Direction.
Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/ phrase.
Hard-pressed :
Bewildered
Insulted
Hard discipline
In difficulties
Correct Answer :
D. In difficulties
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At logger heads
In difficulty
to be at strife
None of above
very happy together
To read between the lines :
To concentrate
To read carefully
To suspect
To grasp the hidden meaning
To be above board .
To have a good height
To be honest in any business deal
Having no debts
To try to be beautiful
To set one's face against
To oppose with determination
To judge by appearence
To get out of difficulty
To look at one steadily
To beg the question
To refer to
To take for granted
To raise objections
To be discussed
Will o the wisp :
Anything which eludes or deceives
To act in a childish way
To act in a foolish way
To have desires unbacked by efforts
The new manager ruled the roost to every one.
exercised authority
rushed through work
got paid very handsomely
created good impression
To be in abeyance :
To be in trouble
Dual minded
In a fighting mood
Insuspense
To be above board
To have a good height
To be honest in any business deal
They have no debts
To try to be beautiful
To break the ice :
To start quarreling
To end the hostility
To start to conversation
To end up partnership
To split hours :
To sidetrack the issue
To quarrel over trifles
To indulge in over-refined arguments
To find faults with other
We must work with all our might and main, otherwise we cannot succeed.
full force
complete trust
exceptional skill
full unity
All in all
Every person
Call all at once
Most important
Particular thing same in all
To cry wolf.
To listen eagerly
To give false alarm
To turn pale
To keep off starvation
To hit the nail right on the head
To do the right thing
To destroy one's reputation
To announce one's fixed views
To teach someone a lesson
He is on the wrong side of seventy.
more than seventy years old
less than seventy years old
seventy years old
eighty years old
To save ones face :
To hide oneself
To oppose
To avade disgrace
To say plainly
By leaps and bounds
aimlessly
very fast
very slow
in details
To cool ones heels :
To rest for sometime
To give no importance to someone
To remain in a comfortable position
To be kept waiting for sometime
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
The students found it hard to go at equal speed with the professor.
get away from
put up with
keep up with
race against
In the teeth of
in the end
real cause
in the face of
to chase
To smell a rat
To see signs of plague epidemic
To get bad small of a bad dead rat
To suspect foul dealings
To be in a bad mood
To put one's hand to plough
To take up agricultural farming
To take a difficult task
To get entangled into unnecessary things
Take interest in technical work
A black sheep
An unlucky person
A lucky person
An ugly person
None of these
To take umbrage :
To feel depressed
To be offended
To be satisfied
To be pleased
Adolescence is a period of halcyon days .
hard days
of mental pressure
happy days
days of preparation
To have an axe to grind.
a private end to serve
to fail to arouse interest
to have no result
to work for both sides
To worship the rising sun :
To honour a man who is coming into office
To honour to promising people
To indulge in flattery
To welcome the coming events
To play fast and loose :
To beguile others
To be winning sometimes and losing at other times
To play with someones feeling
To play tricks