Home
Current Affairs January 2024

Direction.

Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/ phrase.

What is the correct answer?

4

To turn the tables :

A. To defeat

B. To oppose

C. To create chaos

D. To change the sorry scheme

Correct Answer :

D. To change the sorry scheme


Related Questions

What is the correct answer?

4

To live fast :

A. To lead a life of dissipation

B. To accomplish a purpose

C. to do a task hurriedly

D. To use up ones income as fast as it comes in

What is the correct answer?

4

A tall order :

A. A task difficult to perform

B. A bid problem

C. A royal summon

D. A big demand

What is the correct answer?

4

To pick holes

A. To find some reason to quarrel

B. To destroy something

C. To criticise someone

D. To cut some part of an item

What is the correct answer?

4

You will succeed if you follow my advice to the letter .

A. about writing letters

B. written in the letter

C. in every detail

D. very thoughtfully

What is the correct answer?

4

To give a false colouring :

A. To misrepresent

B. To submit the false report

C. To be dishonest

D. To conceal the facts

What is the correct answer?

4

To leave someone in the lurch

A. To come to compromise with someone

B. Constant source of annoyance to someone

C. To put someone at ease

D. To desert someone in his difficulties

What is the correct answer?

4

To put one's hand to plough

A. To take up agricultural farming

B. To take a difficult task

C. To get entangled into unnecessary things

D. Take interest in technical work

What is the correct answer?

4

At daggers drawn

A. at enmity

B. to be puzzled

C. at friendship

D. real cause

What is the correct answer?

4

At dagger's drawn

A. to be very friendly

B. to have bitter enmity

C. to be very familiar

D. to be unknown

What is the correct answer?

4

To keeps one's temper

A. To become hungry

B. To be in good mood

C. To preserve ones energy

D. To be aloof from

What is the correct answer?

4

out and out

A. slightly

B. totally

C. simply

D. merely

What is the correct answer?

4

To give chapter and verse for a thing :

A. To produce the proof of something

B. To eulogize the qualities of a thing

C. To make publicity of a thing

D. To attach artificial value to a thing

What is the correct answer?

4

To turn the tables :

A. To defeat

B. To oppose

C. To create chaos

D. To change the sorry scheme

What is the correct answer?

4

no love lost between

A. forming a group

B. have a good understanding

C. not on good terms

D. stop loving

What is the correct answer?

4

To play second fiddle

A. To be happy, cheerful and healthy

B. To reduce importance of one's senior

C. To support the role and view of another person

D. To do back seat driving

What is the correct answer?

4

Hard-pressed :

A. Bewildered

B. Insulted

C. Hard discipline

D. In difficulties

What is the correct answer?

4

He made away with ten thousand rupees in the course of three months.

A. earned

B. ran away with

C. squandered

D. saved

What is the correct answer?

4

To show the white feather :

A. To show signs to cowardice

B. To seek peace

C. To show arrogance

D. To become polite

What is the correct answer?

4

To wrangle over an asss shadow :

A. To act in a foolish way

B. To do something funny

C. To quarrel over trifles

D. To quarrel over the possession of an ass

What is the correct answer?

4

He made my day by telling me how important I was to him.

A. gave me great pleasure

B. displeased me

C. spoiled my day

D. made me resentful

What is the correct answer?

4

You will succeed if you follow my advice to the letter .

A. about writing letters

B. written in the letter

C. in every detail

D. very thoughtfully

What is the correct answer?

4

To smell a rat

A. To see signs of plague epidemic

B. To get bad small of a bad dead rat

C. To suspect foul dealings

D. To be in a bad mood

What is the correct answer?

4

green thumb

A. one has a green tatto on the thumb

B. to have a natural intrest in gardening

C. one is articstic

D. ones nails are painted green

What is the correct answer?

4

The students of that group have assured their project guide that they will all work against the clock .

A. work while keeping patience

B. work with vigour to finish in limited time

C. work with enthusiasm

D. work hard to go against the time

What is the correct answer?

4

He has all his ducks in a row ; he is complacent.

A. has everything ready

B. is well organised

C. always scores a zero

D. never gets confused

What is the correct answer?

4

To set the people by ears :

A. To box the people

B. To insult and disgrace the people

C. To punish heavily

D. To excite people to a quarrel

What is the correct answer?

4

By leaps and bounds

A. aimlessly

B. very fast

C. very slow

D. in details

What is the correct answer?

4

Harp on :

A. To comment

B. To criticise

C. To keeep on talking

D. To keep on insulting

What is the correct answer?

4

To take the bull by the horns :

A. To punish a person severly for his arrogance

B. To grapple courageously with difficulty that lies in our way

C. To handle it by fierce attack

D. To bypass the legal process and take action according to ones own whims

What is the correct answer?

4

Adolescence is a period of halcyon days.

A. hard days

B. of mental pressure

C. happy days

D. days of preparation