Direction.
Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom / phrase.
To strike ones colours :
To fight vigorously
To work hard
To surrender
To make a rude gesture
Correct Answer :
C. To surrender
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To flog a dead horse :
To act in a foolish way
To waste ones efforts
To revive interest in an old subject
To revive old memories
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
By the rule of thumb :
By the use of force
By the use of trickery
By cheating and deception
By practical experience which is rather rough
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 take the bull by the horns :
To punish a person severly for his arrogance
To grapple courageously with difficulty that lies in our way
To handle it by fierce attack
To bypass the legal process and take action according to ones own whims
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 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
Above board
honest and straightforward
a dishonest person
boasting person
a man with arrogance
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 above board .
To have a good height
To be honest in any business deal
Having no debts
To try to be beautiful
Bed of roses
dull life
very soft bed
belong to
full of joys
To be at ones fingers end :
To be hopeless
To be highly perplexed
To be completely conversant with
To count things
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
Hobsons choice :
Feeling of insecurity
Accept or leave the other
Feeling of strength
Excellent choice
To hold somebody to ransom :
To keep captive and demand concession
To humiliate somebody
To offer bribe
To blackmail and extract money
The students found it hard to go at equal speed with the professor.
get away from
put up with
keep up with
race ag
At arm's length
Insult
Length of arm
At a distance
Very near
Adolescence is a period of halcyon days.
hard days
of mental pressure
happy days
days of preparation
To hit the nail right on the head
To do the right thing
To destroy one's reputation
To announce one's fixed views
To teach someone a lesson
To bring ones eggs to a bad market :
To face on humiliating situation
To bring ones commodities to a market where there is no demand for them
To show ones talents before audience which is incapable of appreciating them
To fail in ones plans because one goes to the wrong people for help
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
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
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 worship the rising sun :
To honour a man who is coming into office
To honour to promising people
To indulge in flattery
To welcome the coming events
To drive home.
To find ones root
To return to place of rest
Back to original position
To emphasise
out and out
slightly
totally
simply
merely
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 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 make clean breast of
To gain prominence
To praise oneself
To confess without of reserve
To destroy before it blooms
To play fast and loose :
To beguile others
To be winning sometimes and losing at other times
To play with someones feeling
To play tricks