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Answer (Detailed Solution Below)
Option 1 : to commit to a course of action with no possibility of retreat
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सही उत्तर to commit to a course of action with no possibility of retreat है।
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By resigning before the results were declared, she burned her boats and left herself no way back. The idiom "to burn one's boats" means
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to commit to a course of action with no possibility of retreat
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to destroy the evidence of a crime
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to waste fuel on a useless journey
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to set fire to something accidentally
Correct Answer: to commit to a course of action with no possibility of retreat
Burning one's boats - like an invading army destroying its ships - means cutting off every means of retreat so that one must go forward; the context of resigning with "no way back" confirms option (a).
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