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    Pipe dream I. I feel enthusiastic today

    because I had a pipe dream. II. We deserve a system where clean, sustainable energy is something more than a pipe dream for delusional hippies. III. He was the leading pipe dream of the behavioural approach to psychology. In each of the following questions, an idiom has been used in sentences in three different ways. Choose the option corresponding to the sentences in which the usage of the word is CORRECT or APPROPRIATE.
    A Only I Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    B Both II and III Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    C Only II Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    D Both I and III Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    E All of these Correct Answer Incorrect Answer

    Solution

    The idiom ‘a pipe dream’ means ‘an idea or plan that is impossible or very unlikely to happen’. In II, it is correct. In I, the idea is contradictory. In III, it is incorrect.

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