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Nishant kumar

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· 1 Months ago

'Old habits die hard' is an idiom.

Question:

DIRECTIONS: In the given questions a part of the sentence is underlined. Below are given alternatives to the underlined part at (a), (b), (c) and (d) which may improve the sentence. Choose the correct alternative.

Old habits hardly die.  

Options:
A)

die hard    

B)

die too hard

C)

die much hardly    

D)

No improvement

Solution:

Ans: (d) No improvement. Old habits hardly die means that they don't often die. That is, old habits tend to survive while Old habits die hard is an proverb which is used for saying that it is difficult to change a way of behaving that someone has had for many years.

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· 1 Months ago

Old habits die hard is not an idiom.. it is proverb..

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