Q10. Each sentence consists of an underlined idiom and is followed by four options. Select and write the one
which is closest to the underlined one in meaning.
(1) The manager came down heavily on his assistant like a ton of bricks for being careless.
(a) Give him the elbow
(b) Gave him the chop
(c) Gave him a rocket
(d) Put him under a microscope
(ii) His jokes about Salman Khan went down like a lead balloon.
(a) Came a cropper
(b) laid an egg
(c) Tickled their funny bones
(d) Got on their nerves
(iii) My uncle had the gift of the gab. People loved to listen to his speeches.
(a) Talked nineteen to the dozen
(b) Had a fee in his bonnet
(c) Kissed the Blarney stone
(d) Verbal diarrhea
(iv) Jenny is very happy because her daughter in law is in the club for the first time.
(a) Full of beans
(b) Having a bun in the oven
(c) Has butterflies in her stomach
(d) As cool as a cucumber.
(v) You have to go in a jiffy if you want to meet him.
(a) in a huff
(b) At a snail's pace
(c) In the blink of an eye
(d) Before you can say jack Robinson
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Q10. Each sentence consists of an underlined idiom and is followed by four options. Select and write the one
which is closest to the underlined one in meaning.
(1) The manager came down heavily on his assistant like a ton of bricks for being careless.
(a) Give him the elbow
(b) Gave him the chop
(c) Gave him a rocket
(d) Put him under a microscope
(ii) His jokes about Salman Khan went down like a lead balloon.
(a) Came a cropper
(b) laid an egg
(c) Tickled their funny bones
(d) Got on their nerves
(iii) My uncle had the gift of the gab. People loved to listen to his speeches.
(a) Talked nineteen to the dozen
(b) Had a fee in his bonnet
(c) Kissed the Blarney stone
(d) Verbal diarrhea
(iv) Jenny is very happy because her daughter in law is in the club for the first time.
(a) Full of beans
(b) Having a bun in the oven
(c) Has butterflies in her stomach
(d) As cool as a cucumber.
(v) You have to go in a jiffy if you want to meet him.
(a) in a huff
(b) At a snail's pace
(c) In the blink of an eye
(d) Before you can say jack Robinson
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