{"id":1420,"date":"2017-07-27T03:59:38","date_gmt":"2017-07-26T21:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/which-is-the-best-phrase-for-the-underlined-expression\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T04:07:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T22:07:14","slug":"which-is-the-best-phrase-for-the-underlined-expression","status":"publish","type":"mcq","link":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/which-is-the-best-phrase-for-the-underlined-expression\/","title":{"rendered":"Choose the Best Phrase for the Underlined Expression"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Which phrase means <strong>so miserable that it cannot be described in words<\/strong>?<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"quiz-options\">\n<li>boils down to this<\/li>\n<li>cuts to the quick<\/li>\n<li>beggars description<\/li>\n<li>keeps open house<\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","topic":[3189],"subject":[3116],"education_level":[1896,1895],"class_list":["post-1420","mcq","type-mcq","status-publish","hentry","topic-description-and-expression","subject-idioms-phrases","education_level-hsc","education_level-ssc"],"mcq_note":"<p><strong>beggars description<\/strong> is correct because <strong>beggars description<\/strong> means is so extreme that it cannot be described adequately in words.<\/p><p>This idiom or phrase is useful because it helps students understand the intended meaning beyond the individual words.<\/p><p><strong>Examples:<\/strong> <em>The beauty of the mountain sunrise beggars description.<\/em> <em>The suffering after the flood beggared description.<\/em><\/p><p><strong>Beggars description<\/strong> is the only option that means words are not enough to describe something.<\/p>","mcq_options":[{"right":"no","answer":"boils down to this"},{"right":"no","answer":"cuts to the quick"},{"right":"yes","answer":"beggars description"},{"right":"no","answer":"keeps open house"}],"multi_answers":"no","subject_terms":[{"id":3116,"title":"Idioms &amp; Phrases","slug":"idioms-phrases"}],"topic_terms":[{"id":3189,"title":"Description and Expression","slug":"description-and-expression"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mcq\/1420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mcq"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/mcq"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=1420"},{"taxonomy":"subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/subject?post=1420"},{"taxonomy":"education_level","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/education_level?post=1420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}