Directions: In the following questions, find out the correct meaning of the underlined idioms and phrases from the given options. You can also review your choices by clicking into answer section.
31. Some people now wonder whether we just pay lip-service or genuinely subscribe to democracy.
A. Pay oral tribute
B. Attach no value
C. Remain indifferent
D. Show only outward respect
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32. It is time that professors came down from their ivory towers and studied the real needs of the students.
A. Detachment and seclusion
B. A tower made of ivory
C. Prison
D. Dream lands
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33. The curious neighbors were disappointed as the young couple's quarrel was just a storm in a tea cup.
A. Violent quarrel
B. Fuss about a trifle
C. Brittle situation
D. Quarrel about tea cups
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34. The autographed bat from the famous cricketer Paras Khadka is worth a jew's eye.
A. Not a worthy possession
B. Unnecessary
C. A costly items
D. A possession of high value
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35. Manoj always keeps himself to himself.
A. Is too busy
B. Is selfish
C. Is unsociable
D. Does not take sides
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36. It is really not too difficult to pick holes in others ideas.
A. To find some reason to quarrel
B. To destroy something
C. To criticize someone
D. To cut some part of an item
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37. The killers shot those women in cold blood.
A. Unintentionally
B. Mercilessly
C. Aimlessly
D. In a group
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38. There is no hard and fast rule regarding this subject.
A. Rule that is difficult
B. Rule that is fat changing
C. Rule that cannot be broken or modified
D. Rule that can be broken or modified
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39. Today's statement of the prime minister fits like a glove to our national policy.
A. Embarrassed
B. Meaningful
C. Waste
D. Exactly
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40. Environmentalists have no political axe to grind, they just want to save the planet.
A. A private end to serve
B. To fail to arouse interest
C. To have no result
D. To work for both sides
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41. Anmol was a black sheep in the family because he didn't have a job and spent all his time on the street making trouble.
A. An unlucky person
B. A lucky person
C. An ugly person
D. None of these
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42. Some people would cry wolf at the slightest provocation so when the real threat appeared no one believed them.
A. To listen eagerly
B. To give false alarm
C. To turn pale
D. To keep off starvation
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43. He is living in a down at heels condition now-a-days.
A. Miserable
B. Cheerful
C. Poverty
D. Delightful
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44. Safal is not a man of straw, even CEO of his bank consults him on important matters.
A. A man of no substance
B. A very active person
C. A worthy fellow
D. An unreasonable person
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45. A clerk is generally on the rocks during the last days of the month.
A. Very happy
B. No money
C. Frustrated
D. Lost
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