Question
She rejected his proposal of marriage
>point-blank. Directions: In the following questions, four alternatives are given for the idiom/phrase bold in the sentence. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/phrase.Solution
Solution: The phrase ‘point-blank’ means ‘saying something very clearly in very few words, without trying to be polite or pleasant’. Hence, ‘directly’ is correct here.
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