1000+ Idioms & Phrases MCQ for SBI Clerk [Solved]

1. To speak daggers :
A. To abuse someone
B. To indulge in varacious talks
C. To speak to a person with hostility
D. None of these
Answer : C

2. To cast pearls before a swine :
A. To spend recklessly
B. To spend a lot of money on the unkeep of domestic hogs
C. To waste monkey over trifles
D. To offer to a person a thing which he cannot appreciate
Answer : D

3. Bag and baggage
A. Without any belonging
B. All the clothing
C. With all one's belongings
D. Leave
Answer : C

4. To take people by storm :
A. To put people in utter surprise
B. To captivate them unexpectedly
C. To exploit peoples agitation
D. To bring out something sensational attracting peoples attention
Answer : B

5. My sincere advice to my maidservant fell on stony ground .
A. was counter productive
B. had a strong impact
C. made on stubborn
D. had little success
Answer : D

6. You need to have something up your sleeve if the present plan does not work.
A. have some honest means
B. have some hidden sources of money
C. have a secret pocket in the sleeve
D. have an alternative plan
Answer : D

7. The man changed colours when I questioned him on the allocation of funds.
A. turned pale
B. got numbed
C. turned happy
D. get motivated
Answer : A

8. Harp on :
A. To comment
B. To criticise
C. To keeep on talking
D. To keep on insulting
Answer : C

9. To bear the palm :
A. To win
B. To accept a challenge
C. To accept defeat
D. To endure something
Answer : A

10. To set the thames on fire :
A. To do something remarkable
B. To try to do the impossible
C. To burn something to ashes
D. To fling inonical remarks
Answer : B

11. To cry wolf .
A. To listen eagerly
B. To give false alarm
C. To turn pale
D. To keep off starvation
Answer : B

12. To mind ones Ps and Qs :
A. To be cautious
B. To be accurate and precise
C. To be careful of ones accounts
D. To be careful of ones personality
Answer : B

13. To turn the tables :
A. To defeat
B. To oppose
C. To create chaos
D. To change the sorry scheme
Answer : D

14. At one's wit's end
A. Clear Up
B. Perplexed
C. Explain
D. Enlighten
Answer : B

15. To split hours :
A. To sidetrack the issue
B. To quarrel over trifles
C. To indulge in over-refined arguments
D. To find faults with other
Answer : C

16. To hold somebody to ransom :
A. To keep captive and demand concession
B. To humiliate somebody
C. To offer bribe
D. To blackmail and extract money
Answer : A

17. To end in smoke
A. To make completely understand
B. To ruin oneself
C. To excite great applause
D. To overcome someone
Answer : B

18. To flog a dead horse :
A. To act in a foolish way
B. To waste ones efforts
C. To revive interest in an old subject
D. To revive old memories
Answer : B

19. To take with a grain of salt :
A. To take with some reservation
B. To take with total disbelief
C. To take whole heartedly
D. To take seriously
Answer : A

20. Bed of roses
A. dull life
B. very soft bed
C. belong to
D. full of joys
Answer : D

21. To drive home .
A. To find one's root
B. To return to place of rest
C. Back to original position
D. To emphasise
Answer : D

22. The convict claimed innocence and stood his ground in spite of the repeated accusations.
A. knelt
B. surrendered
C. kept standing
D. refused to yield
Answer : D

23. To bring ones eggs to a bad market :
A. To face on humiliating situation
B. To bring ones commodities to a market where there is no demand for them
C. To show ones talents before audience which is incapable of appreciating them
D. To fail in ones plans because one goes to the wrong people for help
Answer : D

24. To be above board
A. To have a good height
B. To be honest in any business deal
C. They have no debts
D. To try tobe beautiful
Answer : B

25. a tight corner
A. in a difficult situation
B. in a closed room
C. in a small field
D. in a meadow
Answer : A

26. To make clean breast of
A. To gain prominence
B. To praise oneself
C. To confess without of reserve
D. To destroy before it blooms
Answer : C

27. Where discipline is concerned I put my foot down .
A. take a firm stand
B. take a light stand
C. take a heavy stand
D. take a shaky stand
Answer : A

28. Above board
A. honest and straightforward
B. a dishonest person
C. boasting person
D. a man with arrogance
Answer : A

29. Once the case reached the court, the police washed their hands off it .
A. waited for a response to
B. claimed credit for
C. disassociated themselves from
D. seemed eager to continue
Answer : C

30. To live fast :
A. To lead a life of dissipation
B. To accomplish a purpose
C. to do a task hurriedly
D. To use up ones income as fast as it comes in
Answer : A

31. To give chapter and verse for a thing :
A. To produce the proof of something
B. To eulogize the qualities of a thing
C. To make publicity of a thing
D. To attach artificial value to a thing
Answer : A

32. To pick holes
A. To find some reason to quarrel
B. To destroy something
C. To criticise someone
D. To cut some part of an item
Answer : C

33. does not hold water
A. Cannot be belived
B. cannot be valued
C. does not fulfil the reqiurements
D. does not deserve appreciation
Answer : D

34. In the teeth of
A. in the end
B. real cause
C. in the face of
D. to chase
Answer : C

35. a white elephant
A. a proud possession
B. a rare article
C. useful mode of transport
D. costly or truoblesome possession
Answer : D

36. Hard-pressed :
A. Bewildered
B. Insulted
C. Hard discipline
D. In difficulties
Answer : D

37. She wanted to go hitch-hiking but her mother put her foot down and now she's going by bus.
A. took a firm stand
B. expressed her displeasure
C. scolded her badly
D. got irritated
Answer : A

38. A bakers dozen :
A. Twelve
B. Charity
C. Thirteen
D. Allowance
Answer : C

39. To oil the knocker :
A. To instigate a person to do a job
B. To do a work with increased pace
C. To tip the office-boy
D. To revive old enmity
Answer : C

40. It is difficult to have a sensible discussion with her as she flies off at a tangent.
A. gets carried away
B. starts discussing something irrelevant
C. loses her temper easily
D. does not really understand anything
Answer : B

41. To pull ones socks up :
A. To prepare
B. To try hard
C. To get ready
D. To depart
Answer : B

42. To have ones heart in ones boots :
A. To be deeply depressed
B. To be frightened
C. To get angry
D. To keep a secret
Answer : A

43. To drive home
A. To find one's roots
B. To return to place of rest
C. Back to original position
D. To emphasise
Answer : D

44. To cut the gordian knot :
A. To solve a difficult problem
B. To be victorious
C. To break ties with someone
D. To defeat to powerful person
Answer : A

45. He is on the wrong side of seventy.
A. more than seventy years old
B. less than seventy years old
C. seventy years old
D. eighty years old
Answer : A

46. To cool ones heels :
A. To rest for sometime
B. To give no importance to someone
C. To remain in a comfortable position
D. To be kept waiting for sometime
Answer : D

47. out and out
A. slightly
B. totally
C. simply
D. merely
Answer : B

48. At logger heads
A. In difficulty
B. to be at strife
C. None of above
D. very happy together
Answer : B

49. My sincere advice to my maidservant fell on stony ground.
A. was counter productive
B. had a strong impact
C. made on stubborn
D. had little success
Answer : D