Top 150+ Idioms and Phrases for AFCAT PDF Download 2023

Download Top 150+ Idioms and Phrases PDF from here for AFCAT 2023. Every year around 4 to 5 Questions are asked from the Idioms and Phrases portion. Idioms and Phrases asked in Previous years’ exams were easy to moderate. Both types of questions i.e. direct and sentence-based are asked in the exam.

An idiom is an expression, word or phrase that has a special or figurative meaning. These are the group of words whose meaning is different from the meanings of the individual words.
e.g. ‘To pull someone’s leg’ is an idiom and it means ‘to trick them by telling someone something untrue, not literally grabbing one’s leg and yanking it.

A phrase is a small group of words standing together as an idiomatic expression and it is mostly derived from the verb and other parts of speech. Phrases are a group of words without a finite verb, especially one that forms a part of a sentence.
e.g. ‘Fall out’ is a phrase and it means ‘quarrel’ not ‘falling out’.

Points to be Kept in Mind While Answering Questions based on Idioms and Phrases

Read the question with given choices carefully before answering it.
Try to get the figurative meaning of the given idiom/phrase rather than the meaning of individual words.
Use the elimination method to eliminate irrelevant or incorrect choices. It will help to choose the correct choice for the given idiom/phrase.
In sentence form questions, get the meaning of the given idiom/phrase in the context of the sentence