IDIOMS (Part-IX)

41. Lose your marbles____. [SSC CGL 09/12/2022 (4th Shift)]

(a) To go insane
(b) To handle stress
(c) To lower down anger
(d) To be patient

Correct Answer: (a) To go insane

Solution:to go insane.

E.g.- The defence lawyer seems to have lost his marbles as he is not handling the witnesses properly.

42. The sailor tells great tales of adventure that you should take with a grain of salt. [SSC CGL 12/12/2022 (2nd Shift)]

(a) Great admiration
(b) Great patriotism
(c) Not take too seriously
(d) Be afraid to refrain from

Correct Answer: (c) Not take too seriously

Solution:not take too seriously.

43. Select the most appropriate idiom that can substitute the italicised words in the given sentence. [SSC CGL 13/12/2022 (3rd Shift)]

My mother said, "Make consistent progress for success."

(a) slow and steady
(b) make a habit
(c) in and outs
(d) do's and don'ts

Correct Answer: (a) slow and steady

Solution:make consistent progress for success.

44. I must tell you that it all went pearshaped after you left the meeting in the middle. [SSC CGL 13/12/2022 (4th Shift)]

(a) Went terribly wrong
(b) Became very entertaining
(c) Became tragic
(d) Turned out fine

Correct Answer: (a) Went terribly wrong

Solution:went terribly wrong.

45. Select the idiom from the given options that gives the most appropriate meaning of the highlighted text in the following sentence. [SSC CGL 13/12/2022 (4th Shift)]

A village fair is a place that contains many interesting objects. People of all age groups eagerly wait for this.

(a) Road to Damascus
(b) Ivory tower
(c) Aladdin's cave
(d) Jewel in the crown

Correct Answer: (c) Aladdin's cave

Solution:a place filled with a great number and variety of strange or precious items

46. They are rivals and cannot work together in harmony. [SSC CPO 09/11/2022 Morning]

(a) Potter about
(b) Make up
(c) Put down
(d) Pull together

Correct Answer: (d) Pull together

Solution:work together in harmony.

47. Be on the breadline____. [SSC CPO 09/11/2022 Morning]

(a) Having plenty of money
(b) Find a successful way of making money
(c) Earn a lot of money very easil
(d) Be very poor

Correct Answer: (d) Be very poor

Solution:Be very poor.

E.g. Most of the people in this society are on the breadline.

48. Crying wolf______. [SSC CPO 09/11/2022 Afternoon]

(a) To be in pain by getting hit by something.
(b) To frighten someone in your comfort zone.
(c) To ask for help when you don't need it.
(d) To cry over little things that don't matter.

Correct Answer: (c) To ask for help when you don't need it.

Solution:To ask for help when you don't need it

E.g.- If you cry wolf too often, people will stop believing that you need help.

49. Belly laugh_____. [SSC CPO 09/11/2022 Afternoon]

(a) Mocking someone
(b) Laughing with inhibition
(c) A loud and unrestrained laugh
(d) To be subjected to mockery and ridicule

Correct Answer: (c) A loud and unrestrained laugh

Solution:A loud and unrestrained laugh.

E.g.- His childish joke caused a belly laugh.

50. A mare's nest_____. [SSC CPO 09/11/2022 Afternoon]

(a) Deep crisis
(b) Simple and interesting work
(c) Complicated situation
(d) Area of law

Correct Answer: (c) Complicated situation

Solution:Complicated situation

E.g.- It was a mare's nest when his father found him drinking alcohol.

Pinnacle note- A mare's nest is a false discovery. It is a place, condition, or situation of great disorder or confusion.