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Question : Select the most appropriate idiom from the following options that can substitute the underlined part of the given sentence.

Sometimes doing something that makes it impossible to return to the previous situation later strengthens you.

Option 1: Painting the town red

Option 2: Knocking your socks off

Option 3: Burning your bridges

Option 4: A red-letter day


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Correct Answer: Burning your bridges


Solution : The correct choice is the third option.

Burning one's bridges means committing oneself to an irreversible course. This makes the third option, burning your bridges, the appropriate choice.

Therefore, the correct sentence is, "Sometimes burning your bridges strengthens you".

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