Dear Students, SSC CGL Tier-1 Exam will be held from 1st August 2017 to 20 August 2017. You need to practice a lot in order to achieve 40+ marks in the English Section. We are providing quizzes which include sentence improvement, error detection, idioms, one-word substitution, reading comprehension, vocabulary related questions etc. we have also provided study notes on English for SSC CGL 2017 Exam. Practice all these questions, if any doubt, post your queries in the comment section, we will answer surely.
Directions (1-15): 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.
Q1. Flogging a dead horse
(a) repeating our request
(b) making him see reason
(c) beating about the bush
(d) wasting time in useless effort
Q2. Face the music
(a) get finished
(b) get reprimanded
(c) feel sorry
(d) listen to the music
Q3. Play it safe
(a) avoid risks
(b) play a game peacefully
(c) play light games
(d) play for pleasure
Q4. Play second fiddle to somebody
(a) to fiddle somebody
(b) be subordinate in position
(c) unnecessary argument
(d) be in someone’s company
Q5. Plough a lone furrow
(a) to play the best card
(b) to play the last card
(c) do something that achieves the desired success
(d) to achieve something singlehandedly
Q6. A prophet of doom
(a) a godman who bless
(b) prediction of goodness
(c) a person who holds and spreads pessimistic views
(d) a person who holds the world guilty
Q7. To pull weight
(a) a dark weight
(b) a blemish in otherwise good work
(c) multicolored decoration
(d) to do fair share of work
Q8. A pyrrhic victory
(a) a victory which is not possible
(b) unfair victory
(c) a victory that brings more loss than gains
(d) a win even after losing
Q9. A quid pro quo
(a) something done in revenge or retaliation
(b) give up
(c) selfless service
(d) selfish act of revenge
Q10. Under a cloud
(a) experiencing cloudy weather
(b) enjoying favourable luck
(c) under suspicion
(d) under observation
Q11. play one's cards right
(a) losing the last penny in gambling
(b) a game of cards
(c) an ineffective card game
(d) to maneuver skillfully
Q12. In high spirits
(a) In good position
(b) Drunk
(c) Cheerful
(d) Shocked
Q13. Token strike
(a) total strike
(b) carefully planned strike
(c) short strike held as warning
(d) sudden call of strike
Q14. Sweeping statement
(a) rash statement
(b) unpremeditated statement
(c) thoughtless statement
(d) generalized statements
Q15. To a hair
(a) vaguely
(b) to some extent
(c) exactly
(d) not the like of
Q1. Flogging a dead horse
(a) repeating our request
(b) making him see reason
(c) beating about the bush
(d) wasting time in useless effort
Q2. Face the music
(a) get finished
(b) get reprimanded
(c) feel sorry
(d) listen to the music
Q3. Play it safe
(a) avoid risks
(b) play a game peacefully
(c) play light games
(d) play for pleasure
Q4. Play second fiddle to somebody
(a) to fiddle somebody
(b) be subordinate in position
(c) unnecessary argument
(d) be in someone’s company
Q5. Plough a lone furrow
(a) to play the best card
(b) to play the last card
(c) do something that achieves the desired success
(d) to achieve something singlehandedly
Q6. A prophet of doom
(a) a godman who bless
(b) prediction of goodness
(c) a person who holds and spreads pessimistic views
(d) a person who holds the world guilty
Q7. To pull weight
(a) a dark weight
(b) a blemish in otherwise good work
(c) multicolored decoration
(d) to do fair share of work
Q8. A pyrrhic victory
(a) a victory which is not possible
(b) unfair victory
(c) a victory that brings more loss than gains
(d) a win even after losing
Q9. A quid pro quo
(a) something done in revenge or retaliation
(b) give up
(c) selfless service
(d) selfish act of revenge
Q10. Under a cloud
(a) experiencing cloudy weather
(b) enjoying favourable luck
(c) under suspicion
(d) under observation
Q11. play one's cards right
(a) losing the last penny in gambling
(b) a game of cards
(c) an ineffective card game
(d) to maneuver skillfully
Q12. In high spirits
(a) In good position
(b) Drunk
(c) Cheerful
(d) Shocked
Q13. Token strike
(a) total strike
(b) carefully planned strike
(c) short strike held as warning
(d) sudden call of strike
Q14. Sweeping statement
(a) rash statement
(b) unpremeditated statement
(c) thoughtless statement
(d) generalized statements
Q15. To a hair
(a) vaguely
(b) to some extent
(c) exactly
(d) not the like of
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