2025 · Q39
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.
A purple patch
EnglishIdioms and Phrases
- AA beautiful valley of flowers
- BThe final bloom of the season
- CA great run of luck or success or form
- DA bodily discolouration related to heredity
Explanation
A "purple patch" denotes a sustained run of success, luck or good form (originally a florid passage in writing, by extension a rich vein of form). It is not a valley of flowers, a final bloom, or a bodily discolouration. Option (C) is the correct meaning.