Directions: Given below are some idioms/phrases followed by four alternative meanings each. Select the response (a), (b), (c) or (d), which is the most appropriate meaning and mark your response on the Answer Sheet accordingly. Bad blood

Feelings of hatred between people

A situation which goes from bad to worse

To accept the unpleasant situation

Directions: Given below are some idioms/phrases followed by four alternative meanings to each. Select the response (a), (b), (c) or (d), which is the most appropriate meaning and mark your response on the Answer Sheet accordingly. A white lie

A lie that you tell to avoid hurting someone

An offensive way of describing something

To do something completely impossible

A lie that is absolutely and universally true

Directions: Given below are some idioms/phrases followed by four alternative meanings to each. Select the response (a), (b), (c) or (d), which is the most appropriate meaning and mark your response on the Answer Sheet accordingly. Sit on the fence

to make someone suddenly notice you

Directions: Given below are some idioms/phrases followed by four alternative meanings to each. Select the response (a), (b), (c) or (d), which is the most appropriate meaning and mark your response on the Answer Sheet accordingly. Have the last laugh

to succeed when others thought that you would not

to be the worst example of something

to solve all the problems of life

Directions: Given below are some idioms/phrases followed by four alternative meanings to each. Select the response (a), (b), (c) or (d), which is the most appropriate meaning and mark your response on the Answer Sheet accordingly. Count your blessings

to be grateful for good things in your life

to start to understand how badly something has affected you

an event which gradually becomes worse

something that you say in order to warn someone

Idioms And Phrases — NDA Previous Year Questions

52 solved PYQs · 2021–2024 · English

Solved PYQs: 52
Years covered: 2021–2024
Avg / year: ~13
Subject: English

How many NDA questions come from Idioms And Phrases?

Idioms And Phrases has contributed 52 questions to National Defence Academy Examination papers between 2021 and 2024 — an average of about 13 questions a year. That count is measured from EByAi’s bank of 15,695 NDA questions, not estimated from a syllabus. Every one of the 52 questions carries a written, step-by-step solution, and each is tagged to Idioms And Phrases within English, so you can drill this chapter across every year at once instead of hunting through paper PDFs. Practising a chapter’s full PYQ history is the fastest way to learn the patterns examiners reuse.

Sample Idioms And Phrases questions from real NDA papers

These are 5 real questions from the bank — exactly as asked, with the answer one tap away. All 52 Idioms And Phrases questions (with full written solutions) are available in practice.

Question 1 · NDA 2024
Directions: Given below are some idioms/phrases followed by four alternative meanings each. Select the response (a), (b), (c) or (d), which is the most appropriate meaning and mark your response on the Answer Sheet accordingly.

Bad blood
1. (A) $Feelings of hatred between people$
2. (B) $A situation which goes from bad to worse$
3. (C) $A fatal accident$
4. (D) $To accept the unpleasant situation$
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$Answer: (A) Feelings of hatred between people$
Question 2 · NDA 2024
Directions: Given below are some idioms/phrases followed by four alternative meanings to each. Select the response (a), (b), (c) or (d), which is the most appropriate meaning and mark your response on the Answer Sheet accordingly.

A white lie
1. (A) $An offensive way of describing something$
2. (B) $To do something completely impossible$
3. (C) $A lie that is absolutely and universally true$
4. (D) $A lie that you tell to avoid hurting someone$
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$Answer: (D) A lie that you tell to avoid hurting someone$
Question 3 · NDA 2024
Directions: Given below are some idioms/phrases followed by four alternative meanings to each. Select the response (a), (b), (c) or (d), which is the most appropriate meaning and mark your response on the Answer Sheet accordingly.

Sit on the fence
1. (A) $to make someone suddenly notice you$
2. (B) $to fail completely$
3. (C) $to delay making a decision$
4. (D) $to behave very badly$
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$Answer: (C) to delay making a decision$
Question 4 · NDA 2024
Directions: Given below are some idioms/phrases followed by four alternative meanings to each. Select the response (a), (b), (c) or (d), which is the most appropriate meaning and mark your response on the Answer Sheet accordingly.

Have the last laugh
1. (A) $to be the worst example of something$
2. (B) $to succeed when others thought that you would not$
3. (C) $to solve all the problems of life$
4. (D) $to laugh at someone secretly$
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$Answer: (B) to succeed when others thought that you would not$
Question 5 · NDA 2024
Directions: Given below are some idioms/phrases followed by four alternative meanings to each. Select the response (a), (b), (c) or (d), which is the most appropriate meaning and mark your response on the Answer Sheet accordingly.

Count your blessings
1. (A) $to start to understand how badly something has affected you$
2. (B) $an event which gradually becomes worse$
3. (C) $to be grateful for good things in your life$
4. (D) $something that you say in order to warn someone$
Show answerAnswer
$Answer: (C) to be grateful for good things in your life$

Idioms And Phrases questions by year

Year	Questions	Share of chapter questions
2024	10
2023	10
2022	21
2021	11

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