201. To haul over the coals
A. To put hand in a wrong task
B. To throw into the fire
C. To put to task
D. To say the wrong words
✅ The correct answer is option C.
Idioms And Phrases MCQs
202. Do not imagine that Dharmendra is really sorry that his wife died. Those are only crocodile tears.
A. Pretended sorrow
B. Tears a crocodile
C. A weeping crocodile
D. Mild regret
✅ The correct answer is option A.
203. A jaundiced eye
A. Jealousy
B. A generous view
C. Angry
D. Prejudice
✅ The correct answer is option D.
204. The parliamentary inquiry into the Bofors deal did not bring to light any startling facts.
A. Prove
B. Probe
C. Highlight
D. Disclose
✅ The correct answer is option D.
205. By the skin of one’s teeth
A. Hardly
B. In time
C. Hurriedly
D. Only just
✅ The correct answer is option D.
206. Do not ride rough shod over the poor.
A. give undue importance to
B. hate
C. treat harshly
D. pamper
✅ The correct answer is option C.
207. To talk through one’s hat
A. To speak fluently
B. To talk nonsense
C. To talk wisdom
D. To speak at random
✅ The correct answer is option B.
208. To see eye to eye with
A. To agree
B. To stare fixedly
C. To be angry
D. To take revenge
✅ The correct answer is option A.
209. She was in a brown study and did not notice my entrance.
A. reverie
B. fear
C. sleep
D. dream
✅ The correct answer is option A.
210. He was cool as a cucumber.
A. nervous
B. fainted
C. dead
D. calm and composed
✅ The correct answer is option D.