Question : Select the most appropriate meaning of the given idiom.
Keep someone at arm's length.
Option 1: Avoid becoming friendly with someone.
Option 2: Avoid playing with someone.
Option 3: Being someone's enemy.
Option 4: Avoid becoming bitter with someone.
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Correct Answer: Avoid becoming friendly with someone.
Solution : The most appropriate choice is the first option.
The idiom, keep someone at arm's length means to maintain a certain emotional or physical distance from others in order to be formal and cautious, rather than forming close or deep relationships.
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Question : Select the most appropriate meaning of the underlined idiom in the given sentence. Being an ardent professional, the lawyer always kept his clients at an arm’s length.
Option 1: Away from each other.
Option 2: At a distance.
Option 3: Under wraps.
Option 4: Alert and prepared.
Question : Select the most appropriate meaning of the given idiom. At cross purposes.
Option 1: Developing and amplifying ideas given.
Option 2: Finalising ideas and plans.
Option 3: Blindly following each other's ideas.
Option 4: Disagreeing with each other's ideas.
Question : Select the most appropriate meaning of the given idiom. To read between the lines
Option 1: To criticise the writer's style
Option 2: To interrupt someone while reading
Option 3: To read each line carefully
Option 4: To understand the implied meaning
Behind one’s back
Option 1: In one’s absence
Option 2: In everyone’s knowledge
Option 3: Confronting somebody
Option 4: Openly supporting someone
Question : Select the most appropriate meaning of the given idiom. Fight shy of
Option 1: to invite
Option 2: to avoid
Option 3: to challenge
Option 4: to perform
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