Learning from the school of hard knocks
- (a)Learning things from experience
- (b)Learning things from others
- (c)Learning things from environment
- (d)Learning things through difficult experiences
Correct — D, Learning things through difficult experiences. 'The school of hard knocks' is the practical education a person gains from tough, often painful, real-life experiences rather than from formal teaching, so option (d) captures its meaning exactly.
- (a)Learning things from experience — This is too broad — the idiom stresses hard, difficult experience, not experience in general, so it drops the very word ('hard knocks') that carries the meaning.
- (b)Learning things from others — The idiom is about what life's setbacks teach you first-hand, not about being taught by other people.
- (c)Learning things from environment — 'Environment' is unrelated; the phrase points to hardship and adversity, not surroundings.
An idiom-meaning item — 'the school of hard knocks' means the lessons learnt the hard way, through difficult or painful experience rather than formal education.
No directly related past PYQ was found.
- practice — not a real PYQ
Choose the meaning of the idiom 'learn the ropes'.
- (a)to tie knots
- (b)to learn how to do a job or task
- (c)to climb quickly
- (d)to escape danger
Answer(b) to learn how to do a job or task — 'learn the ropes' means to become familiar with the way something is done.
- practice — not a real PYQ
Choose the meaning of the idiom 'a hard nut to crack'.
- (a)a tasty snack
- (b)an easy question
- (c)a difficult problem or person
- (d)a broken tool
Answer(c) a difficult problem or person — something or someone hard to deal with or understand.