Multiple choice softskills leadership

To "leave someone for dead" means to ___.

  1. divorce, remarry and then kill that spouse

  2. abandon a person believed dead but actually alive

  3. ask a funeral director to take responsibility for a body

  4. remarry after a spouse dies
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B Correct answer
Explanation

The idiom 'leave someone for dead' means to abandon someone when they are injured or helpless, assuming they won't survive. It doesn't mean literally leaving a corpse, but rather deserting a person in a critical condition who might still be saved with help. The phrase emphasizes the cruelty of abandonment.

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