{"id":22808,"date":"2026-06-21T18:20:35","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T12:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/ssc-practice-on-the-idiom-high-and-dry\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T18:20:35","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T12:20:35","slug":"ssc-practice-on-the-idiom-high-and-dry","status":"publish","type":"mcq","link":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/ssc-practice-on-the-idiom-high-and-dry\/","title":{"rendered":"SSC Practice on the Idiom High and dry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>How should we understand <strong>High and dry<\/strong> in a sentence?<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"quiz-options\">\n<li>Act unfairly or cruelly<\/li>\n<li>Become lost or go in the wrong direction<\/li>\n<li>At the best or strongest stage<\/li>\n<li>Left helpless or without support<\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","topic":[3212],"subject":[3116],"education_level":[1895],"class_list":["post-22808","mcq","type-mcq","status-publish","hentry","topic-exam-preparation","subject-idioms-phrases","education_level-ssc"],"mcq_note":"<p><strong>High and dry<\/strong> means <strong>left helpless or without support<\/strong>. This answer is correct because the expression has a fixed figurative meaning in English. In an SSC idiom question, students should match the whole phrase with its accepted meaning rather than translate each word separately.<\/p><ul><li><strong>Classroom example:<\/strong> <em>High and dry<\/em> can refer to a situation involving left helpless or without support.<\/li><li><strong>Story example:<\/strong> A writer may use <em>High and dry<\/em> when describing a situation involving left helpless or without support.<\/li><li><strong>Exam example:<\/strong> When a sentence contains <em>High and dry<\/em>, choose the meaning \u201cleft helpless or without support.\u201d<\/li><\/ul>","mcq_options":[{"right":"no","answer":"Act unfairly or cruelly"},{"right":"no","answer":"Become lost or go in the wrong direction"},{"right":"no","answer":"At the best or strongest stage"},{"right":"yes","answer":"Left helpless or without support"}],"multi_answers":"no","subject_terms":[{"id":3116,"title":"Idioms &amp; Phrases","slug":"idioms-phrases"}],"topic_terms":[{"id":3212,"title":"Exam Preparation","slug":"exam-preparation"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mcq\/22808","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=22808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=22808"},{"taxonomy":"subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/subject?post=22808"},{"taxonomy":"education_level","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/education_level?post=22808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}