{"id":4089,"date":"2020-06-14T13:38:13","date_gmt":"2020-06-14T13:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/?post_type=mcq&#038;p=4089"},"modified":"2026-06-21T04:07:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T22:07:11","slug":"after-getting-a-severe-scolding-from-his-mother-karim-got-down-to-business","status":"publish","type":"mcq","link":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/after-getting-a-severe-scolding-from-his-mother-karim-got-down-to-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Meaning of Get Down to Business"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In the sentence, what does <strong>get down to business<\/strong> mean?<br>After getting a severe scolding from his mother, Karim <strong>got down to business<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"quiz-options\">\n<li>joined his father\u2019s business<\/li>\n<li>began to work seriously<\/li>\n<li>became businesslike<\/li>\n<li>started a business<\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","topic":[3150],"subject":[3116],"education_level":[2494,2495,1894],"class_list":["post-4089","mcq","type-mcq","status-publish","hentry","topic-work-and-effort","subject-idioms-phrases","education_level-grade-6","education_level-grade-7","education_level-grade-8"],"mcq_note":"<p><strong>began to work seriously<\/strong> is correct because <strong>get down to business<\/strong> means to start working seriously on an important task.<\/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>After the discussion, the team got down to business.<\/em> <em>Stop joking and get down to business before the deadline.<\/em><\/p><p>The idiom does not mean starting a company; it means becoming serious about the task.<\/p>","mcq_options":[{"right":"no","answer":"joined his father\u2019s business"},{"right":"yes","answer":"began to work seriously"},{"right":"no","answer":"became businesslike"},{"right":"no","answer":"started a business"}],"multi_answers":"no","subject_terms":[{"id":3116,"title":"Idioms &amp; Phrases","slug":"idioms-phrases"}],"topic_terms":[{"id":3150,"title":"Work and Effort","slug":"work-and-effort"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mcq\/4089","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=4089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=4089"},{"taxonomy":"subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/subject?post=4089"},{"taxonomy":"education_level","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/education_level?post=4089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}