{"id":22571,"date":"2026-06-21T18:14:50","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T12:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/grade-8-expression-study-off-the-record\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T18:14:50","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T12:14:50","slug":"grade-8-expression-study-off-the-record","status":"publish","type":"mcq","link":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/grade-8-expression-study-off-the-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Grade 8 Expression Study: \u201cOff the record\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>What does the idiom <strong>Off the record<\/strong> usually mean?<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"quiz-options\">\n<li>to complete or survive something difficult<\/li>\n<li>after some time has passed<\/li>\n<li>not official or not meant to be made public<\/li>\n<li>to fail to take someone or something, or move ahead of them<\/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-22571","mcq","type-mcq","status-publish","hentry","topic-contextual-meaning","subject-idioms-phrases","education_level-grade-8"],"mcq_note":"<p><strong>Off the record<\/strong> means <strong>not official or not meant to be made public<\/strong>. It is the correct answer because this expression is used figuratively to describe information shared privately rather than for publication.<\/p><p>Examples:<\/p><ul><li>The teacher spoke <strong>off the record<\/strong> about the plan.<\/li><li>This comment is <strong>off the record<\/strong>.<\/li><li>The reporter received an <strong>off the record<\/strong> explanation.<\/li><\/ul>","mcq_options":[{"right":"no","answer":"to complete or survive something difficult"},{"right":"no","answer":"after some time has passed"},{"right":"yes","answer":"not official or not meant to be made public"},{"right":"no","answer":"to fail to take someone or something, or move ahead of them"}],"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\/22571","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=22571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=22571"},{"taxonomy":"subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/subject?post=22571"},{"taxonomy":"education_level","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/education_level?post=22571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}