Which idiom meaning idle

chatter, originated from the

fact that in the days before

refrigeration sailors used to

complain about eating salted

pork skin, which consisted

largely of fat?

• Big

  fat

• A fat lot

• Fat is in the fire

• Chew the fat

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Which idiom meaning joking

or fooling with someone was

originally a method used by

thieves to trap pedestrians and rob them.

• Pull someone's leg

• Break a leg

• Don't have a leg to stand on

• On his or her last legs

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What animal if let out, means

revealing a secret, according to

a popular idiom?

• Dog

• Cat

• Pony

• Rat

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According to popular belief,

which idiom meaning to refuse

to acknowledge a known truth,

originated from the fact that

Horatio Nelson was blind in one eye?

• Turn a blind eye

• As blind as a bat

• Blind date

• Blind alley

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Which publishing house had

brought out the first nine books

written by Bhagat since his

debut in 2004?

• Penguin Books India

• Rupa Publications

• Zubaan

• Bloomsbury Publishing India

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For which 2013 film did Chetan

Bhagat win the Filmfare award

for Best Screenplay?

• Kai Po Che!

• 2 States

• 3 Idiots

• Godan

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Published in 2004, which was

Chetan Bhagat's first novel?

• One Night @ The Call Centre

• The Girl in Room 105

• The 3 Mistakes of My Life

• Five Point Someone

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Identify the figure of speech

used in the following sentence

from John Keats' 'To Autumn':

'Conspiring with him how to

load and bless

With fruit the vines that round

the thatch-eves run.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Alliteration

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Identify the figure of speech

used in the following line from

Shakespeare's 'Macbeth': 'I am

cabin'd, cribb'd, confined, bound

in To saucy doubts and fears'

• Personification

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

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Which figure of speech has

words that imitate a natural

sound, like buzz or boom?

• Irony

• Onomatopoeia

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

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