Idioms and Phrases Quiz For SSC Exams 2018-19: 23 January

January 23, 2019    


SSC CGL,  SSC CPO, SSC Stenographer 2018 Exams are big opportunities to serve in a govt job and to live in clover. The Commission has already released exam dates for three SSC exams to be conducted in the month of January & February 2019 among which one major exam is SSC Stenographer Exam 2018, to be held from 5 to 7 February 2019. Also SSC CGL and CPO Exam dates can surprise you anytime soon. English Section carries a heavy weightage in SSC CPO & SSC Stenographer exams. Also SSC CGL is no exception. Consolidating the level, priorities and type of questions, Daily English Quiz on SSCADDA & ADDA247 App is a productive outcome of our experts' efforts to sharpen your practice skills.

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Be a part of this revised study plan, visit SSCADDA website regularly to add up each day effort in your practice. Today, in this English quiz we are providing 15 English Idioms and Phrases Questions and Solutions to make your practice effective. Attempt this quiz and prepare yourself flawlessly. We wish you good luck for the upcoming Exams.

Directions (1-15): In the following questions, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/phrase.



Q1. Be in the swim
(a) Aware of current affairs or events
(b) To refuse to do what someone else wants
(c) To pursue a line of thought or course of action that is misguided
(d) Someone who is completely crazy
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Ans.(a)


Q2. Featherbrained
(a) To show that you do not support something
(b) Silly or often forgetting things
(c) To be over excited
(d) To take a balanced diet
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Ans.(b)


Q3. Hear it on grapevine
(a) To hear stories regularly
(b) To listen news carefully
(c) Acquire information by rumour
(d) To continue to listen songs
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Ans.(c)

Q4. A wee bit 
(a) To a very small degree
(b) A withered thing
(c) To a larger extent
(d) Bitterly hostile
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Ans.(a)


Q5. Bend over backwards
(a) To choose between two alternative choices
(b) To be in extreme anxiety
(c) To go out of one's way to do something for someone
(d) To bend one’s body the way one wants
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Ans.(c)

Q6. Can’t cut the mustard.
(a) Someone who is not adequate enough to compete or participate
(b) Angry about something that occurred in the past
(c) Someone who is not able to walk properly
(d) Someone who doesn’t believe in God
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Ans.(a) 



Q7. Gall and wormwood
(a) Hateful
(b) To be ready
(c) To gamble everything you have
(d) Very intimate friends
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Ans.(a) 



 Q8. Think the world of 
(a) To go on a world trip
(b) Admire someone very much
(c) To earn excessively
(d) Not for any reason
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Ans.(b)



Q9. Funny farm
(a) A mental institutional facility
(b) To laugh at someone
(c) To make funny expressions
(d) To get funny remarks
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Ans.(a) 



Q10. Get your walking papers
(a) Compromise
(b) Get fired from the job
(c) To be received gracefully
(d) To sign on papers
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Ans.(b)




Q11. Know the ropes
(a) Unable to understand
(b) Main support
(c) To understand the details
(d) To climb on a rope
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Ans.(c)


Q12. Free and easy
(a) Calm and relaxed
(b) From this time into the future.
(c) To get free commodity
(d) To recover from illness
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Ans.(a)

Q13. Level playing field
(a) To play in the field.
(b) A fair competition where no side has an advantage
(c) Energetic
(d) To promote at a higher position
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Ans.(b)



Q14. For the time being
(a) Temporarily
(b) Forever
(c) To leave from a place before time
(d) To be punctual
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Ans.(a)



Q15. From stem to stern
(a) all the way from the front of a ship to the back
(b) from morning to evening
(c) top of a plant to its roots
(d) lose pleasantness to become strict
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Ans.(a)


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