CUET English - Select the correct idiom to fill in the blank in the following sentence: We were talking ______ I was talking about the exams, and you thought I meant the course as a whole. | PYQs + Solutions

CUET English 2025 19 May Shift 2

Vocabulary

Medium

at cross purposes

to some purpose

in the dark

through our hat

✅ Correct Option: 1,4

Related questions:

29 May Shift 1

Fill in the blanks in List-I with the expressions from the text given in List-II on the basis of your understanding of the passage:

List-1	List-II
(Sentences)	(expressions)
(A) The news of my friend's tragic accident and left me at a loss of words.	(I) lesson in life
(B) During our reunion after 11 years, it was natural that our conversation range of diverse subjects.	(II) took for granted
(C) My visit to an orphanage in the neighborhood turned out to be a	(III) meandered through
(D) Mohan always all the efforts his mother made to give him a decent upbringing.	(IV) struck me like a thunderbolt.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

3 June Shift 2

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

21 May Shift 2

Select the appropriate option for the underlined phrase given below:

'The subject remained a closed book.'

CUET English 2025 19 May Shift 2 PYQs