1. Might and main 3.

depend on others for help

1. With all enthusiasm 4. waste a lot of money

2. Nonsense or meaningless speech 6. Come to blows

3. To keep quiet, To say nothing 1. Start fighting after a disagreement

4. Approximately, almost, somewhat, to a certain 2. Agree with someone

degree 3. Enjoy the cool breeze

2. Loaves and fish 4. Not accept any responsibility

1. To get someone drunk 7. Follow suit

2. Material interests 1. do the same as others

3. Main support 2. try a costume

4. To act in a frenzied manner 3. go after someone

3. A house of cards 4. get on well with others

1. An insecure situation 8. Swim with the tide

2. A lavish lifestyle 1. Accept your fault

3. A gambling casino 2. Going for a swim during the high tide

4. A dishonest livelihood 3. Do something again and again

4. See the light of day 4. Agree with the popular opinion

1. come out of difficulties 9. Pain in the neck

2. get up early in the morning 1. To relieve someone from a painful condition

3. be very happy 2. To be unable to deal with someone stronger

4. become publicly known 3. Someone or something that is very annoying

5. Lose count of 4. To suffer pain because of overexertion of neck

1.forget the accurate total muscles

2.something that happens rarely

10. Have your back against the wall 13. Bottom line

1. To be humiliated and bullied by a superior at 1. The most important fact

work 2. A hidden agenda

2. To have a strong group of people supporting 3. An impossible task

you 4. An awkward situation

3. To be in a desperate situation with very few 14. Be in someone’s shoes

options 1. put on someone’s shoes

4. To be able to successfully tackle a difficult 2. face the same situation as another

task person

11. On the back burner 3. buy the same brand of shoes as

1. To cook a special dish slowly by placing it on another person

the back burner 4. accept someone’s shoes as a present

2. To be unable to complete a task because of a 15. Lock horns

back problem 1. Fight with someone

3. To temporarily not deal with some matter 2. Defeat someone

because it is not urgent 3. Find a mate

4. To carry a heavy burden successfully and 4. Make a team

without complaining 16. Hit a brick wall

12. Flex one’s muscles 1. Use unfair tactics

1. show one’s muscular strength 2. Hit someone with a brick

2. give or make a show of one’s strength 3. Go to sleep

3. beat someone physically with muscle 4. Encounter an obstacle

strength 17. Shed light on

4. show that one has more muscles than another 1. To reduce weight
2. To explain a situation 22. A foregone conclusion

