Vocabulary

Idioms

Easy

Identify the meaning of the Idiom from the options given below:

To spill the beans

To break something

To create obstacles

To disobey someone

To reveal some secret

✅ Correct Option: 4

"To spill the beans" means to disclose secret information, usually unintentionally or prematurely. Hence the correct meaning is "to reveal some secret".

2023: 7 June Shift 1

Match List - I with List - II.

List - I (Idioms)	List - II (Meaning of Idiom)
(A) Fall flat	(I) Unsuccessful
(B) In hot water	(II) Strongly disapproved of
(C) Bolt from the blue	(III) In trouble
(D) Black sheep	(IV) All of a sudden

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2022: 4 Aug Shift 1

Match the Idioms given in List I with their meaning in List II

List I (Idiom)	List II (Meaning)
A. Come out with flying colours	I. Become prominent and popular
B. Cry over spilt milk	II. Repent after a loss due to carelessness
C. Fair weather friend	III. Someone who is untrue and only pretends to be a friend
D. In the limelight	IV. Huge Success

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2026: 19 May Shift 1

Match the idioms given in List-I with the meanings given in List-II.

List-I (Idioms)	List-II (Meanings)
(A) Blow your own trumpet	(I) Very early in the morning
(B) Labour of Hercules	(II) Talk boastfully about yourself
(C) Beggar belief	(III) Task requiring enormous strength
(D) Up with the lark	(IV) Be too extraordinary to be believed

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2026: 29 May Shift 2

Match the idioms given in List-I with their meanings given in List-II.

	LIST-I (Idioms)		LIST-II (Meanings)
A.	Build castles in the air	I.	The art of speaking
B.	To have the gift of the gab	II.	To keep starvation at bay
C.	Keep the wolf from the door	III.	To make visionary schemes
D.	Lead up the garden path	IV.	To cheat

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2025: 31 May Shift 1

Match the Idioms given in List I with their meanings given in List II

List I	List II
Idioms	Meanings
(A) Build castles in the air	(I) To assume success too soon
(B) Count your chickens before they are hatched	(II) To be very careful in a sensitive situation
(C) Walk on eggshells	(III) To go against popular opinion
(D) Swim against the tide	(IV) To have unrealistic dreams

2023: 23 June Shift 3

From the following options, choose the option with the correct use of the plural verb:

Identify the meaning of the Idiom from the options given below: To spill the beans

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Identify the meaning of the Idiom from the options given below:

To spill the beans