Direction.
Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/ phrase.
To mind ones Ps and Qs :
To be cautious
To be accurate and precise
To be careful of ones accounts
To be careful of ones personality
Correct Answer :
B. To be accurate and precise
Related Questions
Hard-pressed :
Bewildered
Insulted
Hard discipline
In difficulties
To bear the palm :
To win
To accept a challenge
To accept defeat
To endure something
A tall order :
A task difficult to perform
A bid problem
A royal summon
A big demand
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 pick holes
To find some reason to quarrel
To destroy something
To criticise someone
To cut some part of an item
To ride hell for Leather :
To ride with furious speed
To adopt flase means to succeed
To work hard for a small accomplishment
To earn money by all means
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
With great difficulty, he was able to carve out a niche for himself.
became a sculptor
did the best he could do
destroyed his career
developed a specific position for himself
To hold somebody to ransom :
To keep captive and demand concession
To humiliate somebody
To offer bribe
To blackmail and extract money
To give/get the bird :
To get the awaited
To have good luck
To send away
To get the impossible
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
To wrangle over an asss shadow :
To act in a foolish way
To do something funny
To quarrel over trifles
To quarrel over the possession of an ass
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
Adolescence is a period of halcyon days.
hard days
of mental pressure
happy days
days of preparation
To be old as the hills :
To be very ancient
To be wise tand learned
To be old but foolish
Not being worth the age
At logger heads
In difficulty
to be at strife
None of above
very happy together
At one's wit's end
Clear Up
Perplexed
Explain
Enlighten
To cry wolf .
To listen eagerly
To give false alarm
To turn pale
To keep off starvation
He made away with ten thousand rupees in the course of three months.
earned
ran away with
squandered
saved
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
out and out
slightly
totally
simply
merely
To give a rap on the knuckles :
To eulogise
To chatise
To condemn
To rebuke
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 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
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
You need to have something up your sleeve if the present plan does not work.
have some honest means
have some hidden sources of money
have a secret pocket in the sleeve
have an alternative plan
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 pour oil in troubled water :
To forment trouble
To add to the trouble
To instigate
To calm a quarrel with sooting words
An apple of discord
cause of happiness
cause of quarrel
cause of wealth
cause of illness
To drink like a fish :
To drink little
To drink alone
To be a drunkard
To drink in the company of others