Multiple choice

Directions: Select the best meaning of the given phrase. Burn the candles at both ends

  1. to overstretch resources

  2. to be a lazy person

  3. double damage

  4. to be lavish in disposition

  5. to remain sorrowful
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

'To burn the candle at both ends' means to overexert oneself or exhaust resources by trying to do too much simultaneously. Just as a candle burned from both ends consumes itself twice as fast, a person doing this depletes their energy, money, or time rapidly. Option A correctly identifies this meaning of overstretching resources.

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