Post-UTME English Language 2005 Objective — Question 12
Question 12 of 73 from the Post-UTME Screening (Post-UTME) English Language 2005 Objective paper, with the correct answer and a full explanation.
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The armed robbers who raided passengers on the outskirts of the city came to grief when they had a shoot-out with the police today (nearest in meaning to the idiom)
- A. came to a bad endCorrect
- B. became defeated
- C. became grieved
- D. came to a dead end
Explanation
'Came to grief' means to suffer a bad/disastrous outcome.
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