Question
Put a sock in it I. We have to put a sock in it;
only then will we be able to improve our speaking skills. II. With enough bytes already spilled on the Web about this, I decided to put a sock in it. III. He went on talking about his achievements, until I asked him to put a sock in it. 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.Solution
The idiom ‘put a sock in it’ is used to tell someone to be quiet or stop making so much noise. In II and III, the idiom is correctly used. In I, it is incorrect because the sentence would become contradictory.
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