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Directions:

In the following questions, four alternatives are given for the Idiom/Phrase printed in bold in the sentence. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the Idiom/ Phrase.

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Questions : Ravi fought to the bitter end.

(a) carried on a contest regardless of the consequences

(b) died fighting

(c) fought a losing battle

(d) fought to the last point of enemy's position

The correct answers to the above question in:

Answer: (a)

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Question : 1

He is always praised for his gift of the gab.

a) talent for speaking

b) getting something free

c) great skill

d) being lucky

Answer: (a)

Question : 2

He is not in the good books of his boss.

a) not of the same opinion as

b) in favour with

c) as good as

d) a lover of good books

Answer: (b)

Question : 3

By putting two and two together

a) to keep people in pairs

b) to make an arithmetical calculation

c) to deduce from given facts

d) to mix several things

Answer: (c)

Question : 4

If you are fair and square In your work you will definitely prosper.

a) business like

b) honest

c) authoritative

d) active

Answer: (b)

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.

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Question : 5

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

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.

Question : 6

Beyond the pale

a) Beyond redemption

b) Full of rhetoric

c) Distasteful

d) Unreasonable or unacceptable

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.

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