{"id":22923,"date":"2026-06-21T18:24:35","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T12:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/at-pains-to-idiom-meaning-quiz-for-grade-12\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T18:24:35","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T12:24:35","slug":"at-pains-to-idiom-meaning-quiz-for-grade-12","status":"publish","type":"mcq","link":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/at-pains-to-idiom-meaning-quiz-for-grade-12\/","title":{"rendered":"At pains to Idiom Meaning Quiz for Grade 12"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>What does the phrase <strong>At pains to<\/strong> mean in standard English?<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"quiz-options\">\n<li>Making a careful or serious effort to do something<\/li>\n<li>To have a natural talent for something<\/li>\n<li>To receive unfair or worse treatment<\/li>\n<li>To give little attention, sympathy, or consideration<\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","topic":[3203,3210,3213,3150],"subject":[3116],"education_level":[1896],"class_list":["post-22923","mcq","type-mcq","status-publish","hentry","topic-academic-vocabulary","topic-contextual-meaning","topic-hsc-english-grammar","topic-work-and-effort","subject-idioms-phrases","education_level-hsc"],"mcq_note":"<p><strong>At pains to<\/strong> means <strong>making a careful or serious effort to do something<\/strong>. The correct answer is this meaning because the expression is used figuratively, not only by its literal words.<\/p><p><strong>Examples:<\/strong><\/p><ul><li>The author was <em>at pains to<\/em> explain every term.<\/li><li>In an HSC essay, <em>At pains to<\/em> can express this meaning: <strong>making a careful or serious effort to do something<\/strong>.<\/li><li>When this expression appears in a passage, connect <em>At pains to<\/em> with the idea of <strong>making a careful or serious effort to do something<\/strong>.<\/li><\/ul>","mcq_options":[{"right":"yes","answer":"Making a careful or serious effort to do something"},{"right":"no","answer":"To have a natural talent for something"},{"right":"no","answer":"To receive unfair or worse treatment"},{"right":"no","answer":"To give little attention, sympathy, or consideration"}],"multi_answers":"no","subject_terms":[{"id":3116,"title":"Idioms &amp; Phrases","slug":"idioms-phrases"}],"topic_terms":[{"id":3203,"title":"Academic Vocabulary","slug":"academic-vocabulary"},{"id":3210,"title":"Contextual Meaning","slug":"contextual-meaning"},{"id":3213,"title":"HSC English Grammar","slug":"hsc-english-grammar"},{"id":3150,"title":"Work and Effort","slug":"work-and-effort"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mcq\/22923","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=22923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=22923"},{"taxonomy":"subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/subject?post=22923"},{"taxonomy":"education_level","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/education_level?post=22923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}