3. To disconnect electricity (a) A generous gift

4. To light a fire (b) A confusing idea

18. Losing ground (c) An obvious speculation

1. Becoming deeply engraved (d) An inevitable result

2. Becoming less acceptable 23. Treading on eggshells

3. Acquiring power (a) Taking care of eggs to save the lives of young

4. Continuing as before chicks

19. A wet blanket (b) Intending to grow very fast

1. A person who spoils other (c) Making best bets in one's trade

people's fun (d) To be careful in speech and actions

2. A person who is enthusiastic 24. The feathers fly

3. An unwelcome guest (a) To add more success to one's career

4. An unpleasant experience (b) To fight and argue a lot

20. Wet behind the ears (c) To lead a carefree life

1. Lacking experience (d) To get into a romantic relationship

2. Fearful 25. Feel the pinch

3. Obedient (a) Being hurt and wounded by someone

4. Honest (b) To remain silent on injustice

21. Hole and comer (c) Having financial problems all of a

A. strict sudden

B. servile (d) Feeling disappointment

C. secret 26. Everyone and his brother

D. suspicious (a) An individual and all his relatives

(b) To think about universal (c) To count each step one takes

brotherhood (d) To be very happy

(c) A large number of people 31. Feet of Clay

(d) To treat people as relatives a. Very soft feet

27. At somebody's elbow b. Difficulty in running

(a) To be dominated by someone c. Slow in actions

(b) To be near someone in order d. Hidden faults

to help 32. On cloud nine

(c) To be kept in house 1. Extremely happy and excited

(d) To make people important 2. Crazy and foolish

28. Double-talk 3. Knowledgeable and wise

(a) Interfering while someone is talking 4. Very far away from home

(b) Speaking with double meaning 33. Wear your heart on your sleeve

(c) Speaking to confuse people and avoid 1. To keep a secret

truth 2. To show your true emotions

(d) Talking repeatedly and annoying people 3. To look attractive

29. Go by the book 4. To love someone secretly

(a) To buy a book of one's choice 34. Read between the lines

(b) To understand the book 1. Make a great effort to read

(c) To follow someone who reads books 2. Read each and every word

(d) To follow rules exactly 3. Discern the hidden meaning in the text

30. Be out for the count 4. Skip pages and read fast

(a) Sleeping deeply 35. Not mince words

(b) Counting money carefully 1. Not to be honest

2. Not to come directly to the point 40. Full of hot air

3. To speak in a direct way 1. Talking nonsense

4. To speak in a garbled way 2. Talking proudly

36. Not make head or tail 3. Being hot tempered

1. very unusual and strange 4. Being too proud

2. not find something interesting 41. Miss the boat

3. not able to understand anything 1. To lose an opportunity

4. very boring and not at all fun 2. To settle down at a place

37. On tenterhooks 3. To do something carefully

1. Alert and enthusiastic 4. To reach the end

2. Anxious and tense 42. To read between the lines

3. Happy and joyous 1. To criticise the writer’s style

4. Neutral and undecided 2. To interrupt someone while reading

38. Don’t put all your eggs in the same basket 3. To read each line carefully

1. Don’t share your wealth with others 4. To understand the implied meaning

2. Don’t buy too many things at one time 43. Against one’s grain

3. Don’t invest in loss making propositions 1. Against one’s nature

4. Don’t concentrate all your resources in one 2. Against the society

place 3. Against the law

39. To take stock of 4. Against one’s family

1. to assess 44. A square deal

2. to discuss 1. An advantageous deal

3. To assemble 2. A false claim

4. To modify 3. A fair and honest deal

4. An unfruitful plan 1. To make a foolish choice

45. To rise like a phoenix 2. To experience defeat

1. To behave like a royal 3. To meet a friend

2. To set on fire 4. To win a match

3. To emerge with a new life 50. To hit below the belt

4. To be modest 1. To hit someone boldly

46. To turn the corner 2. To attack after warning

1. To go back to the past 3. To hit off the mark

2. To change one’s goal 4. To attack in an unfair manner

3. To pass the critical stage

4. To wait for an opportunity

47. Keep your head

1. Be furious

2. Remain calm

3. Protect yourself

4. Respect yourself

48. To have an axe to grind

1. To have an indomitable task to

accomplish

2. To have access to top levels of authority

3. To have adequate means of subsistence

4. To have a selfish motive in doing

something

49. To meet one’s Waterloo

1. He is the most successful businessman. 4. Stop working on something
One of his traits is to take risk.
4. Select the correct meaning of the idiom in
1. Throw caution to the wind bold and italics.

2. Talk through his hat I had a close shave this morning – my car was
hit badly by a bull.
3. Fill somebody’s shoes
1. In a position where one might receive severe
4. Tighten his belt
criticism
2. Select the most appropriate meaning of the
2. To be carrying a wild look
given idiom.
3. To request someone to stay calm and not
Cutting corners
get annoyed
1. Investing in MNCs to get better returns and
4. A narrow escape
exchange
5. Choose the correct meaning of the
2. Doing something poorly in order to save time
underlined idiom in the given sentence.
or money
Blue blood is not necessarily a guarantee of
3. Stitching clothes with a unique design
one’s public decorum.
4. Cutting the edges to make it small and
1. A person belonging to a middle-class family
round
2. A person belonging to an honest family
3. Select the most appropriate meaning of the
given idiom. 3. A person belonging to a poor family

Call it a day 4. A person belonging to a high family

1. Call it as a bad day 6. Select the most appropriate meaning of the

given idiom.
2. Stop thinking in daytime
To make matters worse
3. Call it as a good and productive day
1. No matter can become worse
2. Sometimes situation can become worse 1. Having plenty of money

3. Make the situation worse 2. Find a successful way of making money

4. Matters can be worse 3. Earn a lot of money very easily

7. Select the most appropriate meaning of the 4. Be very poor

given idiom.
10. Select the most appropriate meaning of
Heart and soul the given idiom.

