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SSC CGL Idioms — practice questions

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What is meant when someone says it is raining cats and dogs?Read the answer and worked solution →Before a stage show, the idiom break a leg is said to wish a performer what?Read the answer and worked solution →What does the idiom kick the bucket mean?Read the answer and worked solution →What does the idiom leave no stone unturned mean?Read the answer and worked solution →A person who sheds crocodile tears is showing what?Read the answer and worked solution →The Arabic phrase fi nafs al-markeb matches which English idiom?Read the answer and worked solution →The Polish equivalent of kick the bucket literally means what?Read the answer and worked solution →The French idiom casser sa pipe, for dying, literally means what?Read the answer and worked solution →The Italian idiom tirare le cuoia, for dying, literally means what?Read the answer and worked solution →How does an idiom's meaning relate to the words inside it?Read the answer and worked solution →Idioms are usually said to contradict which principle in linguistics?Read the answer and worked solution →In phraseology an idiom is a sub-type of which unit?Read the answer and worked solution →Read as an idiom, what does Fred kicked the bucket tell us?Read the answer and worked solution →Who introduced the term irreversible binomial in 1954?Read the answer and worked solution →The word spick survives only in which fixed expression?Read the answer and worked solution →The rare word abet is now mostly found in which legal pair?Read the answer and worked solution →What does give or take mean when attached to a number?Read the answer and worked solution →The phrase give and take describes which attitude?Read the answer and worked solution →The noun phrase five and dime refers to what?Read the answer and worked solution →The verb phrase nickel and dime stands for what?Read the answer and worked solution →In the binomial short and sweet, both words are which part of speech?Read the answer and worked solution →The binomial do or die is built from which class of words?Read the answer and worked solution →Why is chips and dip fixed in order but not an idiom?Read the answer and worked solution →Null and void is a stock phrase mainly used in which field?Read the answer and worked solution →A typical phrasal verb is a verb followed by which element?Read the answer and worked solution →Why can the meaning of a phrasal verb not be guessed from its parts?Read the answer and worked solution →The term phrasal verb was popularized in which 1925 work by Logan Pearsall Smith?Read the answer and worked solution →Which pair contains two particle verbs?Read the answer and worked solution →In the sentence She handed it in, what is the word in?Read the answer and worked solution →When the object is a single pronoun, where does the particle usually go?Read the answer and worked solution →

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What is meant when someone says it is raining cats and dogs?

  1. It rains very lightly
  2. It rains very heavily
  3. It rains after sunshine
  4. It rains with thunder
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Correct answer: B. It rains very heavily

The idiom describes rain that falls intensely, not animals falling.

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Before a stage show, the idiom break a leg is said to wish a performer what?

  1. A speedy recovery
  2. A long holiday
  3. Good luck to you
  4. A cash reward
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Correct answer: C. Good luck to you

Though it sounds like wishing injury, break a leg means good luck.

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What does the idiom kick the bucket mean?

  1. To lose temper
  2. To run away
  3. To start a fight
  4. To pass away
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Correct answer: D. To pass away

Kick the bucket is a fixed idiom meaning to die.

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