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Kerala PSC English Grammar Book Study Materials 1 Page 746
Book's First PageIDIOMS/PHRASES l Reading between the lines of the l I cannot put up with your con- l 17 - year - old Karan could also letter, she realised that her friend stant complaining any longer. be a dark horse for the medal was in great trouble. The best option is tolerate in the Olympiad. The best option is looking for 49. (1) talking through his hat : to The best option is an unfore seen meanings that are not actually say silly things while you are talk- competitor. expressed. ing about a subject you do not 57. (2) to run across : to meet some- 42. (2) to give the devil his due : understand body or find something by said when you admit that some- l He was talking through his hat chance one you don’t like or admire does when he described the ship- l I ran across some old friends at have some good qualities wreck. the Mall. l I don’t like her views, but still I The best option is to meet by The best option is talking non- give the devil her due; she has sense. chance. always something important to 58. (1) to get one’s own back : to 50. (4) go through fire and water : say. obtain something again after face any difficulty The best option is to give encour- having lost it; have one’s revenge l They went through fire and wa- agement even to the enemy. She finally saw a chance to get ter to ensure the child’s safety. l 43. (4) to eat humble pie : to say her own back. The best option is undergo any and show that you are sorry for risk. The best option is to get one’s a mistake that you made 51. (2) ran riot : to act without re- revenge. l The producers of the advertise- straint or control 59. (2) to steer clear of : to avoid a ment had to eat humble pie for l The children ran riot when there person or thing because it may misrepresenting the facts. was nobody (elders) at home. cause problems The best option is to apologise. The best option is acted without l Dad warned us to steer clear 44. (2) Hobson’s choice : a situation restraint. of Dr. Gupta and his poor ad- in which somebody has no choice 52. (2) give in : to admit that you vice. because if he does not accept what is offered, he will get nothing have been defeated by some- The best option is avoid. l We didn’t really want that partic- body/something 60. (4) to beat a retreat : to go away ular hotel, but it was a case of l The strikers seem determined, or back quickly, especially to Hobson’s choice. and are not likely to give in. avoid something unpleasant The best option is no real choice The best option is yield. l The dog beat a retreat to its own at all. 53. (1) cheek by jowl : side by side, yard. 45. (1) take with a grain of salt : to close together The best option is to run away hear/ listen/believe with some l The two families lived cheek by in fear. doubt jowl in one house. 61. (1) to blaze a trail : to be the l You must take anything she says The best option is very near. first to do/ to discover some- with a grain of salt. She doesn’t 54. (2) gave the game away : be- thing that others follow always speak the truth. tray; to make known something l The hospital has blazed a trail The best option is to listen to that somebody wants to keep in developing new techniques for something with considerable secret treating infertility. doubt. l Though they were the oldest of The best option is to lead the 46. (2) reading between the lines : the employees of the company, way as a pioneer. looking for or discovering a mean- they were giving the game 62. (3) red-letter day : an impor- ing; something that is not openly away. tant day, or a day that you will stated The best option is gave out the remember, because of some- l Reading between the lines of the secret. thing good that happened then. letter, she realised that her friend 55. (1) turn an honest penny : to l 15th August is a red-letter day was in great trouble. earn money honestly in the history of India. The best option is understand- l I cannot miss the opportunity of The best option is happy and ing the sense rather than the turning an honest penny. significant day actual words. The best option is make a legit- 63. (3) have the last laugh : to make 47. (2) by fits and starts : impulsive- imate living. someone who has criticized or ly and irregularly 56. (1) a dark horse : a person who defeated you, look stupid by l A sincere student works regular- does not tell other people much succeeding at something more ly, not by fits and starts about his life, and who surpris- important The best option is irregularly. es other people by having inter- l They fined her last year but she 48. (4) put up with : to accept some- esting qualities; a person taking body/something that is annoying, had the last laugh because she part in a race, etc., who sur- was taken on by her rivals at unpleasant, etc. without com- prises everyone by winning plaining once. SEE–753