Q. Four alternatives are given for the idiom/phrase in quotation marks in the sentence. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of idiom/phrase.

He is an interesting speaker but tends to "go off at a tangent".

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Q. Four alternatives are given for the idiom/phrase in quotation marks in the sentence. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of idiom/phrase.

He sold his house for a "song".

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Q. Four alternatives are given for the idiom/phrase in quotation marks in the sentence. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of idiom/phrase.

Despite the trust bestowed on the minister he turned out to be "a snake in the grass" during the revolution.

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Q. Four alternatives are given for the idiom/phrase in quotation marks in the sentence. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of idiom/phrase.

Women should be paid the same as men when they do the same job, for, surely "what is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander".

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Q. Four alternatives are given for the idiom/phrase in quotation marks in the sentence. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of idiom/phrase.

The party stalwarts have advised the President "to take it lying down" for a while.

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Q. Four alternatives are given for the idiom/phrase in quotation marks in the sentence. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of idiom/phrase.

The thief "took to his heels" when he saw a policeman on the beat.

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Q. Four alternatives are given for the idiom/phrase in quotation marks in the sentence. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of idiom/phrase.

He "struck several bad patches" before he made good.

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Q. Four alternatives are given for the idiom/phrase in quotation marks in the sentence. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of idiom/phrase.

The accounts of the murder "made her flesh creep".

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Q. Four alternatives are given for the idiom/phrase in quotation marks in the sentence. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of idiom/phrase.

How long will the people "put up with" the increasing economic hardships?

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Q. Four alternatives are given for the idiom/phrase in quotation marks in the sentence. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of idiom/phrase.

In the organised society of today no individual or nation can "plough a lonely furrow".

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Q. Four alternatives are given for the idiom/phrase in quotation marks in the sentence. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of idiom/phrase.

It was he who put a "spoke in my wheel".

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Q. Four alternatives are given for the idiom/phrase in quotation marks in the sentence. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of idiom/phrase.

It is no longer easy to "strike gold" in Shakespeare's research since much work has already been done on him.

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Q. Four alternatives are given for the idiom/phrase in quotation marks in the sentence. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of idiom/phrase.

Sanjay is "very different about" passing the Civil Services Examination this year.

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Q. Four alternatives are given for the idiom/phrase in quotation marks in the sentence. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of idiom/phrase.

Why must you look a "gift horse in the mouth" ?

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Q. Four alternatives are given for the idiom/phrase in quotation marks in the sentence. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of idiom/phrase.

Dowry is a "burning question" of the day.

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Q. Four alternatives are given for the idiom/phrase in quotation marks in the sentence. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of idiom/phrase.

Leaders should not only make speeches they should also be prepared to "to bell the cat".

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Q. Four alternatives are given for the idiom/phrase in quotation marks in the sentence. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of idiom/phrase.

The popularity of the yesterday's superstar is "on the wane".

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Q. Four alternatives are given for the idiom/phrase in quotation marks in the sentence. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of idiom/phrase.

He is leaving the country "for a good".

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Q. Four alternatives are given for the idiom/phrase in quotation marks in the sentence. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of idiom/phrase.

Having sold off his factory, he is "now a gentleman at large".

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Q. Four alternatives are given for the idiom/phrase in quotation marks in the sentence. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of idiom/phrase.

Though he has lot of money, yet all his plans are "built upon sand".

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