Question

Choose the correct option to complete the conversation.
Jatin : Let's take Kalyan also.
Rajesh : Kalyan hates eating food in that restaurant.
You're ________.

• A. cooking his goose
• B. flogging a dead horse
• C. bringing the house down
• D. going up in smoke

Answer 1

Answer: (B)

flogging a dead horse

In the given conversation, Rajesh indicates that Kalyan hates eating food in a restaurant. By taking such a reluctant person to the restaurant, he may not eat anything. Such an effort will be wasted with no chance of succeeding. The idiom, 'flogging a dead horse' means 'wasting effort on something when there is no chance of succeeding'. Hence, option B completes the conversation meaningfully.

The idiom, 'cooking his goose' means 'doing something which interfereswith,disrupts,orruinssomethingfor him'. By taking a reluctant person (Kalyan) to a restaurant, Jatin will not be interfering with Kalyan or spoiling something for Kalyan. Hence, option A is incorrect.

The idiom, 'bringing the house down' means 'making an audience laugh or applaud very enthusiastically'. The phrase, 'going up in a smoke' means ' being destroyed by fire'. This phrase is out of context with respect to the given conversation. These two options (C and D) are not connected to the topic of the given conversation and cannot meaningfully complete the conversation. Hence, options C and D are incorrect.