Idioms and Phrases Test 4 English 23 June 202219 April 2021 by moditechnical@gmail.com Please attempt the test given below. 1. To lose one’s head To go mad To become confused and over excited To lose the balance To become nervous 2. By the skin of one’s teeth In time Only just Hardly Hurriedly 3. To throw down the glove To accept defeat To give a challenge To resort to wrong tactics To reject the prize 4. To be in abeyance In suspense To be in trouble Dual minded In a fighting mood 5. To cast pearls before a swine To spend a lot of money on the unkeep of domestic hogs To waste money over trifles To offer to a person a thing which he cannot appreciate To spend recklessly 6. A chip off the old block An old friend Characteristics of one’s ancestors A good bargain A piece of wood 7. To smell a rat To detect bad smell To misunderstand To suspect a trick or deceit to see hidden meaning 8. To take people by storm To bring out something sensational attracting people’s attention To put people in utter surprise To exploit people’s agitation To captivate them unexpectedly 9. To throw up the sponge To offer a challenge To maintain grit and enthusiasm until the end To become utterly disappointed To surrender or give up a contest 10. Harp on To keep on insulting To criticise To keep on talkin To comment 11. To catch somebody on the hop To catch somebody suddenly To stand in the way of someone To catch somebody off guard To give someone a surprise 12. To spill the beans To keep secrets To talk irrelevant To misbehave To reveal secret informatio 13. To bring one’s eggs to a bad market To bring one’s commodities to a market where there is not is no demand for them To face a humiliating situation To fail in one’s plans because one goes to the wrong people for help To show one’s talents before audience which is incapable of appreciating them 14. To hit below the belt To strike at the exact position To hit the correct mark To work confidentially To harm unfairly 15. To get cold feet To be afraidTo be afraid To fall sick To become discourteous To run for life 16. To take a leap in the dark To do a hazardous thing without any idea of the result To take risk To hazard one self To do a task secretly 17. To give/get the bird To send away To have good luck To get the awaited To get the impossible 18. To be at daggers drawn ) To threaten one To be frightened to be ready to face danger To be bitter enemy 19. To turn up one’s nose at a thing To start to grapple with it To show eagerness to have something To treat it with contemptuous To show indifference 20. To save one’s face To say plainly To evade disgrace To hide oneself To oppose 21. To wash one’s dirty linen in public To discuss dirty and scandalous matters of personal nature in the presense of strangers To quarrel inthe open To criticise one’s nature in public To do some ugly work in public 22. A lady’s man A lover of woman company A man working as per a lady’s directions A woman-tailor A timid husband 23. To throw dust in one’s eyes ) To deceive To make blind To harm someone to show false things 24. To throw dust in one’s eyes To make blind ) To deceive to show false things To harm someone 25. To be rolling in money Wasting a lot of money Borrowing money liberally Very rich Spending more than his income 26. To draw a line to caution someone to insult someone to be stern to fix a limit 27. To break the ice. to become cool to blast a quarrel to be very strong to break an awkward silence 28. A raw deal contract not finally decided early stage of business ) unripe statement unjust treatment 29. Spick and span neat and clean hale and hearty honest and true lean and thin 30. It will be wise on your part to let bygones be bygones. . revive the past resist the past recollect the past ignore the past 31. The politician was able to sway the mob with his gift of the gab. abundance of promise natural style of speaking persuasive speech political insight 32. At parties he is always in high spirits. . uncontrollable cheerful drunk talkative 33. He was in the doldrums after the quarrel with the brother. jubilant aggressive assertive sad and depressed 34. One cannot understand the themes in the poetry of Shelley unless one reads between the lines. . discovers hidden meaning read in inattentively reads alternative lines read cursorily 35. He promised to stand by me through thick and thin. in all conditions ) in bad conditions in good conditions under no condition 36. The idiom ‘break the ice’ means- remove the dust removal the initial hesitation clearing the dew insulting someone 37. ‘To smell a rat’ means- to misunderstand to detect bad smell to see hidden meaning to suspect a trick 38. ‘Achilles heel’ means- the strongest point a big hill a folk dance a fatal weakness 39. ‘Salad days’ means- days of one’s old age experience. days of abstaining from viees days of one’s youthful inexperience days full of hatred for all. 40. The idiom ‘At one’s fingertips’ means – to take revenge matter of shame readily available knowledge balancing on fingers 41. ‘To weather the storm‘ means – to feel happy to make a fuss over something to survive in difficult times to be out in bad weather 42. ‘To pull through‘ means – to control to recover to use a lot of energy to pull with strength 43. A fish out of water’ means – face to face with death in want of a house in a strange situation determined to live 44. ‘A wild goose chase’ is – a pleasurable hunt a violent chase a useless enterprise a harsh gesture 45. ‘Make hay while the sunshine’s means – be active during the day make maximum use of a given opportunity be merry during the summer use the sunshine for harvesting 46. ‘To bank upon‘ means – to depend to hope to invest to harness 47. ‘Need of the hour‘ means- timely remedy the most essential requirement a dire Necessity the requirement at a given time 48. The directories of the company put their heads together to solve the problem ran away listened to each other failed to understand consulted one another 49. A wild goose chase a foolish but fruitful search a foolish and fruitless search a foolish but pleasant search a comprehensive search 50. A wolf in sheep’s clothing an honest man an honest and sincere man a sincere man a hypocrite 51. A dead letter no longer dead no longer liked no longer in force no longer in control 52. In a jiffy a little later later very soon after a long time 53. There is a no smoke without fire There is a no cause without an effect There must be a cause for happening There is no effect without background There is no effect without a cause Loading … Hope you liked the test Please share the post now, Rate this post now
