To pull up
- (a)To lift heavy weights
- (b)To check oneself
- (c)To shorten the distance
- (d)Too short of destination
Answer
B
Why
Correct — B, 'To check oneself.' 'To pull up' means to come to a stop or bring something to a halt; 'to check oneself' is to stop or restrain oneself, which matches that sense.
Why the others are wrong
- (a)To lift heavy weights — A literal reading of the words 'pull up', not the idiomatic sense of stopping or checking.
- (c)To shorten the distance — Unrelated — the phrase is about halting, not about covering less ground.
- (d)Too short of destination — Not a meaning of the phrase, and it plays on the sound 'to/too' rather than the idiom.
Concept
'To pull up' means to stop or come to a halt; used reflexively it means to check or restrain oneself.
Related PYQs
No directly related past PYQ was found.
Practice
- practice — not a real PYQ
Choose the meaning of 'to pull up' (as when a car pulls up outside a house).
- (a)to come to a stop
- (b)to speed away
- (c)to break down
- (d)to reverse
Answer(a) to come to a stop — 'pull up' means to halt.
- practice — not a real PYQ
Choose the meaning of the idiom 'to rein oneself in'.
- (a)to restrain or check oneself
- (b)to let go completely
- (c)to ride quickly
- (d)to give up
Answer(a) to restrain or check oneself — like pulling up, it means holding oneself back.