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Welcome to Online English Section with explanation in AffairsCloud.com. Here we are providing here some important idioms and phrases, which is BASED ON IBPS PO/CLERK/LIC AAO/RRB & SSC CGL EXAM and other competitive exams.
- To snap one’s fingers
1) Restless
2) To give a challenge
3) To be anxious
4) An impractical plan
Answer & Explanation
Answer – 3)
Explanation : To be anxious - A chip off the old block
1) To captive tem unexpectedly
2) To surrender or give up the contest
3) To keep on talking
4) Characteristics of one’s ancestors
Answer & Explanation
Answer – 4)
Explanation : Characteristics of one’s ancestors - To catch somebody on the hop to
1) To catch somebody of guard
2) To reveal secret information
3) To be afraid
4) To send away
Answer & Explanation
Answer – 1)
Explanation : To catch somebody of guard - To save one’s face
1) To indulge in over-refined arguments
2) A lover of woman company
3) to evade disgrace
4) Anything which eludes or deceives
Answer & Explanation
Answer – 3)
Explanation : to evade disgrace - To get into scrape
1) To find oneself in an awkward predicament
2) To lose one’s temper
3) To initiate work in a movement
4) To be perplexed
Answer & Explanation
Answer – 1)
Explanation : To find oneself in an awkward predicament - Hush money
1) Bribe paid to secure silence
2) A task difficult to perform
3) To take aim at
4) Everything without distinction
Answer & Explanation
Answer – 1)
Explanation : Bribe paid to secure silence - To disabuse one’s mind
1) To take reckless risks
2) To suffer humiliation
3) To remove a misapprehension
4) To have a slight encounter
Answer & Explanation
Answer – 3)
Explanation : To remove a misapprehension - To pull one’s socks up
1) To try hard
2) Narrowly
3) To be inconsistent
4) To produce the proof of something
Answer & Explanation
Answer – 1)
Explanation : To try hard - To beggars’ description
1) To be furious
2) To be offended
3) A secret plan
4) Beyond one’s power to describe adequately
Answer & Explanation
Answer – 4)
Explanation : Beyond one’s power to describe adequately - To draw the long bow
1) To make and exaggerated statement
2) Upset one’s plan
3) To come out successful
4) To be actively engagedTo carry on a contest regardless of consequences
Answer & Explanation
Answer – 1)
Explanation : To make and exaggerated statement
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