Direction.
In the following questions, four alternatives are given for the Idiom/Phrase printed in bold in the sentence. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the Idiom/ Phrase.
He made my day by telling me how important I was to him.
gave me great pleasure
displeased me
spoiled my day
made me resentful
Correct Answer :
A. gave me great pleasure
Related Questions
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
To play second fiddle
To be happy, cheerful and healthy
To reduce importance of one's senior
To support the role and view of another person
To do back seat driving
To be in abeyance :
To be in trouble
Dual minded
In a fighting mood
Insuspense
She wanted to go hitch-hiking but her mother put her foot down and now she's going by bus.
took a firm stand
expressed her displeasure
scolded her badly
got irritated
To give a false colouring :
To misrepresent
To submit the false report
To be dishonest
To conceal the facts
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
By leaps and bounds
aimlessly
very fast
very slow
in details
To cry wolf.
To listen eagerly
To give false alarm
To turn pale
To keep off starvation
At dagger's drawn
to be very friendly
to have bitter enmity
to be very familiar
to be unknown
To drive home.
To find ones root
To return to place of rest
Back to original position
To emphasise
played havoc
caused destruciton
caused disease
caused hardship
caused floods
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 have brush with :
To start painting
To have good and pleasing terms
To be impressed
To have a slight encounter
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 give chapter and verse for a thing :
To produce the proof of something
To eulogize the qualities of a thing
To make publicity of a thing
To attach artificial value to a thing
A black sheep
An unlucky person
A lucky person
An ugly person
None of these
To drive home
To find one's roots
To return to place of rest
Back to original position
To emphasise
At logger heads
In difficulty
to be at strife
None of above
very happy together
To give a rap on the knuckles :
To eulogise
To chatise
To condemn
To rebuke
does not hold water
Cannot be belived
cannot be valued
does not fulfil the reqiurements
does not deserve appreciation
To hold somebody to ransom :
To keep captive and demand concession
To humiliate somebody
To offer bribe
To blackmail and extract money
To end in smoke
To make completely understand
To ruin oneself
To excite great applause
To overcome someone
To take umbrage :
To feel depressed
To be offended
To be satisfied
To be pleased
Swan-song :
Music as sweet as a song of birds
A melodious song in praise of someone
Praise of a woman by her lover
Last work of a poet or musician before death
a tight corner
in a difficult situation
in a closed room
in a small field
in a meadow
At arm's length
Insult
Length of arm
At a distance
Very near
In the teeth of
in the end
real cause
in the face of
to chase
To wrangle over an asss shadow :
To act in a foolish way
To quarrel over trifles
To waste time on petty things
To do something funny
A green horn :
An envious lady
A trainee
An inexperienced man
A soft-hearted man
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