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Phrases and Idioms

1.	To end in smoke-----

To create fire

To go through suffering

To come to nothing

To see these

2.	Through thick and thin’ means

under all conditions

to make thick and thin

not clear in understanding

of great density

3.	What is the meaning of ‘White Elephant’?

An elephant of white colour

A hoarder

A black marketer

A very costly or troublesome possession

4.	A bird in hand is worth tow in the bush. The sentence means------

Take what you have got readily instead of expecting better in the future.

Something is better than nothing.

Better an empty house than an ill tenant.

One needs to learn how to make profit.

5.	The condition of most slum dwellers is so miserable that it cannot be described in words. ---- Which is the best phrase for the underlined expression above?

beggars description

cuts to the quick

boils down to this

keeps open house

6.	Which of the following phrasal verbs means ‘blame and criticize’?

come heavily on

fall down on

come down on

fall heavily on

7.	A person whose ‘head’ is in the ‘clouds’ is---

Proud

a day dreamer

an aviator

useless

8.	The horror movie scared them out of their-----

wits

seats

lives

funds

9.	All his dreams were nipped in the bud. Here ‘nipped in the bud’ means.

fulfilled

were liked buds of flower

cherished well

destroyed at the beginning.

10.	It is too difficult to ‘tolerate’ bad temper for long. ---- Which of the following phrases best replaces ‘tolerate’ in the above sentence?

cope op with

put up with

stand up for

pull on with

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