IPMAT Indore 2024 · Verbal Ability · Question 13

The idiom. To bite someone’s head off means to respond with sudden, disproportionate anger.

Why it fits. The sentence explains the supervisor’s behaviour by his “bad mood”, and the trigger is an ordinary, reasonable request. An angry over-reaction is exactly what the clause needs.

Why the others fail:

(a) ate my head — not standard English. (Eat someone’s head exists in Indian English informally, meaning to nag or pester continuously — which is the wrong sense here anyway, since the supervisor reacted once, not repeatedly.)

(b) cut my voice — no such idiom. The nearest real phrase is cut someone off, meaning to interrupt.

(d) hit my ear off — invented. (Talk someone’s ear off is real, but it means to talk excessively.)

Answer: Option 3

Shortcut. Only one option is a real English idiom — a surprisingly common situation in IPMAT’s idiom questions, where the distractors are built by swapping a body part or a verb into a half-remembered phrase.

Test each against your memory of the fixed form: bite someone’s head off ✔, talk someone’s ear off (not hit), cut someone off (not cut someone’s voice). Idioms are fixed expressions — a single altered word makes them non-existent, not merely unusual.