EXERCISE-24
Choose the exact meaning of the idioms/phrases.
1.Make up
(a) get about
(b) leave
(c) reveal
(d) reconcile
2.To get along
(a) to manage to
(b) to go with
(c) to leave
(d) work helplessly
3. Make too much of
(a) underestimate
(b) exploit
(c) overestimate
(d) ask to do too much
4. Lay bare
(a) expose
(b) take off all clothesÂ
(c) destroy
(d) exploit
5. Stem from
 (a) ruin
(b) originateÂ
(c) induce
(d) kill
6. Ina jiffy
 (a) suddenly
(b) outstanding
(c) in a fix
(d) appropriate
7. Stir up a hornet’s nest
(a) money laid by
(b) well-mannered people
(c) neighbourhood
(d) create trouble
8. On the nod
(a) onÂ
(b) shake one’s head
(c) on credit
(d) to fall as keep
9. To take occasion
(a) to take advantage of an opportunity
(b) celebrate
(c) to draw a moral attention
(d) organise a ceremony
10. To oil the knocker
(a) to eat greasy items
(b) to fill the tank
(c) to get the vehicle greased
(d) to tip the office-boy
11. A fool’s paradise
(a) paradise of idiots
(b) to live in illusions
(c) to live in the past
(d) to have happy dreams
12. Take it ill
(a) to feel otherwise
(b) to feel good
(c) to be offendedÂ
(d) suffering from fever
13. To chew the end
(a) to cut the end
(b) to think deeply
(c) to be annoyedÂ
(d) start something new
14. To scale up
(a) to kill
(b) to measure
(c) to die for
(d) to deepen
15. Extinct and obsolete
(a) exhausted
(b) very old
(c) as dead as a dodo
(d) behind time
 Answers:-
1.d                  2.a
3.c                  4.a     Â
5.b                  6.a
7.d                  8.c
9.a                  10.d
11.b                12.c
13.b                14.b
15.b
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