Once-over
- (a)To do something quickly
- (b)To do something elaborately
- (c)To do something perforce
- (d)To do something for others
Answer
A
Why
Correct — A, 'To do something quickly.' A 'once-over' is a quick, cursory look or inspection — a single rapid pass over something — so the sense it carries is doing something quickly.
Why the others are wrong
- (b)To do something elaborately — The opposite — a once-over is brief and cursory, not detailed or elaborate.
- (c)To do something perforce — 'Perforce' means by necessity or compulsion, which has nothing to do with a quick look.
- (d)To do something for others — The phrase carries no sense of acting on someone else's behalf.
Concept
'Once-over' means a quick, cursory look or inspection — a rapid single pass over something to check it.
Related PYQs
No directly related past PYQ was found.
Practice
- practice — not a real PYQ
Choose the meaning of 'to give something a once-over'.
- (a)to examine it quickly
- (b)to study it in great detail
- (c)to repeat it twice
- (d)to ignore it
Answer(a) to examine it quickly — a once-over is a rapid, cursory inspection.
- practice — not a real PYQ
Choose the meaning of the idiom 'in a jiffy'.
- (a)very slowly
- (b)very soon / quickly
- (c)with great effort
- (d)reluctantly
Answer(b) very soon / quickly — 'in a jiffy' means in a very short time.