CUET 2025 Idioms and Phrases MCQ Question Answers for Various Entrance Exams

Idioms and Phrases MCQs– Practice the Idioms and Phrases MCQs suitable for various Entrance Exams including CUET. Idioms and Phrases questions are very helpful for various competitive exams. CUET is a Common University Entrance Test that is now mandatory to take admission to Central Universities in India. Idioms and Phrases questions are based on the latest CUET exam pattern 2025 and other entrance exams, so that you can have a fair idea about exam trends that will be followed for various entrance exams.

Choose the correct meaning of the given idiom from the options

Q. In each of the following questions an idiomatic expression and its four possible meanings are given. Find out the Correct Meaning of the idiomatic expression and mark the number of that meaning as your answer.

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1. Apple Pie Order

a.In perfect order

b.Related to fruits packing

c.In random order

d.Related to Dry fruit packing

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2. To take to one's heels

a.To have concern

b.To run away

c.To act against one's own interest

d.To assault

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3. To be hard up

a.To look depressed

b.To keep starvation away

c.To act excitedly

d.To be short of money

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4. No love lost

a.cool indifference

b.Close friendship

c.a love hate relationship

d.intense dislike

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5. To end in smoke

a.To overcom someone

b.To make completely understand

c.To ruin oneself

d.To excite great applause

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6. Blow own trumpet

a.Praises Himself

b.Admonishes others

c.Praises others

d.Flatters

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7. All at sea

a.Puzzled

b.Out of reach

c.Drowning

d.Very happy

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8. Piece of cake

a.a slice of cake

b.a rare occasion

c.Something that is easy to understand or do

d.to eat sweets

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9. Play to the Gallery

a.Cater to the public taste

b.attempt to appeal to popular taste

c.depend upon the public for approval

d.advertise

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10. To cry wolf

a.To be astonished

b.To give false alarm

c.To come to what is most important

d.To turn pale

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11. Bed of Roses

a.Very soft bad

b.Dull life

c.Belong to something

d.Full of Joys

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12. To smell a rat

a.To be in a bad mood

b.To see signs of plague epidemic

c.To get bad small of a bad dead rat

d.To suspect foul dealings

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13. Give a wide berth

a.Not Sympathise from

b.Give publicity to

c.Keep away from

d.Publicly Condemn

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14. Go off at a Tangent

a.Change the subject immediately

b.Go on at great length

c.Become boisterous

d.Forget things in between

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15. A wild goose chase

a.To be insentive to criticism

b.A fuss over a trifling matter

c.To speak boastfully of oneself

d.An absurdly hopeless enterprise

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16. Once in a blue moon

a.many years ago

b.something that happens everyday

c.Something that happens very rarely

d.Moon is blue in colour

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17. Rolling in Money

a.Very Rich

b.Wasting a lot of money

c.Spending more than income

d.Borrowing money liberally

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18. Small Fry

a.Peon

b.Humorous

c.A small creature

d.Person or thing of little importance

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19. Cry over spilt milk

a.to cry without any reason

b.Complain about a loss or failure

c.to spoil milk

d.to fight with someone

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20. Cut to the quick

a.Irritated

b.Annoyed

c.Hurt intensely

d.Surprised

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21. A Snake in the Grass

a.A treacherous Person

b.An unexpected misfortune

c.A secret enemy

d.An Unforeseen Danger

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22. Spill the beans

a.to keep a secret

b.to chop vegetables

c.to disclose a secret

d.to throw things

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23. Turn the Tables

a.To reverse the condition

b.To welcome

c.To take revenge

d.Give Warning

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24. Bring to light

a.Disclose

b.Probe

c.Prove

d.Highlight

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25. By Hook or by Crook

a.By any means

b.By noble means

c.By Permission

d.By request

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26. Give the cold Shoulder

a.to Scold

b.to ignore

c.to abuse

d.to insult

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27. Green Thumb

a.One is artistic

b.One's nails are painted green

c.To have a natural interest in gardening

d.One has a green tattoo on thumb

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28. A pig in a poke

a.Accept deal after analysis

b.Accept deal without knowing details

c.Accept deal due to threat

d.Accept deal in pressure

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29. Far Cry

a.an abstract idea

b.a long way off

c.Out of reach

d.an impractical idea

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30. Left no stone unturned

a.Took no pains

b.did very irrelevant things

c.Resorted to illegitimated practices

d.used all available means

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31. Plough a lonely Furrow

a.Survive in isolation

b.Do without the help of others

c.Remain Non-aligned

d.Remain unaffected

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32. To eat humble pie

a.To apologize

b.To be earnest

c.To go to ruins

d.To spread rapidly

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33. Backstairs Influence

a.Secret and unfair influence

b.Backing Influence

c.Political Influence

d.Deserving and proper influence

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34. Break the Ice

a.To win some one heart

b.To do something with courage

c.To win a prize

d.To speak first after long silence

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35. Stew in his own juice

a.Suffer in his own juice

b.Make a stew

c.Suffer due to one's own act

d.Boil

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36. In Vogue

a.Vaguely used

b.Out of use

c.Never used

d.In Fashion

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37. To pick holes

a.To criticise someone

b.To find some reason to quarrel

c.To cut some part of an item

d.To destroy something

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38. Cry for the Moon

a.To wish for something impossible

b.To wish for something accessible

c.To try to have something by bad means

d.None of above

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39. Have a feet of Clay

a.Very Innocent

b.Full of Faults

c.Hiding something

d.No Noise of Walking

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40. Die in Harness

a.Die in the battlefield

b.Die on a horse back

c.Die while still working

d.Die with honour

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41. Beating around the bush

a.to beat someone

b.to discuss something

c.Avoiding the main topic

d.to break the bushes

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42. A man of straw

a.An unreasonable person

b.A very active person

c.A worthy fellow

d.A man of no substance

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43. Scream blue Murder

a.Someone is being murdered and has become blue

b.Make a great deal of noise and protest intensely

c.Suffer from persecution complex

d.Someone has been murdered with some blue liquid

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44. Ace in the hole

a.Indifference

b.Lucky charm

c.A secret strength

d.Playing card

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45. Away with the Fairies

a.Shocking stage

b.Very sad

c.On the basis of reality

d.Not facing reality

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46. Take with a pinch of salt

a.To accept with doubt

b.To be a little sad

c.To be a little happy

d.Related to food

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47. Hand in Glove

a.Very close to each other

b.Constantly fighting

c.Associates in some action

d.Suspicious of each other

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48. In Cold Blood

a.Ruthlessly

b.Boldly

c.Coldly

d.Deliberately

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49. Crocodile Tears

a.True Tears

b.Very sad

c.Very angry

d.Insincere Tears

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50. On the wane

a.At rock bottom

b.Growing More

c.Growing less

d.At its Peak

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