Multiple choice

Directions: Identify that correct idiom or phrase to complete the sentence.

Your father will _________for your mistake.

  1. beat you alive

  2. skin you alive

  3. bake you alive

  4. berate you alive
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

To skin someone alive is a hyperbolic expression meaning to scold or punish someone severely and harshly. Option B correctly captures this idiomatic threat of severe punishment. The other options (beat, bake, berate) with 'alive' don't form recognized English idioms.

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