Question
Choose the option which best expresses the meaning of the
idiom/phrase bold in the sentence. The hotel claimed to have luxurious rooms, but when we went there, we found the rooms so small and cramped that there was no room to swing a cat .Solution
The idiom "no room to swing a cat" is used to describe a very small or cramped space. In the given sentence, the hotel claimed to have luxurious rooms, but they turned out to be extremely small and confined, fitting the meaning of the idiom perfectly.
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