English Idioms and Phrases : All SSC Exams Previous Years Objective Solved Questions Set 25

 

Q.1:- Draw a blank ?

1. Paint something
2. Find no favour
3. Oblige someone
4. Teach someone

Q.2:- Cheek by jowl ?

1. Very close together
2. Arguing
3. Teasing one another
4. Avoiding one another

Q.3:- Hope against hope ?

1. Think wishfully from time to time
2. Hoped with good reason
3. Nurture an impossible hope
4. Pretend to hope

Q.4:- Scot free ?

1. Unlimited
2. Unpunished
3. To freedom
4. Unrepentant

Q.5:- Couch potato ?

1. An old person who has old fashioned ideas
2. A person who prefers to watch television
3. A person who does not seem very friendly
4. Someone who stays calm and does not show their emotions

Q.6:- Invent cock and bull stories ?

1. Delightful fables
2. Eco-friendly accounts
3. Absurd and unlikely stories
4. Credible tales

Q.7:- Put up the shutters ?

1. Went out of business
2. Experienced a downside
3. Sold of assets
4. Changed ownership

Q.8:- Cut a sorry figure ?

1. Did not stand straight
2. Apologized for his remarks
3. Created a wrong impression
4. Made a poor impression

Q.9:- Alive and kicking ?

1. Playing football
2. Dying
3. Becoming old
4. In good health

Q.10:- At loose ends ?

1. Tie two loose ends of a thread
2. Keep options open
3. In an uncertain situation
4. Repay debt

Q.11:- Bad blood ?

1. War
2. Ill feeling
3. Threatening attitude
4. In an infected state of being

Q.12:- Raj couldn’t pay the bill, so he asked the owner to put it on the cuff ?

1. On credit
2. Against his credit card
3. In his bank account
4. In his friend’s account

Q.13:- If you are fair and square in your work you will definitely prosper ?

1. Active
2. Honest
3. Business like
4. Authoritative

Q.14:- The effort to trace the culprit was a wild goose chase ?

1. Fruitful hunting
2. Futile search
3. Ideal seeking
4. Genuine effort

Q.15:- I am done for ?

1. Ruined
2. Rewarded
3. Answered
4. Questioned

Q.16:- he didn’t tell me directly, but reading between the lines. I think he is not happy with them ?

1. Reading slowly and haltingly
2. Understanding the sense rather than the actual words
3. Understanding the meaning of words and not the sense
4. Reading superficially

Q.17:- to run across ?

1. To have an appointed meeting
2. To meet by chance
3. To run in the playground
4. To run very fast

Q.18:- Have the last laugh ?

1. Be of a cheerful nature
2. Laugh only after understanding something
3. To be victorious at the end of an argument
4. To crack the final joke

Q.19:- The young and the old sat cheek by jowl in the large audience ?

1. Very near
2. Very far
3. Tongue tied
4. Irritated

Q.20:- he is so furious that he would go through fire and water to revenge himself on his foe ?

1. Approach everybody for help
2. Avail himself of any opportunity
3. Use any conceivable method
4. Undergo any risk

Q.21:- He was given Hobson’s choice by the employer ?

1. Excellent choice
2. No real choice at all
3. Choice to live or die
4. First choice

Q.22:- She goes to her mother’s house off and on ?

1. Frequently
2. Rarely
3. Occasionally
4. Sometimes

Q.23:- In the long run ?

1. Permanently
2. Universally
3. Occasionally
4. Ultimately

Q.24:- to emerge out of thin air means to ?

1. Appear suddenly
2. Descend gradually
3. Fall down quickly
4. Enter from space

Q.25:- he expects his subordinates to be always at his back and call ?

1. At rest
2. At work
3. At his disposal
4. At their desks