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Master Your Vocabulary: 15 Idioms for Competitive Exams(2026) | MCQs for Competitive exams


Idioms for Competitive Exams 

Select the most appropriate meaning of the given idiom:

Bank upon:

  1. Mistrust
  2. Doubt
  3. Depend on
  4. To save money
Ans: Depend on

Bring home:

  1. To buy a new home
  2. To explain
  3. To give information
  4. To continue
Ans: to explain

Square meal:

  1. Breakfast
  2. Lunch
  3. Dinner
  4. Full meal
Ans: Full meal

Wear a long face:

  1. To look gloomy
  2. Light up
  3. Cheerful face
  4. Surprized
Ans: To look gloomy

In vogue:

  1. In the current fashions
  2. Out of style
  3. Old fashioned
  4. Olden
Ans: In the current fashion

Once for all:  

  1. Temporarily
  2. Gradually
  3. Finally
  4. Provisionally

Ans: Finally

Mother's wit:

  1. Common sense
  2. Academic qualification
  3. Mother's knowledge
  4. Native wit
Ans: Common sense

At large:

  1. As a whole
  2. Extensively
  3. Generally
  4. Confined
Ans: Confined

Assume airs:

  1. Humble
  2. Down-to-earth
  3. Pretend superiority
  4. Reject
Ans: Pretend superiority

At the stone's throw:

  1. Far away
  2. A very short distance
  3. Remote
  4. An easy task
Ans: A very short distance

The principal is not ready to listen to any arguments beside the mark.

Meaning of the idiom, "beside the mark".
  1. Suggestion 
  2. On the mark
  3. Pertinent
  4. Irrelevant
Ans: Irrelevant

Nowadays, corporal punishment is considered a criminal activity.
Meaning of the idiom, "corporal punishment".
  1. Praise
  2. Reward
  3. Encouragement
  4. Bodily punishment
Ans: Bodily punishment

He is so cocksure that he will certainly ace the upcoming entrance exam.

Meaning of the idiom cocksure.
  1. Modest
  2. Humble
  3. Diffident
  4. Arrogant
Ans: Arrogant

His father strictly said to him," I cannot allow you to play ducks and drakes 
with your inheritance.
Meaning of the idiom," Ducks and drakes".

  1. To store
  2. Frugal
  3. To waste money
  4. Hoard

Ans: To waste money

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