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.

Idiom

1. To pick holes

a.To destroy something

b.To criticise someone

c.To find some reason to quarrel

d.To cut some part of an item

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2. To smell a rat

a.To see signs of plague epidemic

b.To be in a bad mood

c.To suspect foul dealings

d.To get bad small of a bad dead rat

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3. Apple Pie Order

a.Related to fruits packing

b.In random order

c.Related to Dry fruit packing

d.In perfect order

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4. Rolling in Money

a.Very Rich

b.Borrowing money liberally

c.Wasting a lot of money

d.Spending more than income

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5. Left no stone unturned

a.Took no pains

b.used all available means

c.did very irrelevant things

d.Resorted to illegitimated practices

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6. Beating around the bush

a.to break the bushes

b.Avoiding the main topic

c.to beat someone

d.to discuss something

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7. All at sea

a.Drowning

b.Out of reach

c.Very happy

d.Puzzled

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8. By Hook or by Crook

a.By Permission

b.By request

c.By noble means

d.By any means

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9. Play to the Gallery

a.attempt to appeal to popular taste

b.advertise

c.Cater to the public taste

d.depend upon the public for approval

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10. On the wane

a.At rock bottom

b.Growing less

c.Growing More

d.At its Peak

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11. Cry for the Moon

a.To try to have something by bad means

b.To wish for something impossible

c.To wish for something accessible

d.None of above

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12. Hand in Glove

a.Suspicious of each other

b.Very close to each other

c.Constantly fighting

d.Associates in some action

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13. 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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14. Give the cold Shoulder

a.to insult

b.to abuse

c.to Scold

d.to ignore

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15. No love lost

a.Close friendship

b.a love hate relationship

c.cool indifference

d.intense dislike

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16. In Vogue

a.Vaguely used

b.In Fashion

c.Never used

d.Out of use

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17. Spill the beans

a.to throw things

b.to keep a secret

c.to chop vegetables

d.to disclose a secret

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18. Far Cry

a.Out of reach

b.an abstract idea

c.a long way off

d.an impractical idea

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19. Give a wide berth

a.Give publicity to

b.Not Sympathise from

c.Publicly Condemn

d.Keep away from

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20. Backstairs Influence

a.Backing Influence

b.Secret and unfair influence

c.Deserving and proper influence

d.Political Influence

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21. A pig in a poke

a.Accept deal without knowing details

b.Accept deal after analysis

c.Accept deal due to threat

d.Accept deal in pressure

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22. Blow own trumpet

a.Admonishes others

b.Flatters

c.Praises others

d.Praises Himself

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23. 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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24. Crocodile Tears

a.Insincere Tears

b.Very sad

c.True Tears

d.Very angry

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25. A man of straw

a.An unreasonable person

b.A worthy fellow

c.A man of no substance

d.A very active person

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26. A wild goose chase

a.An absurdly hopeless enterprise

b.To be insentive to criticism

c.To speak boastfully of oneself

d.A fuss over a trifling matter

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27. Green Thumb

a.To have a natural interest in gardening

b.One has a green tattoo on thumb

c.One is artistic

d.One's nails are painted green

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28. Take with a pinch of salt

a.Related to food

b.To be a little sad

c.To be a little happy

d.To accept with doubt

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29. Ace in the hole

a.Indifference

b.A secret strength

c.Lucky charm

d.Playing card

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30. 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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31. 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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32. To eat humble pie

a.To go to ruins

b.To spread rapidly

c.To apologize

d.To be earnest

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33. Cry over spilt milk

a.Complain about a loss or failure

b.to cry without any reason

c.to fight with someone

d.to spoil milk

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34. Cut to the quick

a.Annoyed

b.Irritated

c.Surprised

d.Hurt intensely

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35. Go off at a Tangent

a.Go on at great length

b.Forget things in between

c.Become boisterous

d.Change the subject immediately

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36. Have a feet of Clay

a.Hiding something

b.Full of Faults

c.No Noise of Walking

d.Very Innocent

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37. A Snake in the Grass

a.A secret enemy

b.An Unforeseen Danger

c.A treacherous Person

d.An unexpected misfortune

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38. To be hard up

a.To keep starvation away

b.To act excitedly

c.To look depressed

d.To be short of money

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39. Away with the Fairies

a.Very sad

b.On the basis of reality

c.Not facing reality

d.Shocking stage

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40. Bring to light

a.Disclose

b.Highlight

c.Probe

d.Prove

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41. Small Fry

a.Humorous

b.Person or thing of little importance

c.Peon

d.A small creature

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42. Piece of cake

a.a rare occasion

b.Something that is easy to understand or do

c.to eat sweets

d.a slice of cake

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43. Bed of Roses

a.Dull life

b.Very soft bad

c.Full of Joys

d.Belong to something

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44. Turn the Tables

a.To take revenge

b.To reverse the condition

c.Give Warning

d.To welcome

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45. 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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46. In Cold Blood

a.Coldly

b.Deliberately

c.Boldly

d.Ruthlessly

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47. Plough a lonely Furrow

a.Remain unaffected

b.Do without the help of others

c.Remain Non-aligned

d.Survive in isolation

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48. Die in Harness

a.Die while still working

b.Die on a horse back

c.Die with honour

d.Die in the battlefield

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49. Stew in his own juice

a.Suffer due to one's own act

b.Make a stew

c.Boil

d.Suffer in his own juice

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50. To end in smoke

a.To make completely understand

b.To ruin oneself

c.To overcom someone

d.To excite great applause

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