Select the idiom that best completes the context:
After debating the club's budget allocations fruitlessly for three hours, the council members agreed to _____ and revisit the proposal next week.
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: D. call it a day
- Step 1: Analyze the communicative context: the council members are fatigued after hours of unfruitful discussion and decide to stop working for the day and reconvene later.
- Step 2: Choose 'call it a day', an established idiom meaning to stop what one is doing, often because enough work has been done or further progress is unlikely.
Answer
call it a day.
Why not the others: 'hit the ceiling' means to become intensely angry; 'burn the candle' means to exhaust oneself by working excessively; 'break the ice' means to relieve social tension in an awkward initial meeting.
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