Idioms Quiz - 04

Idioms Quiz
General English Questions and Answers
Choose an idiom to replace the expression in the brackets.

1. Choose an idiom to replace the expression in the brackets:
The used car that we bought began to (stop working properly) after only three months.

a. fall on deaf ears

b. flip out

c. fall apart

d. fall out of use

2. Choose an idiom to replace the expression in the brackets:
I do not know what is (bothering) my friend but he is very angry.

a. eating

b. easier said than done for

c. edging out

d. extending credit to

3. Choose an idiom to replace the expression in the brackets:
(There is something good in every bad thing) and even after I lost my job good things happened.

a. The early bird catches the worm

b. There was enough to go around

c. Every cloud has a silver lining

d. It was the exception that proves the rule

4. Choose an idiom to replace the expression in the brackets:
I decided to (throw away) my old fax machine and buy a new one.

a. deep-six

b. die down

c. dish out

d. double back

5. Choose an idiom to replace the expression in the brackets:
I find it difficult to (understand) what the man wants to say.

a. figure out

b. fire away at

c. fan the flames of

d. fly in the face of

6. Choose an idiom to replace the expression in the brackets:
Cleaning up their new house will take the couple a lot of (effort and energy).

a. elbow room

b. elbow grease

c. extenuating circumstances

d. eleventh-hour decisions

7. Choose an idiom to replace the expression in the brackets:
The ship sank and most of the crew drowned and went to (the bottom of the sea).

a. a dose of their own medicine

b. die laughing

c. Davy Jone's locker

d. drop a bombshell

8. Choose an idiom to replace the expression in the brackets:
The baby was (fast asleep) when his parents looked in the room.

a. dead to the world

b. a deadbeat

c. a dead duck

d. as dead as a doornail

9. Choose an idiom to replace the expression in the brackets:
Please (check) the figures again before you pay the money.

a. divide and conquer

b. double-check

c. do a snow job on

d. do justice to

10. Choose an idiom to replace the expression in the brackets:
My mother was (dressed in) her best dress to go to the ceremony.

a. day in and day out in

b. decked out in

c. dead ahead in

d. done for

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