CLASS 10
THE THIEFS STORY
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Question
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The meaning of the phrase ‘fits and starts’ means ____
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Rarely
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Occasionally
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Regularly
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Hardly
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -idiom. If something happens in fits and starts, it often stops and then starts again: Replies to the advertisement are arriving in fits and starts. Rarely & infrequently.
Detailed explanation-2: -synonyms for fits and starts desultory. erratic. frivolous. haphazard. indiscriminate.
Detailed explanation-3: -not continuously, but regularly stopping and then starting again.
Detailed explanation-4: -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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