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Grease the palm

  • to break promise
  • to break trust
  • to help
  • to bribe

Answer: Option D

Explanation:

Example : You will have to grease the palm of clerk for quick action on this file.

Similar Questions :

1. Grid up the lions

  • to get ready to protect
  • to prepare for hard work
  • to get ready for attack
  • none of above

Answer: Option C

Explanation:

Example : We must grid up the lions to be successful in life.

2. Spartan life

  • Living life full
  • Life of ascetic
  • Live life under someone
  • Very painful life

Answer: Option B

Explanation:

Example : Swami Vivekanand led a Spartan life.

3. Damp squib

  • Great honour
  • Great win
  • Complete failure
  • None of above

Answer: Option C

Explanation:

Example : Even the intervention of their leader proved a damp squib to resolve their matter.

4. Queer fish

  • Strange person
  • Pretty girl
  • Handsome boy
  • None of above

Answer: Option A

Explanation:

Example : I can not talk to him, he is such a queer fish.

5. Wild-goose chase

  • collective effort
  • hard work
  • very profitable
  • unprofitable

Answer: Option D

Explanation:

Example : All the efforts of NGO's to root out the curse of dowry system is still a wild-goose chase in certain areas.

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