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past year questions, CUET English 2025 3 June Shift 2

Idioms

past year questions, Vocabulary, CUET English 2025 3 June Shift 2

Medium

Fill in the blanks in the sentences given in List-I with the appropriate idioms given in List-II:

List-I
(Sentences)		List-II
(Idioms)
(A) The police came to the scene ______ to avoid embarrassment.(I) from hand to mouth
(B) There is still a large population in the country who live ______ and can hardly make ends meet.(II) smell a rat
(C) Rohit is a bit ______, you have to explain things to him several times.(III) in the nick of time
(D) Although Ajay clarified his stand, I still ______ in his behaviour.(IV) slow on the uptake

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Solution

✅ Correct Option: 2

Option 1 -> Incorrect matching: "from hand to mouth" doesn't fit context A about police arriving.

Option 2 -> (A)-(III): "in the nick of time" = just in time; (B)-(I): "from hand to mouth" = living in poverty; (C)-(IV): "slow on the uptake" = slow to understand; (D)-(II): "smell a rat" = suspect something wrong.

Option 3 -> Incorrect matching: (C) and (D) are wrongly paired.

Option 4 -> Incorrect matching: All pairings are incorrect.

Hence, Option 2 -> The idioms correctly match: police arrived "in the nick of time" (just in time), people living "from hand to mouth" (in poverty), Rohit is "slow on the uptake" (slow to understand), and still "smell a rat" (sense suspicion) in Ajay's behavior -> correct

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