1. With complete honesty Crying wolf

2. Front to front 1. To be in pain by getting hit by something

3. With all the effort you can put 2. To frighten someone in your comfort zone

4. Feeling sympathy for someone 3. To ask for help when you don’t need it

8. Choose the correct meaning of the 4. To cry over little things that don’t matter
underlined idiom in the given sentence.
11. Select the most appropriate meaning of
With two toddlers to handle and no house help the given idiom.
at her disposal, Shilpa can never put her house
Belly laugh
in apple-pie order.
1. Mocking someone
1. Completely messy
2. Laughing with inhibition
2. Smell-proof
3. A loud and unrestrained laugh
3. Completely arranged
4. To be subjected to mockery and ridicule
4. Ready for guests
12. Select the most appropriate meaning of
9. Select the most appropriate meaning of the
the underlined idiom.
given idiom.
When grandmother found her granddaughter’s
Be on the breadline
collection like her numismatist daughter’s,
she knew her granddaughter is a chip off the 15. Select the idiom that can correctly replace
old block. the underlined part of the given sentence.

1. Changed It was a very important meeting, but I stayed

cool as ice because I knew our product was
2. A person who is similar in behaviour or
the best.
actions to his/her parents
1. cool as a cake 2. cool as a cucumber
3. Damaged
3. cool as a carrot 4. cool as a cabbage
4. Getting obsessed
16. Select the most appropriate meaning of
13. Select the most appropriate meaning of
the given idiom.
the given idiom.
To give someone the cold shoulder
A mare’s nest
1. To ignore someone
1. Deep crisis
2. To carry the burden of everyone
2. Simple and interesting work
3. To be carried on someone’s back
3. Complicated situation
4. To listen to someone with empathy
4. Area of law
17. Select the most appropriate meaning of
14. Select the most appropriate meaning of
the given idiom.
the given idiom.
True colours
Beside oneself
1. Black and white
1. Almost out of one’s senses
2. Light colours
2. In the secret
3. Real character
3. Under all conditions
4. Bright colours
4. To stand for one’s own fault
18. Select the most appropriate meaning of 21. Select the most appropriate idiom for the
the underlined idiom. underlined segment in the given sentence.

He burnt his fingers by getting into others’ Rajeshwar has a vision for capturing beautiful
problems. pictures of nature.

1. To get rid off 1. An eagle eye

2. To get rewarded 2. A high horse

3. To get into trouble 3. Cry wolf

4. To burn ones fingers 4. A cat nap

19. Idioms 22. Select the most appropriate meaning of

the underlined idiom.
It is his first interview, so he has a nervous
feeling. The mother-in-law deliberately rained on the
new bride’s parade when she asked her to
1. Butterflies in his stomach
change the dress of her choice.
2. A slap on the wrist
1. Force traditions upon someone
3. Tug at his heartstrings
2. Make someone tearful out of viciousness
4. Icing on the cake
3. To spoil a moment
20. Select the most appropriate meaning of
4. Save one from embarrassment
the given idiom.
23. Select the most appropriate meaning of
Salt of the earth
the given idiom.
1. Do anything possible
At the drop of a dime
2. A very good and honest person
1. A way of saying that you are happy to see
3. Discovered after a lot of searching
someone
4. Choose one at random
2. Something that is not popular
3. Something that can happen very fast 3. Calm
without hesitation
4. Busy
4. Extremely easy to understand
27. Some colleagues at a workplace are really
24. Select the most appropriate meaning of hard nuts to crack.
the given idiom.
1. Hardcore traditions in a family
All ears
2. An inflexible person who is hard to convince
1. To scold someone bitterly
3. Someone showing extra concern over little
2. To listening attentively things

3. To listen to everyone 4. An easy-goer who can be easily convinced

4. To not be vocal 28. Select the most appropriate meaning of

the underlined idiom.
25. Select the most appropriate meaning of
the given idiom. He was beaming from ear to ear.

To pull someone’s leg 1. Playing

1. To talk something bad about someone 2. Smiling broadly

2. To talk something good about someone 3. Criticising bitterly

3. To joke with someone 4. Working

4. To push a person
29. Select the most appropriate meaning of
26. Select the most appropriate meaning of
the given idiom.
the given idiom.
At sea
Snowed under
1. To overcome
1. Lazy
2. Obsolete
2. Silent
3. At a loss or perplexed Even when the child accused the relative of
inappropriate behaviour, the parents
4. To blunder
continued to play perfect hosts at the
30. Select the sentence that uses the idiom
party instead of addressing the elephant in the
correctly.
room.
1. Flowers bloom under the weather.
1. Ignoring someone who seeks attention
2. Trees shed their leaves under the weather.
through false stories
3. She missed the exam as she felt under the
2. Punishing someone for inappropriate
weather.
behaviour
4. Reena was walking on the lawn under the
3. Revealing the secrets
weather.
4. A big problem everyone is ignoring or afraid
31. Select the most appropriate idiom that can
to talk about
substitute the italicised words in the given
33. Select the most appropriate meaning of
sentence.
the given idiom.
You get a good and comprehensive idea of the
To stand one's ground
town from the clock tower situated in the
centre of the town. 1. To maintain one’s position

