Idioms and Phrases
Direction: In the following questions four alternatives are given for the Idiom/Phrase in bold in the sentence. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the Idiom/Phrase.
- keep body and soul together
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keep body and soul together: stay alive especially in difficult circumstances; to have just enough to sustain. Here, to have just enough to sustain is the right option. Look at the sentence :
● Do you think a man can keep body and soul together by selling coconuts?Correct Option: C
keep body and soul together: stay alive especially in difficult circumstances; to have just enough to sustain. Here, to have just enough to sustain is the right option. Look at the sentence :
● Do you think a man can keep body and soul together by selling coconuts?
- do a roaring trade
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do a roaring trade : do very good business, to be highly successful. Here, highly successful is the right option. Look at the sentence :
● It was a hot sunny day and the ice cream sellers were doing a roaring trade.Correct Option: B
do a roaring trade : do very good business, to be highly successful. Here, highly successful is the right option. Look at the sentence :
● It was a hot sunny day and the ice cream sellers were doing a roaring trade.
- blueblooded
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blue-blooded : relating to royalty and the nobility; aristocratic; of noble birth. Here, of noble birth is the right option. Look at the sentence :
● Pt. Nehru was a blue-blooded politician.Correct Option: B
blue-blooded : relating to royalty and the nobility; aristocratic; of noble birth. Here, of noble birth is the right option. Look at the sentence :
● Pt. Nehru was a blue-blooded politician.
- a storm in a teacup
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a storm in a tea cup/a tempest in a teapot : a lot of unnecessary anger and worry about a matter that is not important. Here, big fuss over a small matter is the right option. Look at the sentence :
● To quarrel for a joke is like a storm in a tea cup.Correct Option: C
a storm in a tea cup/a tempest in a teapot : a lot of unnecessary anger and worry about a matter that is not important. Here, big fuss over a small matter is the right option. Look at the sentence :
● To quarrel for a joke is like a storm in a tea cup.
- mare’s nest
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mare’s nest : a discovery that seems interesting but is found to have no value; a very complicated situation; worthless thing. Here, worthless thing is the right option. Look at the sentence :
● The announced cure for the disease was merely another mare’s nest.Correct Option: B
mare’s nest : a discovery that seems interesting but is found to have no value; a very complicated situation; worthless thing. Here, worthless thing is the right option. Look at the sentence :
● The announced cure for the disease was merely another mare’s nest.