Direction.
Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom / phrase.
Be in the mire :
Be under dept
Be in love
Be in difficulties
Be uneasy
Correct Answer :
C. Be in difficulties
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He is on the wrong side of seventy.
more than seventy years old
less than seventy years old
seventy years old
eighty years old
A critic's work is to read between the lines .
to comprehend the meaning
to appreciate the inner beauty
to understand the inner meaning
to read carefully
fair and square
auhtorative
business like
honest
active
The students found it hard to go at equal speed with the professor.
get away from
put up with
keep up with
race ag
We must work with all our might and main, otherwise we cannot succeed.
full force
complete trust
exceptional skill
full unity
Once the case reached the court, the police washed their hands off it.
waited for a response to
claimed credit for
disassociated themselves from
seemed eager to continue
To cast pearls before a swine :
To offer some a thing which he cannot appreciate
To bring something good before the eyes of a greedy person
To spend racklessly on a useless fellow
To indulge in fruitless endeavours
He has all his ducks in a row ; he is complacent.
has everything ready
is well organised
always scores a zero
never gets confused
He made away with ten thousand rupees in the course of three months.
earned
ran away with
squandered
saved
To change colour :
To change appearance
To shift allegiance to
To favour the wrong person
None of these
A fools errand :
A blunder
An impossible task
A useless undertaking
None of these
Bed of roses
dull life
very soft bed
belong to
full of joys
To turn the tables :
To defeat
To oppose
To create chaos
To change the sorry scheme
To set the people by ears :
To box the people
To insult and disgrace the people
To punish heavily
To excite people to a quarrel
To pour oil in troubled water :
To forment trouble
To add to the trouble
To instigate
To calm a quarrel with sooting words
We cannot depend on him for this assignment as it needs careful handling and he is like a bull in a china shop .
a felicitous person
a clumsy person
a tactful person
a no-nonsense person
An apple of discord
cause of happiness
cause of quarrel
cause of wealth
cause of illness
out and out
slightly
totally
simply
merely
To take the bull by the horns :
To punish a person severly for his arrogance
To grapple courageously with difficulty that lies in our way
To handle it by fierce attack
To bypass the legal process and take action according to ones own whims
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
Lions share
look angrily
minor share
heart of the prey
major share
Ins and Outs
full details
major share
no details
finally
In the teeth of
in the end
real cause
in the face of
to chase
At one's fingertips
None of above
To take revenge
Matter of shame
Complete knowledge
At daggers drawn
at enmity
to be puzzled
at friendship
real cause
A man of straw
A man of no substance
A very active person
A worthy fellow
An unreasonable 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
To catch a tartar
To trap wanted criminal with great difficulty
To catch a dangerous person
To meet with disaster
To deal with a person who is more than one's match
We had (had) better batten down the hatches . The weather is unpredictable.
stay in-door
prepare for a difficult situation
go somewhere safe
face the obstacles
The sailors nailed their colours to their mast.
put up a colourful mast
refused to climb down
took over the ship
decided to abandon the ship