Direction.
Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/ phrase.
A bull in a china shop :
A person who is very ugly but loves the beautiful things of life
A person who takes a sadistic delight in harming innocient people
A person who becomes too excited where no excitment is warranted
A person who is rought and clumsy where skill and care are required
Correct Answer :
D. A person who is rought and clumsy where skill and care are required
Related Questions
To mind ones Ps and Qs :
To be cautious
To be accurate and precise
To be careful of ones accounts
To be careful of ones personality
To pull ones socks up :
To prepare
To try hard
To get ready
To depart
To pick holes
To find some reason to quarrel
To destroy something
To criticise someone
To cut some part of an item
To end in smoke
To make completely understand
To ruin oneself
To excite great applause
To overcome someone
out and out
slightly
totally
simply
merely
a tight corner
in a difficult situation
in a closed room
in a small field
in a meadow
To cry wolf.
To listen eagerly
To give false alarm
To turn pale
To keep off starvation
To turn over a new leaf :
To change completely ones course of action
To shift attention to new problems
To cover up ones faults by wearing new marks
To change the old habits and adopt new ones
You will succeed if you follow my advice to the letter .
about writing letters
written in the letter
in every detail
very thoughtfully
no love lost between
forming a group
have a good understanding
not on good terms
stop loving
He made away with ten thousand rupees in the course of three months.
earned
ran away with
squandered
saved
The pros and cons :
For and aginst a thing
Foul and fair
Good and evil
Former and latter
A black sheep
An unlucky person
A lucky person
An ugly person
None of these
To cut the gordian knot :
To solve a difficult problem
To be victorious
To break ties with someone
To defeat to powerful person
To take the wind out of anothers sails :
To manouevre ot mislead another on the high seas
To cause harm to another
To defeat the motives of another
To anticipate another and to gain advantage over him
A tall order :
A task difficult to perform
A bid problem
A royal summon
A big demand
To drink like a fish :
To drink little
To drink alone
To be a drunkard
To drink in the company of others
You need to have something up your sleeve if the present plan does not work.
have some honest means
have some hidden sources of money
have a secret pocket in the sleeve
have an alternative plan
With great difficulty, he was able to carve out a niche for himself.
became a sculptor
did the best he could do
destroyed his career
developed a specific position for himself
To pour oil in troubled water :
To forment trouble
To add to the trouble
To instigate
To calm a quarrel with sooting words
To be above board .
To have a good height
To be honest in any business deal
Having no debts
To try to be beautiful
At a loss
at a relation loss
at a business loss
none of above
to be unable to decide
To take people by storm :
To put people in utter surprise
To captivate them unexpectedly
To exploit peoples agitation
To bring out something sensational attracting peoples attention
The mother always insists on keeping the house spick and span .
open
locked
safe
tid
fair and square
auhtorative
business like
honest
active
To fight to the bitter end :
To fight with poison-tipped arrows
To fight to the last paint of enemy position
To die fighting
To carry on a contest regardless of consequences
At one's wit's end
Clear Up
Perplexed
Explain
Enlighten
To let off steam , my friend started murmuring.
to release his tension
to show his anger
to show his approval
to show his disple
To cast pearls before a swine :
To spend recklessly
To spend a lot of money on the unkeep of domestic hogs
To waste monkey over trifles
To offer to a person a thing which he cannot appreciate
Despite his initial arrogance he had to eat humble pie .
he had to yield under pressure
he maintained composure
he failed to protest eventually
he accepted the food oflfered