Like chalk and cheese
- (a)very different from each other
- (b)without any blemish
- (c)pure white in colour
- (d)very like each other
Answer
A
Why
Correct — A, very different from each other. 'Like chalk and cheese' likens two things that may look comparable yet are fundamentally unalike, so 'very different from each other' is its meaning.
Why the others are wrong
- (b)without any blemish — Unrelated to the idiom, which is about dissimilarity, not flawlessness.
- (c)pure white in colour — A literal reading of the colour of chalk and cheese rather than the idiomatic sense of contrast.
- (d)very like each other — The exact opposite of what the idiom means — it stresses how unalike the two things are.
Concept
An idiom item — 'like chalk and cheese' compares two things that seem similar but are actually very unalike, so the answer is 'very different from each other'.
Related PYQs
No directly related past PYQ was found.
Practice
- practice — not a real PYQ
Choose the option that best states the meaning of the idiom 'poles apart'.
- (a)very similar
- (b)extremely different
- (c)close friends
- (d)geographically distant
Answer(b) extremely different — two things or views that are as far apart as possible.
- practice — not a real PYQ
Choose the option that best states the meaning of the idiom 'birds of a feather'.
- (a)people who are very alike
- (b)people who quarrel often
- (c)rare individuals
- (d)colourful characters
Answer(a) people who are very alike — the full saying is 'birds of a feather flock together'.