IPMAT Indore 2026 · Verbal Ability · Question 19

IPMAT Indore 2026 previous year question on Idioms and Phrases, with the answer and a step-by-step solution.

Idioms and PhrasesVocabularyMultiple choiceEasy

Complete the following sentence by choosing the most appropriate word/phrase from the options given below.

The rich businessman bought a luxury duplex apartment that must have cost a/an_________.

  1. A

    large bushelful

  2. B

    incredulous bombshell

  3. C

    arm and a leg

  4. D

    entire legacy

Pick an option, then check.
Answer & solution

Answer: Option C

What the sentence needs. An idiom meaning extremely expensive.

The idiom. Cost an arm and a leg = to be very costly. It is the standard fixed expression and fits a luxury apartment exactly.

Why the others fail:

large bushelful — a bushel is a unit of volume for grain; it is not an idiom for price.

incredulous bombshell — incredulous describes a person who cannot believe something (the word for the thing itself is incredible), and the phrase is not English.

entire legacy — grammatically possible but not an idiom, and “a/an” before it reads awkwardly.

Answer: Option 3 — arm and a leg

Shortcut. The article “a/an” before the blank signals a fixed noun phrase. Only one of the four is a real English idiom — recognising cost an arm and a leg ends the question instantly.

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