Question
Some analysts clutch the numbers and say corn
production will be hard-pressed to keep up with the overall demand. In each question below, a sentence is given with a part of it printed in bold type. That part contains an idiom/phrasal verb that may be correct or erroneous. Each sentence is followed by phrases (A), (B), (C) and (D). Find out which is the correct idiom that should replace the error in bold, if there is any, and which makes the sentence grammatically meaningful and correct. If the sentence is correct as it is and ‘No improvement required’, mark (E) as the answer.Solution
The idiom ‘crunch the numbers’ means ‘to do mathematical work involving large amounts of information or numbers’. This is the correct idiom. Some analysts crunch the numbers and say corn production will be hard-pressed to keep up with the overall demand.
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