To level with
- (a)To be honest
- (b)To be on a plain
- (c)To cheat someone
- (d)To take revenge
Answer
A
Why
Correct — A, 'To be honest.' To 'level with someone' means to speak frankly and truthfully with them, holding nothing back.
Why the others are wrong
- (b)To be on a plain — A literal reading of 'level' as flat ground; the idiom is about honesty, not geography.
- (c)To cheat someone — The opposite — levelling with someone means being truthful, not deceiving them.
- (d)To take revenge — Unrelated — the phrase carries no sense of getting even.
Concept
'To level with someone' means to be open and honest with them, telling the plain truth.
Related PYQs
No directly related past PYQ was found.
Practice
- practice — not a real PYQ
Choose the meaning of 'to level with someone'.
- (a)to be completely honest with them
- (b)to argue with them
- (c)to ignore them
- (d)to compete with them
Answer(a) to be completely honest with them — to level with someone is to speak the plain truth.
- practice — not a real PYQ
Choose the meaning of the idiom 'lay one's cards on the table'.
- (a)to be open and honest about one's intentions
- (b)to gamble recklessly
- (c)to hide the truth
- (d)to give up
Answer(a) to be open and honest about one's intentions — to reveal one's true position frankly.