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Phrases and Idioms

1.	The expression ‘after one’s own heart’ means----

To be in low spirit

With complete devotion

To one’s own liking

To be in high spirti

2.	Choose the appropriate meaning of the idiom ‘Swan song”.

First work

Last work

Middle work

Early work

3.	All his dreams were nipped in the bud. Here nipped in the bud’ means-----

Fulfilled

Were like buds of floower

cherished well

Destroyed at the beginning

4.	Only those who are not serious to their success work by ---- and starts.

long odds

against time

every inch

fits

5.	‘To smell a rat’ means:

to smell a bad smell

To suspect a trick or deceit

to misunderstand

to have dirty ways

6.	Not many people can commit such a heinous crime in cold blood. ---- what dose the italicized idiom above mean?

in cool brain and calculated thought

so patiently and thoughtfully

so impatiently and thoughtlessly

stirred by sudden emotion

7.	To read between the lines’ means-----

To read carefully

To read only some lines

To read quickly to save time

To read carefully to find out any hidden meaning

8.	Find out the correct meaning of ‘A hard nut to crack’

Difficult

Not easy

Tartap

Difficulty

9.	To read between the lines----

to concentrate

to suspect

to read carefully

to grasp the hidden meaning

10.	Appearances can often be liable to mislead. The underlined phrase means------

defective

lucrative

repulsive

deceptive

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