IDIOMS & PHRASES – PRACTICE SET-8 – SOLVED

1. Button her lip
A) Tell us more      B) Stop talking
C) Invite us too      D) Enjoy herself

2. Invent cock and bull stories
A) Delightful fables      B) Eco-friendly accounts
C) Absurd and unlikely stories      D) Credible tales

3. Weal and woe
A) Friends and enemies      B) Be in danger
C) Adversity      D) Good times and bad times

4. Call in question
A) Summon as a witness      B) Doubtful
C) Prove a theory      D) Challenge

5. Make both ends meet
A) Live within means      B) Achieve a solution
C) Live among people      D) End of the road

6. Cheek by jowl
A) Very close together      B) Arguing
C) Teasing one another      D) Avoiding one another

7. Beyond the pale
A) Unreasonable or unacceptable      B) Beyond redemption
C) Full of rhetoric      D) Distasteful

8. Blow one’s own trumpet
A) Play some music      B) Surprise oneself
C) Praise oneself      D) Condone oneself

9. To bury the hatchet
A) To make peace      B) To dig the ground
C) To negotiate      D) To make war

10. Selling like hot cakes
A) To have a good season      B) To become as planned
C) To have a very slow sale      D) To have a very good sale

11. Be down with
A) Suffering from      B) In grief with
C) In pain with      D) Aching with

12. Fair-weather friend
A) Honest only when easy and convenient      B) Truthful only when easy and convenient
C) Supports only when easy and convenient      D) Temporary only when easy and convenient

13. Pull together
A) Become friends      B) Work harmoniously
C) Be successful      D) Live happily

14. For keeps
A) Himself      B) Away
C) Forever      D) Hid

15. Pale into insignificance
A) Seemed less important      B) Was less exciting
C) Was less hectic      D) Was dull and pale

ANSWER KEY

Solution with explanation

1. Option ‘B’ (Stop talking). BUTTON = fasten with buttons; stop talking

3. Option ‘D’ (Good times and bad times). WEAL = happiness; WOW = big problems or troubles

6. Option ‘A’ (Very close together). JOWL = the loose skin and flesh under the jaw

7. Option ‘A’ (Unreasonable or unacceptable). PALE = The area enclosed by a fence or boundary

9. Option ‘A’ (To make peace). BURY = put or hide underground. HATCHET = a small axe with a short handle for use in one hand

13. Option ‘B’ (Work harmoniously)

HARMONIOUSLY = friendly and peacefully

PULL TOGETHER = to work hard as a group in order to achieve something; e.g.

We don’t have much time but if we all pull together we should get the job done.

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