Roshan Tolani Solutions for Chapter: Previous Years' Questions, Exercise 10: Exercise

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Questions from Roshan Tolani Solutions for Chapter: Previous Years' Questions, Exercise 10: Exercise with Hints & Solutions

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In the following questions' an idiom/ phrase has been highlighted I underlined I italicised in the sentence. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the given idiom I phrase.

Our plan to go to London is in the air.

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In the following questions' an idiom/ phrase has been highlighted I underlined I italicised in the sentence. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the given idiom I phrase.

My efforts at pest control went in vain, I have to go back to the drawing board.

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In the following questions' an idiom/ phrase has been highlighted /underlined/ italicised in the sentence. Choose the alternative which best expresses themeaning of the given idiom I phrase.

By revising the tax code, the Government would be opening a Pandora's box.

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Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the underlined idiom in the following sentence.

Left to his own devices, Mahesh would hire someone to do the dirty work of washing dishes.

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Choose from the given options the one that best substitutes the underlined idiom in the following sentence.

Your words during the discussion added fuel to the fire.

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Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the underlined idiom in the following sentence.

Why do you fight shy of me?

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In the following question an idiom/ phrase has been highlighted I underlined I italicised in the sentence. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the given idiom I phrase.

They have latched on to tourism as a way of boosting the local economy.

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In the following questions' an idiom/ phrase has been highlighted I underlined I italicised in the sentence. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the given idiom I phrase.

When he asked me the way to the cafeteria, I told him to follow his nose.