Multiple choice

Directions: Find out the correct meaning of the idiom/phrase from the four alternatives.

Beat the air

  1. To discourage

  2. To be hopeful in need

  3. Perplexed

  4. To make useless efforts
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D Correct answer
Explanation

To 'beat the air' means to make useless, futile, or wasted efforts - attacking or striving without any real effect or achievement. Like a boxer hitting air, the effort produces no result. It doesn't mean discouraging, being hopeful, or being perplexed - it's specifically about wasted, ineffective action.

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