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MCQ on Idioms and Phrases


If you talking about a "tit for tat" situation, you are:

  • making someone angry
  • doing harm as done to you
  • rewarding people for the good done
  • taking advantage of someone
  • Correct Option: B  [ doing harm as done to you ]

    Remark: "tit for tat": is an equivalent given in return, retaliation in kind.

When the family in the next house packed off at midnight, I began to smell a rat.

  • to suspect a trick
  • to misunderstand
  • to smell a bad smell
  • to see hidden meaning
  • Correct Option: A  [ to suspect a trick ]

    Remark:

I cannot deal with a queer fish like him.

  • having too much critical habit
  • dishonest person
  • very mean person
  • eccentric and peculiar person
  • Correct Option: D  [ eccentric and peculiar person ]

    Remark: a queer fish: a person whose behaviour is strange or unusual.

His promotion is on the cards.

  • due
  • evident
  • certain
  • probable
  • Correct Option: C  [ certain ]

    Remark:

A close shave.

  • A narrow escape from danger
  • stubble
  • Very short hair
  • Hairless skin
  • Correct Option: A  [ A narrow escape from danger ]

    Remark:

His argument does not hold water.

  • to have effect
  • to influence
  • to check the flow of water
  • sound logical fact
  • Correct Option: D  [ sound logical fact ]

    Remark:

Thousands put on a daily fight to keep the wolf from the door.

  • avoid starvation
  • guard from pickpockets
  • ward off mosquitoes
  • keep oneself healthy
  • Correct Option: A  [ avoid starvation ]

    Remark:

I did not know that he was pulling my leg all the time.

  • befooling me
  • degrading me
  • defaming me
  • complimenting me
  • Correct Option: A  [ befooling me ]

    Remark:

To murder in "cold blood", it means to murder:

  • coolly
  • unfeelingly
  • thoughtlessly
  • deliberately
  • Correct Option: B  [ unfeelingly ]

    Remark:

A damp squib

  • rainy weather
  • a disappointing result
  • a skirt in a laundry
  • Great honour
  • Correct Option: B  [ a disappointing result ]

    Remark:

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