Show your hand
- (a)To tell people about the past
- (b)To tell people about the future
- (c)To tell people about them
- (d)To tell people about your plans
Answer
D
Why
Correct — D, 'To tell people about your plans.' Drawn from card games, to 'show your hand' means to reveal the intentions or plans you had so far kept hidden.
Why the others are wrong
- (a)To tell people about the past — The idiom looks forward to your intentions, not back at past events.
- (b)To tell people about the future — Too vague — it is about revealing your own plans, not making predictions about the future in general.
- (c)To tell people about them — The phrase concerns disclosing your own plans, not information about other people.
Concept
'Show your hand' comes from card games and means to reveal your true intentions or plans that were previously concealed.
Related PYQs
No directly related past PYQ was found.
Practice
- practice — not a real PYQ
Choose the meaning of 'to show your hand'.
- (a)to reveal your intentions or plans
- (b)to offer help
- (c)to greet someone
- (d)to admit defeat
Answer(a) to reveal your intentions or plans — to disclose what you had kept hidden.
- practice — not a real PYQ
Choose the meaning of the idiom 'to tip one's hand'.
- (a)to accidentally reveal one's plans
- (b)to spill a drink
- (c)to point at someone
- (d)to change one's mind
Answer(a) to accidentally reveal one's plans — to give away one's intentions unintentionally.