Practice Idioms and Phrases Questions and Answers

• Bite your tongue
• Jump the gun
• Slap on the Wrist
• Go to the dogs
• The once in a decade leadership transition is set to begin in earnest in July. 
• Last month, the pre-induction trials were put of by two weeks due to bad weather alerts.
• The delay will not be affect the scheduled delivery of the aircraft carrier to the Indian Navy.
• We are on talks with several Indian companies for setting up a joint venture to provide the full range of post-guarantee maintenance and repair services....
• At a meeting of State Education Ministers here, a majority off the States supported a common entrance test that would save the students from writing mult...
• Crocodile tears
• Show a clean pairs of heels
• Crocodile tears
• Show a clean pairs of heels
• in good or bad books
• A snake in the grass
• To put down in black and white
• To scold someone
• Persuade someone gradually or gently to do something
• Choose the opposite word.
• In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/phrase.  face the music...
• lame duck
• keep a civil tongue
• zero hour
• Burglars broke into our neighbour’s house last night.
• a repeated passage in music
• enlarge upon or add detail to something
• make full use of and derive benefit from a resource
• Ask for or request earnestly
• Widely known and esteemed
• They’re scattered P- and are not the Q- traditional Christmas lights R- throughout the old town 
• Break a leg
• Miss the boat
• Pull yourself together
• Under the weather
• A perfect storm
• Harass, as with questions or requests
• to be perplexed or confounded
• A formal expression of disapproval
• Usual practices associated with a particular society, place, or set of circumstances.
• Don’t give her the cold __________.