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Kerala PSC English Grammar Book Study Materials 1 Page 778
Book's First PageIDIOMS/PHRASES 826. (3) keep body and soul together: 833. (1) am angry Look at the sentence : stay alive especially in difficult have a bo ne to pick with The promises made by the circumstances; to have just somebody : to be angry with politicians are all moonshines. enough to sustain. somebody about something 847. (4) slowly Here, to have just enough to 834. (4) None of these At a snail’s pace = very slowly. sustain is the right option. flog a dead horse : to waste your Look at the sentence : Look at the sentence : effort by trying to do something He won the game at snail’s pace. l Do you think a man can keep that is no longer possible. 848. (3) Pay a visit body and soul together by 835. (2) cheated Call on = to visit someone. selling coconuts? 836. (3) perplexed Look at the sentence : 827. (3) will–o–the–wisp : a thing that at sea : confused and not Part of my job was to go out and is impossible to obtain; a person knowing what to do. call on farmers. that you cannot depend on. 837. (2) detachment and seclusion 849. (1) to make peace Here, unreal imagining is the ivory tower : a situation where To bury the hatchet = to stop right option. you are separated from the being unfriendly and become Look at the sentence : problems and practical aspects friends again. l To build a bridge across an of normal life. 850. (4) To have a very good sale ocean is like will -o-the wisp. 838. (4) reverie Selling like hot cakes = selling 828. (3) cloak and dagger : activities a brown study : a mood of deep quickly or in great numbers. that are secret and mysterious, absorption or thought fulness. 851. (2) Unpunishement sometimes in a way that people 839. (2) red handed : caught in the Scot-free = without receiving the think is unnecessary or act of doing something wrong or punishment you deserve. ridiculous. illegal. Look at the sentence : 840. (2) Smooth ruffled feathers = to They got off scot-free because of Here, an activity that involves make somebody feel less angry lack of evidence. is the right option. or offended. 852. (2) Emphasise Look at the sentence : Look at the sentence : Drive home = to make somebody l Why can’t we be open about it ? I spent the afternoon smoothing understand or accept something. Do we really need all this cloak- ruffled feathers and trying to and-dagger stuff ? 853. (1) End without any practical convince people to give the talks result 829. (3) palm off : to persuade some- another chance. To end in smoke = futile; end body to accept something that 841. (4) Assume airs = to pretend with no practical result. has no value; to dispose off with superiority the intent to deceive. 854. (3) An ambiguous compliment Look at the sentence : A left handed compliment = a Here, to dispose off with the He is in the habit of assuming remark that seems to express intent to deceive is the right airs in the p resence of hi s admiration but could also be option. inlaws. understood as an insult. Look at the sentence : 842. (2) Play truant = to stay away 855. (3) Enmity l Make sure he doesn’t try to palm from school without permission. Bad blood = feelings of hatred you off with faulty goods. 843. (1) Cannot be described or strong dislike; enmity. 830. (3) get the sack from : being Beggar description/belief = to Look at the sentence : told by your employer that you be too extreme, shocking etc. to There is bad blood between two can no longer continue working describe/believe. families. for a company etc. usually Look at the sentence : 856. (4) To talk about irrelevant things because of something that you The beauty of Kashmir beggars To beat about the bush = to talk have done wrong. description. about something for a long time Here, was dismissed from is the 844. (3) Be reluctant to act without coming to the main point. right usage. Drag one’s feet/heels = to be 857. (2) First speech 831. (3) stimulates my appetite deli berately slo w in d oing Maiden speech = the first speech mouth-watering : food looks or somethi ng or in maki ng a made by an MP in the parliaments smells so good that you want to decision. of some countries. eat it immediately; tempting 845. (3) Nurture an impossible hope 858. (3) An unwelcome intruder 832. (4) waching all his actions closely Hope against hope = to continue A cuckoo in the nest = an breathe down somebody’s to hope for something although it unwelcome intruder in a place neck: to watch closely what is very unlikely to happen. or situation. somebody is doing in a way that 846. (2) far from reality Look at the sentence : makes them feel anxious or All moonshine = silly talk; For Peter, his new father was a annoyed. nonsense. cuckoo in the nest. SEE–785