CLASS 10
THE THIEFS STORY
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Question
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Explain the phrase ‘by fits and starts’.
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Now and then
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once a week
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At any cost
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very frequently
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -If something happens in fits and starts, it often stops and then starts again: Replies to the advertisement are arriving in fits and starts.
Detailed explanation-2: -Also, in fits and starts. With irregular intervals of action and inaction, spasmodically, as in The campaign is proceeding by fits and starts. This expression began in the late 1500s as by fits, the noun fit meaning a “paroxysm” or “seizure”; starts was added about a century later.
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