{"id":22434,"date":"2026-06-21T18:11:36","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T12:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/grade-8-phrase-focus-be-beside-oneself\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T18:11:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T12:11:36","slug":"grade-8-phrase-focus-be-beside-oneself","status":"publish","type":"mcq","link":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/grade-8-phrase-focus-be-beside-oneself\/","title":{"rendered":"Grade 8 Phrase Focus: \u201cBe beside oneself\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Which answer gives the closest meaning of <strong>Be beside oneself<\/strong>?<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"quiz-options\">\n<li>to be overwhelmed by strong emotion<\/li>\n<li>to have no effect or influence<\/li>\n<li>to have a friendly relationship with someone<\/li>\n<li>threatening in words but not harmful in action<\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","topic":[3210],"subject":[3116],"education_level":[1894],"class_list":["post-22434","mcq","type-mcq","status-publish","hentry","topic-contextual-meaning","subject-idioms-phrases","education_level-grade-8"],"mcq_note":"<p><strong>Be beside oneself<\/strong> means <strong>to be overwhelmed by strong emotion<\/strong>. It is the correct answer because this expression is used figuratively to describe being extremely upset, excited, or worried.<\/p><p>Examples:<\/p><ul><li>She was <strong>beside herself<\/strong> with joy after winning.<\/li><li>He was <strong>beside himself<\/strong> when he lost his bag.<\/li><li>The parents were <strong>beside themselves<\/strong> with worry.<\/li><\/ul>","mcq_options":[{"right":"yes","answer":"to be overwhelmed by strong emotion"},{"right":"no","answer":"to have no effect or influence"},{"right":"no","answer":"to have a friendly relationship with someone"},{"right":"no","answer":"threatening in words but not harmful in action"}],"multi_answers":"no","subject_terms":[{"id":3116,"title":"Idioms &amp; Phrases","slug":"idioms-phrases"}],"topic_terms":[{"id":3210,"title":"Contextual Meaning","slug":"contextual-meaning"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mcq\/22434","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=22434"},{"taxonomy":"subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/subject?post=22434"},{"taxonomy":"education_level","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/education_level?post=22434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}