Daily Quiz | On idioms
The Hindu
On January 10 or thereabouts, 49 BC, Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon river – an act that purportedly began Caesar’s civil war and also entrenched an idiom in the English language. Here’s a quiz on other such idioms
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