MCQ on Idioms and Phrases

MCQ on English

51- ‘Palmy days’

(A) happy days

(B) middle days

(C) bad days

(D) old days

 

52- Monalisha shed …………………….to get her way out with her mother.

(A) crocodile tears

(B) to cry wolf

(C) to rat race

(D) a cat and a dog life

 

53- I have recently changed my job and I am going to have teething problems.

(A) difficulties at the end

(B) difficulties at the start

(C) problem with my teeth

(D) none of the above

 

54- To lose one’s head

(A) to go mad

(B) to become nervous

(C) to become confused and overexcited

(D) to lose the balance

 

55- To throw down the glove

(A) to reject the prize

(B) to accept defeat

(C) to resort to wrong tactics

(D) to give a challenge

 

56- Apple of one’s eye

(A) decidedly

(B) something specially dear

(C) affectionately

(D) untrue

 

57- Look blue

(A) search for

(B) look disappointed

(C) be deferred

(D) sudden and rapid advances

 

58- Better late than never

(A) stop working late

(B) to get something late

(C) better to arrive late than not to come at all

(D) none of the above

 

59- Break a leg

(A)  fell ill

(B) show down

(C) don’t be so critical

(D) good luck

 

60- Get out of hand

(A) get out of control

(B) trust on someone says

(C) don’t give up

(D) none of the above

 

 

ANSWERS:

51-(A), 52-(A), 53-(B), 54-(C),5 5-(D), 56-(B), 57-(B), 58-(C), 59-(D), 60-(A)