CDS Exam (II)- 2025 - English Defence Question Paper

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CDS Exam (II)- 2025 - English

CDS Exam (II)- 2025 - English Defence Questions

31.
Directions (Next 10 Questions): In the following items an idiom or a proverb is given. Select the response that most appropriately describes the meaning of the idiom or proverb and mark your response on the Answer Sheet accordingly.

Someone's ears are flapping
A.
Someone in a state of intense agitation
B.
Someone in a state of heightened excitement
C.
Someone desperate to eavesdrop on a conversation
D.
Someone embarrassed at being caught in the act of lying
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ANSWER :
C. Someone desperate to eavesdrop on a conversation
32.
Twist of the knife
A.
Slicing through the difficulties that one faces in life
B.
To accept defeat in the face of an enemy
C.
The last thrust of a difficult operation
D.
To make someone who is already feeling bad, feel worse with one's words or actions
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ANSWER :
D. To make someone who is already feeling bad, feel worse with one's words or actions
33.
Blow your own trumpet
A.
Be very loud in company
B.
All sound and fury, signifying nothing
C.
Excessively boastful of one's own achievements
D.
Be scathing in one's criticism of others
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ANSWER :
C. Excessively boastful of one's own achievements
34.
Get under someone's skin
A.
To fall intensely in love with someone
B.
To cause intense liking in someone
C.
To understand someone completely
D.
To annoy or irritate someone intensely
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ANSWER :
D. To annoy or irritate someone intensely
35.
Many hands make light work
A.
Many people working together can light a new path
B.
Many people helping can help accomplish a task quickly
C.
Many people working together can make work non-serious
D.
Workers light up the work they undertake
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ANSWER :
B. Many people helping can help accomplish a task quickly
36.
A bird in hand is worth two in the bush
A.
What's hidden is always a matter of speculation
B.
What we have is always more valuable than what we have a chance of getting
C.
A gift is always better kept close to oneself
D.
What can happen is always better than what has happened
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ANSWER :
B. What we have is always more valuable than what we have a chance of getting
37.
Make heavy weather
A.
Cloud seeding
B.
To pollute the air
C.
To complain about wet and rainy conditions
D.
Unnecessarily create difficulty in dealing with a task
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ANSWER :
D. Unnecessarily create difficulty in dealing with a task
38.
Sweep under the carpet
A.
Maintain secrecy under any circumstance
B.
Hide from general view
C.
Keep a problem under wraps in the hope that it will be forgotten
D.
Do a quick clean up job
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ANSWER :
C. Keep a problem under wraps in the hope that it will be forgotten
39.
A purple patch
A.
A beautiful valley of flowers
B.
The final bloom of the season
C.
A great run of luck or success or form
D.
A bodily discolouration related to heredity
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ANSWER :
C. A great run of luck or success or form
40.
Put out to pasture
A.
To retire or render redundant
B.
To feed someone
C.
To diminish importance
D.
To incubate
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ANSWER :
A. To retire or render redundant
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