Idioms and Phrases
- Put up with someone/something
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To put up with someone/something is to tolerate calmly. Usage: 'we have to put up with bad roads in the city'.
Correct Option: A
To put up with someone/something is to tolerate calmly. Usage: 'we have to put up with bad roads in the city'.
- Make up
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Usage: Students often makeup unbelievable tales to escape punishment.
Correct Option: B
Usage: Students often makeup unbelievable tales to escape punishment.
- Give away
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To give away is to give something for free or to betray someone by revealing information or to disclose something by mistake. Usage: 'Incoherent speech gave the driver away and was booked for drunken driving'.
Correct Option: D
To give away is to give something for free or to betray someone by revealing information or to disclose something by mistake. Usage: 'Incoherent speech gave the driver away and was booked for drunken driving'.
- Cut back
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To cut back is to reduce something. For example, 'You must cut back on spending on eating out'.
Correct Option: A
To cut back is to reduce something. For example, 'You must cut back on spending on eating out'.
- Look down on someone
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To look down on/upon someone is to consider/regard or treat them as inferior.
Correct Option: C
To look down on/upon someone is to consider/regard or treat them as inferior.