8.A
9.B
10.A
11.B
12.A
13.B
14.A
15.B
