Idioms and Phrases MCQs

Question 1

To make umbrage

Accepted Answer

To be offended

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To feel depressed

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To be satisfied

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To be pleased

Question 2

To give a false colouring

Accepted Answer

To misrepresent

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To submit the false report

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To be dishonest

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To conceal the facts

Question 3

Hush money

Accepted Answer

Bribe paid to secure silence

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Money overdue

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Easy money

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Money earned by wrong means

Question 4

To disabuse one's mind

Accepted Answer

To remove a misapprehension

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To conceal something

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To banish from one's mind a thought

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To proceed cautiously so as to avoid risks and dangers

Question 5

Castles in the air

Accepted Answer

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Romantic designs

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Perfect plans

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Ideal projects

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Fanciful schemes

Question 6

Dog in the manger

Accepted Answer

A person who prevents others from enjoying something useless to himself

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An undersized bull almost the shape of a dog

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A dog that has no kennel of its own

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A person who puts himself in difficulties on account of other people

Question 7

Something up one's sleeve

Accepted Answer

A secret plan

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A grand idea

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A profitable plan

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Something important

Question 8

A red letter day

Accepted Answer

An important day

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An auspicious day

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A dangerous day

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An unimportant day

Question 9

To pay one back in the same coin

Accepted Answer

To retaliate

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To provoke a person to quarrel

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To offer another polite attention

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To give a word of encouragement or praise to another