2025 · Q33
Directions: In the following items an idiom or a proverb is given. Select the response that most appropriately describes the meaning of the idiom or proverb and mark your response on the Answer Sheet accordingly.
Blow your own trumpet
EnglishIdioms and Phrases
- ABe very loud in company
- BAll sound and fury, signifying nothing
- CExcessively boastful of one's own achievements
- DBe scathing in one's criticism of others
Explanation
"Blow your own trumpet" means to boast about one's own achievements — to sound one's own praises loudly. It does not mean being loud in company generally, making empty noise, or criticising others. Option (C), "excessively boastful of one's own achievements", is the precise meaning.