During the debate, when the minister appeared to be vague about his stand on the controversial energy project, his opponent asked him to ___________ and declare outright if the government would go ahead with the project or not.
During the debate, when the minister appeared to be vague about his stand on the controversial energy project, his opponent asked him to ___________ and declare outright if the government would go ahead with the project or not.
Solution
The blank needs a phrasal verb meaning to get straight to the point without delay.
Option 1 -> be curt to the face -> not a standard idiom; being curt means being rudely brief.
Option 2 -> cut to the chase -> means to get directly to the point without wasting time on preliminaries.
Option 3 -> curb the farce -> not a standard idiom; would mean to stop something ridiculous.
Option 4 -> cut globe -> not a meaningful phrase or idiom.
When someone tells you to cut to the chase, they're asking you to skip all the unnecessary details and get straight to the main point. It's like fast-forwarding through the boring parts of a movie to reach the exciting chase scene - hence the name of this time-saving expression.
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