CUET 2024 Idioms and Phrases MCQ Question Answers – 50 MCQs for Practice

CUET 2024 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 2024 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.

Idiom

1. Cry over spilt milk

a.to fight with someone

b.Complain about a loss or failure

c.to cry without any reason

d.to spoil milk

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2. To take to one's heels

a.To assault

b.To run away

c.To have concern

d.To act against one's own interest

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3. Spill the beans

a.to disclose a secret

b.to throw things

c.to keep a secret

d.to chop vegetables

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4. By Hook or by Crook

a.By request

b.By Permission

c.By any means

d.By noble means

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5. Give a wide berth

a.Publicly Condemn

b.Give publicity to

c.Not Sympathise from

d.Keep away from

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6. To be hard up

a.To be short of money

b.To act excitedly

c.To look depressed

d.To keep starvation away

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7. In Cold Blood

a.Deliberately

b.Boldly

c.Ruthlessly

d.Coldly

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8. A Snake in the Grass

a.An Unforeseen Danger

b.An unexpected misfortune

c.A treacherous Person

d.A secret enemy

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9. Left no stone unturned

a.used all available means

b.Took no pains

c.Resorted to illegitimated practices

d.did very irrelevant things

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10. Rolling in Money

a.Wasting a lot of money

b.Spending more than income

c.Borrowing money liberally

d.Very Rich

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11. To pick holes

a.To find some reason to quarrel

b.To criticise someone

c.To cut some part of an item

d.To destroy something

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12. Apple Pie Order

a.Related to Dry fruit packing

b.In random order

c.In perfect order

d.Related to fruits packing

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13. On the wane

a.At its Peak

b.At rock bottom

c.Growing less

d.Growing More

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14. Take with a pinch of salt

a.To be a little happy

b.To accept with doubt

c.To be a little sad

d.Related to food

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15. To end in smoke

a.To overcom someone

b.To make completely understand

c.To excite great applause

d.To ruin oneself

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16. Scream blue Murder

a.Make a great deal of noise and protest intensely

b.Someone is being murdered and has become blue

c.Someone has been murdered with some blue liquid

d.Suffer from persecution complex

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17. Break the Ice

a.To win a prize

b.To speak first after long silence

c.To do something with courage

d.To win some one heart

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18. Have a feet of Clay

a.Very Innocent

b.Hiding something

c.No Noise of Walking

d.Full of Faults

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19. Green Thumb

a.One is artistic

b.To have a natural interest in gardening

c.One has a green tattoo on thumb

d.One's nails are painted green

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20. All at sea

a.Puzzled

b.Drowning

c.Very happy

d.Out of reach

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21. To cry wolf

a.To give false alarm

b.To turn pale

c.To be astonished

d.To come to what is most important

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22. Plough a lonely Furrow

a.Remain Non-aligned

b.Survive in isolation

c.Do without the help of others

d.Remain unaffected

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23. Small Fry

a.Humorous

b.Peon

c.Person or thing of little importance

d.A small creature

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24. To smell a rat

a.To be in a bad mood

b.To get bad small of a bad dead rat

c.To suspect foul dealings

d.To see signs of plague epidemic

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25. Hand in Glove

a.Very close to each other

b.Associates in some action

c.Suspicious of each other

d.Constantly fighting

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26. To eat humble pie

a.To apologize

b.To go to ruins

c.To spread rapidly

d.To be earnest

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27. Cry for the Moon

a.To wish for something impossible

b.None of above

c.To try to have something by bad means

d.To wish for something accessible

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28. Far Cry

a.a long way off

b.an abstract idea

c.an impractical idea

d.Out of reach

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29. Backstairs Influence

a.Political Influence

b.Secret and unfair influence

c.Deserving and proper influence

d.Backing Influence

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30. Crocodile Tears

a.Insincere Tears

b.Very sad

c.True Tears

d.Very angry

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31. A pig in a poke

a.Accept deal without knowing details

b.Accept deal in pressure

c.Accept deal after analysis

d.Accept deal due to threat

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32. Cut to the quick

a.Irritated

b.Surprised

c.Annoyed

d.Hurt intensely

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33. Piece of cake

a.a rare occasion

b.a slice of cake

c.to eat sweets

d.Something that is easy to understand or do

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34. No love lost

a.a love hate relationship

b.intense dislike

c.cool indifference

d.Close friendship

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35. A man of straw

a.A man of no substance

b.A very active person

c.An unreasonable person

d.A worthy fellow

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36. Away with the Fairies

a.On the basis of reality

b.Very sad

c.Not facing reality

d.Shocking stage

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37. Play to the Gallery

a.advertise

b.depend upon the public for approval

c.attempt to appeal to popular taste

d.Cater to the public taste

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38. Bring to light

a.Highlight

b.Probe

c.Disclose

d.Prove

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39. A wild goose chase

a.An absurdly hopeless enterprise

b.To speak boastfully of oneself

c.To be insentive to criticism

d.A fuss over a trifling matter

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40. In Vogue

a.Vaguely used

b.Never used

c.In Fashion

d.Out of use

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41. Blow own trumpet

a.Flatters

b.Praises Himself

c.Admonishes others

d.Praises others

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42. Once in a blue moon

a.something that happens everyday

b.Something that happens very rarely

c.Moon is blue in colour

d.many years ago

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43. Die in Harness

a.Die with honour

b.Die while still working

c.Die on a horse back

d.Die in the battlefield

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44. Beating around the bush

a.Avoiding the main topic

b.to discuss something

c.to beat someone

d.to break the bushes

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45. Stew in his own juice

a.Boil

b.Suffer due to one's own act

c.Make a stew

d.Suffer in his own juice

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46. Bed of Roses

a.Full of Joys

b.Very soft bad

c.Belong to something

d.Dull life

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47. Turn the Tables

a.Give Warning

b.To take revenge

c.To welcome

d.To reverse the condition

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48. Give the cold Shoulder

a.to Scold

b.to insult

c.to ignore

d.to abuse

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49. Go off at a Tangent

a.Forget things in between

b.Change the subject immediately

c.Become boisterous

d.Go on at great length

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50. Ace in the hole

a.A secret strength

b.Lucky charm

c.Indifference

d.Playing card

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