Direction.
Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/ phrase.
To drive home
To find one's roots
To return to place of rest
Back to original position
To emphasise
Correct Answer :
D. To emphasise
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To live fast :
To lead a life of dissipation
To accomplish a purpose
to do a task hurriedly
To use up ones income as fast as it comes in
To cry wolf.
To listen eagerly
To give false alarm
To turn pale
To keep off starvation
To pull strings :
To exert hidden influence
To tease someone
To speed up
To start something
Lions share
look angrily
minor share
heart of the prey
major share
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
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 drive home .
To find one's root
To return to place of rest
Back to original position
To emphasise
Where discipline is concerned I put my foot down .
take a firm stand
take a light stand
take a heavy stand
take a shaky stand
He is on the wrong side of seventy.
more than seventy years old
less than seventy years old
seventy years old
eighty years old
For this act of indifference he will be taken to task by the authority.
he will get an offical reprimand from the authority.
he will be rewarded by the authority.
he will tender his resignation to the authority.
he will be entrusted with an official job.
My sincere advice to my maidservant fell on stony ground .
was counter productive
had a strong impact
made on stubborn
had little success
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
He has all his ducks in a row; he is complacent.
has everything ready
is well organised
always scores a zero
never gets confused
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
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
They have no debts
To try to be beautiful
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
To set one's face against
To oppose with determination
To judge by appearence
To get out of difficulty
To look at one steadily
It is difficult to have a sensible discussion with her as she flies off at a tangent.
gets carried away
starts discussing something irrelevant
loses her temper easily
does not really understand anything
For some people, writing verse is as duck takes to water .
like taking the duck to water
like bursting out suddenly
like dropping the duck in the water
like easily and naturally speaking
We must work with all our might and main, otherwise we cannot succeed.
full force
complete trust
exceptional skill
full unity
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
Hobsons choice :
Feeling of insecurity
Accept or leave the other
Feeling of strength
Excellent choice
To change colour :
To change appearance
To shift allegiance to
To favour the wrong person
None of these
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
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
The mother always insists on keeping the house spick and span .
open
locked
safe
tid
The pros and cons :
For and aginst a thing
Foul and fair
Good and evil
Former and latter
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 have brush with :
To start painting
To have good and pleasing terms
To be impressed
To have a slight encounter