Direction.
Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/ phrase.
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
Correct Answer :
C. To support the role and view of another person
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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
In the teeth of
in the end
real cause
in the face of
to chase
To turn the tables :
To defeat
To oppose
To create chaos
To change the sorry scheme
To be above board .
To have a good height
To be honest in any business deal
Having no debts
To try to be beautiful
Lions share
look angrily
minor share
heart of the prey
major share
You will succeed if you follow my advice to the letter .
about writing letters
written in the letter
in every detail
very thoughtfully
To cry wolf
To listen eagerly
To give false alarm
To turn pale
To keep off starvation
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 turn over a new leaf :
To change completely ones course of action
To shift attention to new problems
To cover up ones faults by wearing new marks
To change the old habits and adopt new ones
To be in abeyance :
To be in trouble
Dual minded
In a fighting mood
Insuspense
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
Bed of roses
dull life
very soft bed
belong to
full of joys
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 give a rap on the knuckles :
To eulogise
To chatise
To condemn
To rebuke
fair and square
auhtorative
business like
honest
active
Harp on :
To comment
To criticise
To keeep on talking
To keep on insulting
A tall order :
A task difficult to perform
A bid problem
A royal summon
A big demand
To break the ice :
To start quarreling
To end the hostility
To start to conversation
To end up partnership
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
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 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 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
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 have brush with :
To start painting
To have good and pleasing terms
To be impressed
To have a slight encounter
Ins and Outs
full details
major share
no details
finally
A bakers dozen :
Twelve
Charity
Thirteen
Allowance
To be at ones fingers end :
To be hopeless
To be highly perplexed
To be completely conversant with
To count things
To speak daggers :
To abuse someone
To indulge in varacious talks
To speak to a person with hostility
None of these
To set the thames on fire :
To do something remarkable
To try to do the impossible
To burn something to ashes
To fling inonical remarks
At one's fingertips
None of above
To take revenge
Matter of shame
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