IDIOM

Total Questions: 84

2 - Led astray:

A ) Misguided ✅
B ) Lose the job
C ) Killed
D ) None of these

3 - The green-eyed monster means

A ) Hatred ✅
B ) An animal with green eyes
C ) To get into trouble
D ) None of these

4 - In a jiffy means :

A ) A long time
B ) A very short time ✅
C ) A tensed situation
D ) On the horns of dilemma

5 - "Spill the beans" means:

A ) To reveal secrets ✅
B ) To tell lies
C ) To hope against hope
D ) None of these

6 - Pipe dream means:

A ) Living hope
B ) Impractical wish ✅
C ) Most cherished Dream
D ) None of these

7 - "To end in smoke " means:

A ) To make completely understand
B ) To destroy or ruin oneself ✅
C ) To excite great applause
D ) To overcome someone

8 - The idiom "Kick the bucket" means ?

A ) To kill
B ) To achieve a goal
C ) To be successful
D ) To die ✅

9 - The meaning of the idiom "Laugh in one's sleeves" is?

A ) To laugh loudly
B ) To laugh at someone openly
C ) To laugh secretly on
D ) To laugh secretly ✅

10 - The meaning of the idiom 'At Stake' is:

A ) At a high price
B ) Ready for grabbing
C ) In danger ✅
D ) In the limelight

11 - What does the idiom "Add fuel to fire" mean?

A ) Ignite a flame
B ) Supply more resources
C ) Worsen an already bad situation ✅
D ) Encourage someone energetically

12 - Choose the correct meaning of an Idiom; "Bag and Baggage"

A ) Without any belonging
B ) Leave
C ) All the clothing's
D ) With all one's belonging ✅

13 - What does the phrase "to cry wolf" mean?

A ) To listen eagerly
B ) To give a false alarm ✅
C ) To run pale
D ) To keep off starvation

14 - What does the phrase "hard not to crack" mean?

A ) Someone who solves puzzles easily
B ) A difficult person or problem ✅
C ) A person who likes a joke around
D ) Someone who needs guidance

15 - Choose the correct meaning of the idiom. Between the devil and the deep blue sea

A ) To be in trouble
B ) To be in comfort
C ) Be caught between two undesirable alternatives ✅
D ) To have all kind of problems

16 - To poke one's nose into

A ) To take interest in other's affairs ✅
B ) To clean nose
C ) Tu bury oneself
D ) None of these

17 - Idiom "French leave". Means?

A ) Leave early
B ) Absence without permission ✅
C ) Take a long break
D ) Attend a french event

18 - The idiom "out of the blue" means:

A ) Higher than the sky
B ) Once upon a time
C ) An unexpected way ✅
D ) Many times

19 - "Hornet's nest" means:

A ) A violent situation ✅
B ) A bee's house
C ) A good situation
D ) None of these

20 - A pipe dream

A ) A nightmare
B ) A daydream
C ) An unending dream
D ) None of these (A hope or plan that will never come true) ✅

21 - Odds and ends means:

A ) To do big things with in the knowledge of others
B ) To take the burden upon oneself
C ) Remnants ✅
D ) None of these

22 - What does the idiom "Get into hot water" means?

A ) To make tea
B ) To take a hot bath
C ) To be in difficulties ✅
D ) To have a heated argument

23 - The expression "to nip on the bud" means:

A ) To destroy in the very beginning ✅
B ) Encourage
C ) Make use of time
D ) Waste time

24 - The correct phrase for the sentence "He considered getting a demanding job" is:

A ) Crying for the moon ✅
B ) To be happy
C ) To confuse
D ) None of these

25 - Be out of blue means:

A ) Higher than sky
B ) Suddenly ✅
C ) One upon a time
D ) None of these

26 - Give the meaning of idiom: To wash one's dirty linen in public

A ) To criticize one's nose nature in public
B ) To quarrel in the open
C ) To do some ugly work in public
D ) To discuss dirty and scandalous matters of personal nature in the presence of strangers ✅

27 - To "Jump on the bandwagon" means to,

A ) Continue
B ) Join in ✅
C ) Rest
D ) None of these

28 - To cross swords

A ) To fight ✅
B ) To defend
C ) To kill
D ) To rob

29 - What is the meaning of A fair weather friend

A ) False friend ✅
B ) Characteristics of one's ancestors
C ) Loyal friend
D ) Close friend

