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Directions:

In each of the questions, four alternatives are given for the Idiom/Phrase. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the Idiom/Phrase.

[SSC CGL Tier-I 2016]

Question : 26

to end in smoke

a) to create smoke

b) to end

c) to emit smoke

d) to fail

Discuss »

Answer: (d)

to end in smoke : to come to nothing; fail.

Here, to fail is the right option.

Look at the sentence : All the efforts of the principal to bring him round ended in smoke.

Question : 27

Leaps and bounds

a) Rapidly

b) Jumping

c) Stationary

d) Slowly

Discuss »

Answer: (a)

Rapidly

By leaps and bounds = to become larger quickly; by large movements forward.

Look at the sentence : The profits of my company are increasing by leaps and bounds.

Question : 28

in the blues

a) violent and angry

b) wearing blue badges

c) singing sad songs

d) cheerless and depressed

Discuss »

Answer: (d)

in the blues : feelings of sadness and depression.

Here, cheerless and depressed is the right option.

Look at the sentence : She went in the blues after the failure in the exam.

Question : 29

Beyond the pale

a) Beyond redemption

b) Full of rhetoric

c) Distasteful

d) Unreasonable or unacceptable

Discuss »

Answer: (d)

Unreasonable or unacceptable

Beyond the pale = outside the bounds of acceptable behaviour; improper; unreasonable; objectionable.

Look at the sentence : The language my father used was beyond the pale.

Question : 30

to eat humble pie

a) to be served food that is rotten

b) to yield under humiliating circumstances

c) to give in to political pressure

d) to eat an unsavoury pie

Discuss »

Answer: (b)

to eat humble pie : to apologise and face humiliation for a serious error; to admit that you are wrong

Here, to yield under humiliating circumstances is the right option.

Look at the sentence : I think I am right, but if I am wrong, I will eat humble pie.

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