Choose the meaning of the Idiom: A cat's Paw means?
- Person of soft nature
- Completely unarmed
- Person used as a tool to do something dangerous
- A narrow escape
Explanation
- The idiom "a cat's paw" refers to someone who is being used as a tool or instrument by another person to achieve a goal or accomplish a task, often in a way that involves risk or danger.
- The phrase is thought to have originated from the idea that a cat's paw is used to test if a surface is hot or dangerous, and similarly, a person may be used as a "cat's paw" to test the waters or take the fall for someone else.
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- To be exactly correct
- Speaking directly to the point
- Perform as a task with exactness
- To say something that is exactly right
- All of these
اس سوال کو وضاحت کے ساتھ پڑھیں
- Do a new jobs
- Change one’s behaviour for the better
- Read between the pages of a book
- None of these
اس سوال کو وضاحت کے ساتھ پڑھیں
- Create problem
- Worsen bad situation
- Aggravate trouble
- Both B and C
اس سوال کو وضاحت کے ساتھ پڑھیں
- Resigned
- Got rid of
- Was dismissed from
- None of these
اس سوال کو وضاحت کے ساتھ پڑھیں
