Instruction:
- An idiom is a phrase wherein the words when used together, have a meaning different from the dictionary definitions of individual words
- To Solve idioms and phrases question one should break the word into component parts & identify the idioms, phrases.
- In Idioms words together have a meaning which is different from their individual dictionary meaning.
- Some proverbs/idioms are given below together with their meanings. Choose the correct meaning of proverb/idiom, If there is no correct meaning given, E (i.e.) ‘None of these’ will be the answer.
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Idioms and Phrases II – Question and answers
Bid defiance?
Blow one’s trumpet?
Bury the hatchet?
Bring to book?
Blaze the trail?
Broken Reed?
By dint of?
Charley horse?
Cart before the horse?
Chalk and Cheese?
Cry for the moon?
Carry the day?
Cloven hoof?
Cry over spilt milk?
Example : People use to cry over split milk if they do not execute tasks with proper planning.Call names?
Call a spade a spade?
Cut both ends?
Crocodile tears?
Carrot and stick policy?
Dig the grave?
Damp squib?
Die-hard?
Eat humble pie?
Ever and Anon?
Face the music?
Fish in troubles waters?
Fly in the face of?
Full tilt?
Giddy goat?
Give up the ghost?
Go to the dogs?
Grease the palm?
Hanky Panky?
Hold one’s tongue?
Hope against hope?
In a lurch?
In a flutter?
Jaundiced eye?
Example : You must not evaluate anything with a jaundiced eye.Kick one’s heels?
Lost in the clouds?