CUET 2025 Idioms and Phrases MCQ Question Answers – 50 MCQs for Practice

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. In Cold Blood

a.Coldly

b.Deliberately

c.Boldly

d.Ruthlessly

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2. Give a wide berth

a.Give publicity to

b.Keep away from

c.Not Sympathise from

d.Publicly Condemn

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3. Small Fry

a.Peon

b.A small creature

c.Humorous

d.Person or thing of little importance

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4. A wild goose chase

a.An absurdly hopeless enterprise

b.To be insentive to criticism

c.A fuss over a trifling matter

d.To speak boastfully of oneself

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5. Ace in the hole

a.Lucky charm

b.Indifference

c.A secret strength

d.Playing card

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6. Cry for the Moon

a.To wish for something impossible

b.To try to have something by bad means

c.None of above

d.To wish for something accessible

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7. To pick holes

a.To destroy something

b.To find some reason to quarrel

c.To cut some part of an item

d.To criticise someone

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8. Play to the Gallery

a.attempt to appeal to popular taste

b.depend upon the public for approval

c.advertise

d.Cater to the public taste

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9. Beating around the bush

a.to discuss something

b.to beat someone

c.to break the bushes

d.Avoiding the main topic

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10. Green Thumb

a.One's nails are painted green

b.One has a green tattoo on thumb

c.To have a natural interest in gardening

d.One is artistic

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11. Cry over spilt milk

a.to cry without any reason

b.to fight with someone

c.Complain about a loss or failure

d.to spoil milk

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12. Bring to light

a.Highlight

b.Prove

c.Probe

d.Disclose

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13. Take with a pinch of salt

a.Related to food

b.To be a little sad

c.To accept with doubt

d.To be a little happy

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14. Piece of cake

a.a rare occasion

b.to eat sweets

c.Something that is easy to understand or do

d.a slice of cake

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15. To cry wolf

a.To turn pale

b.To give false alarm

c.To come to what is most important

d.To be astonished

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16. To be hard up

a.To act excitedly

b.To keep starvation away

c.To look depressed

d.To be short of money

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17. 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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18. To end in smoke

a.To overcom someone

b.To excite great applause

c.To make completely understand

d.To ruin oneself

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19. Stew in his own juice

a.Suffer in his own juice

b.Suffer due to one's own act

c.Make a stew

d.Boil

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20. To smell a rat

a.To get bad small of a bad dead rat

b.To be in a bad mood

c.To see signs of plague epidemic

d.To suspect foul dealings

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21. Crocodile Tears

a.True Tears

b.Very angry

c.Very sad

d.Insincere Tears

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22. Blow own trumpet

a.Praises Himself

b.Praises others

c.Flatters

d.Admonishes others

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23. A Snake in the Grass

a.A treacherous Person

b.A secret enemy

c.An unexpected misfortune

d.An Unforeseen Danger

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24. A man of straw

a.A worthy fellow

b.A man of no substance

c.An unreasonable person

d.A very active person

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25. Rolling in Money

a.Spending more than income

b.Very Rich

c.Borrowing money liberally

d.Wasting a lot of money

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26. Scream blue Murder

a.Suffer from persecution complex

b.Someone is being murdered and has become blue

c.Make a great deal of noise and protest intensely

d.Someone has been murdered with some blue liquid

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27. Bed of Roses

a.Full of Joys

b.Very soft bad

c.Belong to something

d.Dull life

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28. To take to one's heels

a.To act against one's own interest

b.To assault

c.To run away

d.To have concern

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29. Have a feet of Clay

a.Full of Faults

b.Very Innocent

c.Hiding something

d.No Noise of Walking

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30. Backstairs Influence

a.Political Influence

b.Backing Influence

c.Deserving and proper influence

d.Secret and unfair influence

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31. Away with the Fairies

a.Very sad

b.Shocking stage

c.On the basis of reality

d.Not facing reality

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32. Left no stone unturned

a.did very irrelevant things

b.Resorted to illegitimated practices

c.used all available means

d.Took no pains

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33. Hand in Glove

a.Very close to each other

b.Suspicious of each other

c.Constantly fighting

d.Associates in some action

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34. In Vogue

a.Vaguely used

b.Out of use

c.Never used

d.In Fashion

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35. Give the cold Shoulder

a.to insult

b.to Scold

c.to ignore

d.to abuse

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36. To eat humble pie

a.To go to ruins

b.To apologize

c.To spread rapidly

d.To be earnest

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37. No love lost

a.intense dislike

b.a love hate relationship

c.Close friendship

d.cool indifference

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38. Once in a blue moon

a.Moon is blue in colour

b.something that happens everyday

c.Something that happens very rarely

d.many years ago

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39. Spill the beans

a.to disclose a secret

b.to chop vegetables

c.to keep a secret

d.to throw things

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40. Turn the Tables

a.To reverse the condition

b.Give Warning

c.To welcome

d.To take revenge

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41. On the wane

a.Growing More

b.At rock bottom

c.Growing less

d.At its Peak

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42. By Hook or by Crook

a.By any means

b.By request

c.By noble means

d.By Permission

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43. Plough a lonely Furrow

a.Survive in isolation

b.Remain unaffected

c.Remain Non-aligned

d.Do without the help of others

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44. All at sea

a.Out of reach

b.Very happy

c.Puzzled

d.Drowning

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45. Apple Pie Order

a.Related to fruits packing

b.In perfect order

c.In random order

d.Related to Dry fruit packing

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46. Go off at a Tangent

a.Change the subject immediately

b.Go on at great length

c.Forget things in between

d.Become boisterous

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47. A pig in a poke

a.Accept deal due to threat

b.Accept deal without knowing details

c.Accept deal in pressure

d.Accept deal after analysis

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48. Die in Harness

a.Die with honour

b.Die in the battlefield

c.Die while still working

d.Die on a horse back

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49. Cut to the quick

a.Hurt intensely

b.Irritated

c.Annoyed

d.Surprised

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50. Far Cry

a.a long way off

b.Out of reach

c.an abstract idea

d.an impractical idea

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