Practice Idioms and Phrases Questions and Answers

• I thought the illness was going to take him, but now he is ______________.
• The agent did a _______________ on me and took away my hard-earned money. I should have been more careful.
• Select the most appropriate meaning of the given idiom.   Raise the bar
• Select the most appropriate meaning of the given idiom. Bang for the buck
• After their (A)/long argument the two brothers (B)/have at last (C)/worried the hatchet (D). No error (E)
• Australia destroyed the board (A)/in the swimming, (B)/with gold medals (C)/in every race (D). No error (E)
• To get bent out of shape
• I'm sure you understand that we can't have a mere inspector still wet behind the ears running a case of this importance.
• Downhill sports can easily cost you an apple of your eye without even seeing a mountain.
• The debut disc by this Burlington act is a straight-ahead return to the kind of woman-made tuneage that was all the game five, six years ago....
• But the point here is we cannot blow hot and cold on crime. It's either we stand up for law and order and justice, or we buckle under the crime wave....
• an idea that is based on feeling and for which there is no proof
• Select the most appropriate meaning of the given idiom. Back to square one        
• Get cold feet
• Play it by the ear
• The bee’s knees
• On the ball
• Have sticky fingers
• Break the bank
• His determination to spice up his story makes it sometimes read like a dime novel about a drink-crazed mafia don.
• Whoop it up
• With a vengeance
• Up against the wall
• Reap the whirlwind
• Of the first water
• Weather the storm
• Spin your wheels
• Wear the green willow
• Wild and woolly
• Give it a whirl
• Killer of prophet 
• A person who preserves skin of animals
• A government by the military class
• Obsession for wine
• A person’s last performance
• Eating mud
• Kiling of birds
• Love for dogs
• Lack of civic-mindedness or of patriotism
• Study of snakes