1. blind date 2. To fight for the same position

2. body and soul 3. To stand up

3. bird’s eye view 4. To stand in one’s own land

4. blind alley 34. Select the most appropriate meaning of

the given idiom.

A slap on the wrist

32. Select the most appropriate meaning of
the underlined idiom. 1. Punishment to an innocent.
2. Suggest something secretly. 3. Weak excuse

3. A very mild punishment. 4. Strong excuse

4. Beating someone too much on the wrist. 38. Select the correct meaning of the idiom in
bold and italics.
35. Select the most appropriate meaning of
the given idiom. Our hearts go out to the families of the victims
of this terrible tragedy.
A lot on one’s plate
1. To receive or express praise for a job well
1. To eat a lot
done
2. A lot to do
2. To feel sympathy for someone when they are
3. To have a serious ailment
distressed
4. To serve all dishes on one plate
3. Well wishes for a deceased person
36. Select the most appropriate meaning of
4. To wish for things does not yield to anything
the given idiom.
39. Select the most appropriate meaning of
To be on thin ice
the given idiom.
1. To be in faulty situation
Toffee-nosed
2. To be in marginalised situation
1. A person who thinks he is of a high social
3. To be in a risky situation class and

4. To be in limited scope looks down on people of lower class

37. Select the most appropriate meaning of 2. A solid, respectable and respected member
the given of society

idiom. 3. Continue to live at the same social standard

A lame excuse we have

1. No excuse 2. Explanation lived at, even though we have money problems

4. A person who seems impolite/of low 2. Unrelated to the family
education at first, but who is usually of good
3. Danger to the family
character
4. Unloved by the family
40. Select the most appropriate meaning of
43. Select the most appropriate idiom to fill in
the underlined idiom.
the blank.
He is in high spirits today.
The family's meeting on property dispute
1. Annoying
begins today and I'm just sitting down with a
2. Disturbed cup of coffee, enjoying

3. Drunk ___________.

4. Cheerful 1. the better of 2. the corridors of power

3. the calm before the storm

41. Select the most appropriate idiom for the 4. the bottom line

underlined segment in the given sentence. 44. Idioms

The evidence put forward could not confirm Sometimes doing something that makes it
his guilt.
impossible to return to the previous situation
1. Bring up 2. Break down later strengthens you.

3. Bear up 4. Blow off 1. Painting the town red

42. Select the most appropriate meaning of 2. Knocking your socks off
the underlined idiom.
3. Burning your bridges 4. A red-letter day
In the movie ‘Encanto’, the family thought
45. Select the most appropriate meaning of
Bruno was a black sheep.
the given idiom.
1. Disgrace for the family
Wild goose chase
1. Doing something crazy By hook or by crook

2. Working very hard for something 1. Using a lot of energy and effort to do
something
3. To betray someone
2. Using whatever methods are necessary
4. Futile search
3. Making more of an effort
46. Choose the correct meaning of the
underlined idiom in the given sentence. 4. Probably possible, but it will be difficult

Saira is unable to sustain friendships because 49. Select the most appropriate meaning of
she always has too many axes to grind. the given idiom.

1. To work for others Once in a blue moon

2. To have one’s own interests to serve 1. Occasionally

3. To use weapons carefully 2. Continuously

4. To believe in selflessness 3. Rarely

47. Select the most appropriate meaning of 4. Often

the given idiom.
50. Select the most appropriate meaning of
Up in the air the given idiom.

1. Something that is tossed up in the air Hand and glove

2. Something that is certain and decided 1. Very intimate terms 2. Under all conditions

3. Something that is unknown entirely 3. Decided

4. Something that is invisible and unattainable 4. Oppressive

51. Select the most appropriate idiom for the

underlined segment in the given sentence.
48. Select the most appropriate meaning of
the given idiom.