Multiple choice

Directions: Four alternatives are given for the idiom/phrase underlined in the sentence. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/phrase.

Your plan to go trekking alone is dicing with death. Take somebody along!

  1. putting life at risk by doing something dangerous

  2. a potentially risky situation

  3. doing something that can cause one’s own downfall

  4. like experiencing death
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Explanation

The phrase, 'dicing with death' refers to putting life at risk by doing something dangerous. 'A potentially risky situation' refers to the phrase, 'dicey situation'. 'Doing something that can cause one’s own downfall' refers to the phrase, 'dig one’s own grave'. The others are the incorrect meanings of the given phrase.

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