CLASS 10
THE BOOK THAT SAVED THE EARTH
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Question
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In the nursery rhyme Hey diddle diddle the ____ jumped on the moon
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cat
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dog
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rat
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cow
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -The cow jumped over the moon; The little dog laughed. To see such sport, And the dish ran away with the spoon. The rhyme is the source of the English expression “over the moon", meaning “delighted, thrilled, extremely happy".
Detailed explanation-2: -There’s one incident I found from some English newspaper where a cow apparently jumped about six feet up onto the roof of a barn.” Has a cow ever been around the moon? “Not unsurprisingly, they’ve never sent up a cow."
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