30 - Under the cloud means

A ) To be under suspension ✅
B ) To be a secret
C ) Feel good factor
D ) Amazing

31 - Broken reed means

A ) Weak person ✅
B ) A subject of talk
C ) Some cause of quarrel
D ) Keep lost in dreams

32 - Wheel within a wheel means

A ) Easy task
B ) Complex situation ✅
C ) Uniform situation
D ) None of these

33 - Sail under false colors means

A ) Try to remain silent
B ) Try to deceive ✅
C ) Try to honest
D ) None of these

34 - Hide one's light under a bushel

A ) To save electricity
B ) To conceal one's talents ✅
C ) To avoid limelight
D ) None of these

35 - To fish in trouble water

A ) To make a personal profit out of disturbance ✅
B ) To dive in deep water
C ) To go for a daunting task
D ) None of these

36 - Face the music means:

A ) Bear the consequences ✅
B ) Worng impression
C ) Tears shed by a crocodile
D ) None of these

37 - A wolf in ------

A ) Donkey's clothing
B ) Sheep clothing ✅
C ) Greece
D ) None of these

38 - Complete the idiomatic phrase: Out of the frying-pan

A ) Into the fire ✅
B ) In the plate
C ) Into the water
D ) None of these

39 - Familiarity breeds ------

A ) Contempt ✅
B ) Enmity
C ) Love
D ) None of these

40 - Translate into English چھوٹا منہ بڑی بات

A ) Close your mouth and open your eyes
B ) Smell with great boast ✅
C ) A closed mouth catches no flies
D ) From the mouths of babes

41 - Translate into English نو نقد نہ تیرہ ادھار

A ) Money doesn't grow on trees
B ) A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush ✅
C ) Money talks
D ) Time is money

42 - ایک ہاتھ سے تالی نہیں بجتی Translate into English

A ) One hand nose not work The other does ✅
B ) It takes two to quarrel
C ) Hand in hand
D ) An iron hand

43 - Translate into English عین وقت پر

A ) Late
B ) In a while
C ) In the nick of time ✅
D ) Shortly

44 - Choose the best Urdu translation given option Man of parts

A ) قابل قبول
B ) الگ رائے رکھنے والا
C ) با صلاحیت ✅
D ) قابل بھروسہ

45 - Match the English proverb with the Urdu equivalent: All are not saint that goes to church.

A ) بغل میں چھری منہ میں رام رام ✅
B ) تالی ایک ہاتھ سے نہیں بجتی
C ) آگے دوڑ پیچھے چھوڑ
D ) None of these

46 - The meaning of the Alpha and Omaga is:

A ) Begining and End ✅
B ) Accurate and Precise
C ) To make all efforts to win
D ) None of these

47 - A stitch in time saves ------:

A ) Seven
B ) Nine ✅
C ) Ten
D ) None of these

48 - What does the phrase "putting the Cart before the horse" mean

A ) To do something contrary to conventional order ✅
B ) To do something
C ) To do things in correct order
D ) To be overactive

49 - To "Iron out" means to

A ) Complete small details
B ) Make problems
C ) Plan ahead
D ) None of these (solve problems) ✅

50 - Correct the following phrase To fly at the face of:

A ) Too fly at the face of
B ) To fly of the face of
C ) to fly in the face of ✅
D ) None of these

51 - His office is always in apple-pie order. "apple-pie order" means?

A ) Neat & tidy ✅
B ) Disordered
C ) Mismanaged
D ) Ornamental

52 - Idiom "Tie the knot" means?

A ) Friendship
B ) Getting married ✅
C ) Enmity
D ) Criticism

53 - Idiom "To cut long story short" means?

A ) Tell the story briefly
B ) Come to the point ✅
C ) Miss the main points
D ) None of above

54 - The piece of cake idiom means?

A ) Part of cake
B ) An easy task ✅
C ) Celebrate birthday
D ) None of these

55 - "Never-never land" means?

