Direction.
Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/ phrase.
To leave someone in the lurch
To come to compromise with someone
Constant source of annoyance to someone
To put someone at ease
To desert someone in his difficulties
Correct Answer :
D. To desert someone in his difficulties
Related Questions
To be at ones fingers end :
To be hopeless
To be highly perplexed
To be completely conversant with
To count things
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 oil the knocker :
To instigate a person to do a job
To do a work with increased pace
To tip the office-boy
To revive old enmity
To be above board .
To have a good height
To be honest in any business deal
Having no debts
To try to be beautiful
My sincere advice to my maidservant fell on stony ground.
was counter productive
had a strong impact
made on stubborn
had little success
We must work with all our might and main, otherwise we cannot succeed.
full force
complete trust
exceptional skill
full unity
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
a tight corner
in a difficult situation
in a closed room
in a small field
in a meadow
To change colour :
To change appearance
To shift allegiance to
To favour the wrong person
None of these
All agog :
Everybody
All ready
Restless
Almighty
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
To talk through ones hat :
To speak fluently
To talk nonsense
To talk wisdom
To speak at random
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 drink like a fish :
To drink little
To drink alone
To be a drunkard
To drink in the company of others
played havoc
caused destruciton
caused disease
caused hardship
caused floods
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 speak daggers :
To abuse someone
To indulge in varacious talks
To speak to a person with hostility
None of these
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 pour oil in troubled water :
To forment trouble
To add to the trouble
To instigate
To calm a quarrel with sooting words
We must work with all our might and main, otherwise we cannot succeed.
full force
complete trust
exceptional skill
full unity
The pros and cons :
For and aginst a thing
Foul and fair
Good and evil
Former and latter
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
To beg the question
To refer to
To take for granted
To raise objections
To be discussed
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
Spick and span :
Neat and clean
Outspoken
A ready-made thing
Garrulous
To hit the jackpot :
To gamble
To get an unexpected victory
To be wealthy
To make money unexpectedly
To cry wolf
To listen eagerly
To give false alarm
To turn pale
To keep off starvation
To drive home
To find one's roots
To return to place of rest
Back to original position
To emphasise
He is on the wrong side of seventy .
more than seventy years old
less than seventy years old
seventy years old
eighty years old
does not hold water
Cannot be belived
cannot be valued
does not fulfil the reqiurements
does not deserve appreciation