Direction.
Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/ phrase.
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
Correct Answer :
A. To honour a man who is coming into office
Related Questions
All in all
Every person
Call all at once
Most important
Particular thing same in all
To pick holes
To find some reason to quarrel
To destroy something
To criticise someone
To cut some part of an item
Hard-pressed :
Bewildered
Insulted
Hard discipline
In difficulties
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 pull strings :
To exert hidden influence
To tease someone
To speed up
To start something
To pay off old scores :
To have ones revenge
To settle a dispute
To repay the old loan
None of these
We must work with all our might and main, otherwise we cannot succeed.
full force
complete trust
exceptional skill
full unity
no love lost between
forming a group
have a good understanding
not on good terms
stop loving
We cannot depend on him for this assignment as it needs careful handling and he is like a bull in a china shop .
a felicitous person
a clumsy person
a tactful person
a no-nonsense person
To pull ones socks up :
To prepare
To try hard
To get ready
To depart
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
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
a tight corner
in a difficult situation
in a closed room
in a small field
in a meadow
To take with a grain of salt :
To take with some reservation
To take with total disbelief
To take whole heartedly
To take seriously
The new manager ruled the roost to every one.
exercised authority
rushed through work
got paid very handsomely
created good impression
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
He made my day by telling me how important I was to him.
gave me great pleasure
displeased me
spoiled my day
made me resentful
To cry wolf.
To listen eagerly
To give false alarm
To turn pale
To keep off starvation
To pour oil in troubled water :
To forment trouble
To add to the trouble
To instigate
To calm a quarrel with sooting words
To read between the lines :
To concentrate
To read carefully
To suspect
To grasp the hidden meaning
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
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
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
A bull in a china shop :
A person who is very ugly but loves the beautiful things of life
A person who takes a sadistic delight in harming innocient people
A person who becomes too excited where no excitment is warranted
A person who is rought and clumsy where skill and care are required
The pros and cons :
For and aginst a thing
Foul and fair
Good and evil
Former and latter
out and out
slightly
totally
simply
merely
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
You will succeed if you follow my advice to the letter .
about writing letters
written in the letter
in every detail
very thoughtfully
To be in abeyance :
To be in trouble
Dual minded
In a fighting mood
Insuspense
At logger heads
In difficulty
to be at strife
None of above
very happy together