Question

What does the phrase ‘to take a leap in the dark' mean?
a. Not to be reckless and impulsive.
b. To take an action that is risky because its result cannot be predicted.
c. To fall in the dark.
d. To get a ray of hope.

Answer 1

Hint: The phrase ‘to leap in the dark' means something you do without being certain what will happen as a result.

Complete answer:
‘To take a leap in the dark' is a phrase. If you take a leap in the dark or a leap into the unknown, you do something without having any previous experience is that activity or knowledge of it. For example : Prudent people are not going to take a leap in the dark.
Now, let us examine all the given options and find out the correct answer.

Option ‘a’ is Not to be reckless and impulsive. This phrase is not related to the given phrase, hence, it cannot be the answer.

Option ‘b’ is To take an action that is risky because its result cannot be predicted. This phrase is the correct answer as, this also means “an act that is risky because its consequences cannot be foreseen”, same as the given sentence in the question.

Option ‘c’ is To fall in the dark. This phrase does not exactly relate to the given phrase, hence, cannot be the correct answer.

Option ‘d’ is To get a ray of hope. This also cannot be the answer as the phrase “To take. A leap in the dark” somewhere means that nobody knows or expects the results, there is no hope present, unlike this phrase in option ‘d’.

So, the correct answer is option ‘b’.

Note: We have to know the exact meaning of the given phrase before looking for the correct answer.