Question
If you want to be more than just ordinary, then at some point, you're going to have to learn to burn your boots .
In each question below, a sentence is given with an idiom/phrase printed in bold type. That part may contain a grammatical error. Each sentence is followed by four alternatives. Find out which option should replace the phrase/idiom given in bold to correct the error, if there is any, and to make the sentence grammatically meaningful and correct. If the sentence is correct as it is and ‘No correction is required’, mark 5) as the answer.Solution
Here, the correct idiom is ‘burn your boats/bridges’. If you are in a situation and you burn your boats/bridges, you destroy all possible ways of going back to that situation. If you want to be more than just ordinary, then at some point, you're going to have to learn to burn your boats .
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