In the following question, four alternatives are given for the Idiom/Phrase underlined in the sentence. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the Idiom/Phrase.

Villagers always call a spade a spade.

• to speak about spades

• to speak in a straight forward manner

• to call someone a spade

• to speak ill about someone

In the following question, four alternatives are given for the Idiom/Phrase underlined in the sentence. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the Idiom/Phrase.

Mary broke a dining-room window and had to face the music when her father got home.

• accept the punishment

• listen carefully

• ask a lot of sequence

• listen to music

In the following question, four alternatives are given for the Idiom/Phrase underlined in the sentence. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the Idiom/Phrase.

To play second fiddle.

• To be happy, cheerful and healthy

• To reduce the importance of one's senior

• Take a subordinate role

• To do backseat driving

In the following question, four alternatives are given for the Idiom/Phrase underlined in the sentence. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the Idiom/Phrase.

Why are you jumping down my throat? I wasn't even in the house when it happened.

• Running away

• Making a joke

• Scolding me

• Forcing me to eat

In the following question, four alternatives are given for the Idiom/Phrase underlined in the sentence. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the Idiom/Phrase.

I m out of my wits and therefore cannot find a way to solve the problems immediately.

• not intelligent enough

• greatly confused

• helpless without power

• totally ignorant