A ) An ideal place ✅
B ) Dream land
C ) A worthless place
D ) A useless situation

56 - Guess the closest possible meanings of the given idiom from the options given below: Cut the mustard

A ) To leave the job
B ) To get injuried
C ) To come up to expectations ✅
D ) None of these

57 - What is the meaning of the idiom A chip off the old block

A ) An old friend
B ) A piece of wood
C ) A good bargain
D ) Characteristics of one's ancestors ✅

58 - Choose the best Urdu translation from the given option: Bread and Butter

A ) موج میلہ
B ) روزگار ✅
C ) روٹی سالن
D ) سالانہ خرچہ

59 - Choose the best English translation from the given option:باوثوق ذرائع سے

A ) Straight from the officials
B ) Straight from the horse's mouth ✅
C ) Straight from the lion's mouth
D ) Straight from the box

60 - Choose the correct meaning of: At arm's length

A ) At a distance ✅
B ) Insult
C ) Length of arm
D ) None of these

61 - To be old as the hills means:

A ) To be old but foolish
B ) To be very ancient ✅
C ) To be wise and learned
D ) None of these

62 - Idiom Scratch someone's back means:

A ) Give someone a favor ✅
B ) Backbiting someone
C ) Find Flaws in someone's work
D ) None of these

63 - Give the meaning of idiom: Spick and Span

A ) Meanwhile
B ) Neat and clean ✅
C ) In the meantime
D ) None of these

64 - Every cloud has a ------

A ) Shining lining
B ) Silver lining ✅
C ) Rainy lining
D ) None of these

65 - Choose the best meaning of the idiomatic phrase: To turn the tables

A ) To reverse the condition completely ✅
B ) To turn someone
C ) To turn the situation to one's side
D ) None of these

66 - Give the meaning of idiom: To be rolling in Money

A ) Very rich ✅
B ) Washing a lot of money
C ) Borrowing money
D ) None of these

67 - Idiomatic phrase "Out and Out" means

A ) Completely ✅
B ) Miss out
C ) Long for something
D ) None of these

68 - To give up smoking means

A ) Stop smoking ✅
B ) Arrange smoking
C ) Both A and B
D ) None of these

69 - The idiom "On the cards" mean

A ) Likely ✅
B ) Due
C ) Evident
D ) At risk

70 - Idiom "Burn the midnight oil" means:

A ) Counting your days earning in the night
B ) Heat up a place to make it comfortable
C ) Stay awake or study late into the night ✅
D ) Finish all the resources available

71 - "At the drop of a hat" means:

A ) Immediately ✅
B ) Without delay
C ) As a follow-up of orders
D ) In a good moment

72 - 'To hit the road' means to:

A ) Finish journey
B ) Start journey ✅
C ) Dismantle a road
D ) Repair a road

73 - Let sleeping dogs lie

A ) To avoid restarting a conflict ✅
B ) To avoid disturbing someone
C ) To care for dogs
D ) To kill the sleeping dogs

74 - Complete the idiom: "Best things come in small packages

A ) Instalments
B ) Joys ✅
C ) Packages
D ) Gifts

75 - Complete, idiom Absence makes the heart grow -----:

A ) Close
B ) Fonder ✅
C ) Near
D ) Far

76 - "To hit the nail on the head" means

A ) To say just the right thing ✅
B ) To act just the right moment
C ) To speak hard words
D ) To antagonist

77 - "To cut a sorry figure "

A ) To cut short
B ) To feel sorry ✅
C ) To criticize
D ) None of these

78 - Give the meaning of idiom: To get cold feet

A ) To be afraid ✅
B ) To fall sick
C ) To run for life
D ) None of these

79 - Give the meaning of idiom: To throw up the ------

A ) To offer a challenge
B ) To surrender or give up contest ✅
C ) To become utterly disappointed
D ) None of these

80 - A mouth of Sunday means

A ) Won't happen
B ) Extremely long time ✅
C ) Never imagined
D ) None of these

81 - To die in harness means

A ) Die in sickly manner
B ) Died in exile
C ) To die while still working ✅
D ) None of these

82 - Say the word means

A ) Apologize ✅
B ) Sign
C ) Give up
D ) None of these

83 - Choose the correct meaning of the idiom: 'To plow the sand".

A ) To make the desert bloom
B ) To work in vain ✅
C ) To do a difficult work
D ) None of these

84 - In for a penny in for a -----:

A ) Rupee
B ) Pound ✅
C ) Dollar
D ) Euro