2024 · Q17
Given below are some idioms/phrases followed by four alternative meanings to each. Choose the response (a), (b), (c) or (d), which presents the most appropriate meaning and mark your response on the Answer Sheet accordingly.
Feather your own nest
EnglishIdioms and Phrases
- ATo make one's lodgings comfortable
- BTo make money for oneself by way of dishonest means
- CTo look at something with a lot of pleasure
- DTo make something more important than it really is
Explanation
‘To feather one’s own nest’ means to enrich oneself, especially by dishonest or improper means while in a position of trust. Option (a) gives only the literal sense of making lodgings comfortable, missing the idiom’s implication of self-serving gain. Options (c) and (d) are unrelated. Therefore ‘To make money for oneself by way of dishonest means’ is correct.