idioms and phrases MCQs – Page 3

Practise focused idioms and phrases questions with marked answers for exam preparation and subject revision.

idioms and phrases Mcqs
41. To set ones face against __________?
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A. To judge by appearance

B. To get out of difficulty

C. To look at one steadily

D. To oppose with determination
42. A bed of roses.
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A. Many roses

B. Difficult option

C. Easy Option

D. Tricky option

43. Play away from the field.
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A. To conduct a game far from home.

B. To have se*ual relationship with someone who is not your usual partner.

C. To conduct a game far from home and town.

D. To have se*ual relationship with someone who is your usual partner.

44. To put ones hand to plough __________?
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A. To take a difficult task

B. To get entangled into unnecessary things

C. To take up agricultural farming

D. Take interest in technical work

45. Brain Drain means__________?
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A. Emigration Of Intellectuals

B. Mad Person

C. Migration Of Skilled Person To Other Country

D. None

46. The idiom once a blue moon means?
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A. Often

B. Rapidly

C. Rarely

D. Slowly

47. Beating a dead horse means ________?
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A. To uselessly dwell on a subject far beyond its point of resolution

B. An obvious, pressing issue left unaddressed due to its sensitive nature.

C. To speak the truth, even to the point of being blunt and rude

D. To work late into the night, alluding to the time before electric lighting

48. The idiom To keeps ones temper means:
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A. To become hungry

B. To be in good mood

C. To be aloof from

D. T0 preserve ones energy

49. All Hours means___________?
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A. At Regular Times

B. At Irregular Times

C. Every Hour

D. None of these

50. Nod off means?
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A. turn off something

B. sitting down

C. Fall asleep

D. take rest

51. flogging a dead horse__________?
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A. Beating about the bush.

B. Wasting time in useless effort

C. Making him see reason.

D. Repeating our request

52. Give cold shoulder means__________?
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A. To ignore

B. To support

C. Cold meat

D. Shiver

53. Better ______ than never.
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A. Late

B. Sometime

C. Once

D. Repeat

54. A litmus test means __________ ?
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A. False sense of happiness or success

B. To show dislike or disappointment through facial expressions

C. A decisively indicative test

D. Something that is not understandable

55. A man of straw _________?
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A. A worthy fellow

B. A very active person

C. A man of no substance

D. An unreasonable person

56. The idiom All and Sundry means?
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A. Specific

B. Experienced

C. Relevant

D. Everyone
57. Feel good means to;___________?
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A. Show goodwill to someone

B. Know or sense something

C. Move along very carefully

D. Become happy or confident
58. Do no trust a man who blows his own trumpet
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A. praises others

B. admonishes others

C. praises himself

D. flatters

59. For this act of indifference he will be taken to task by the authority; here taken to task means:
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A. Entrusted with an official job.

B. Tender his resignation

C. Rewarded

D. Get an official reprimand
60. Foreign phrase De Jure means?
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A. By law

B. Illegal

C. Compromising

D. Successful