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G. Replace the highlighted words in the following passage with suitable
idioms. Make changes, if necessary, in the sentences while using some
idioms.

To put it differently, their life is a bundle of agony and perpetual pain.

Living in a distant and backward place, often their children have no

access to education and their near relatives fail to receive the medical

facilities offered by the government. At times, they even find it hard

to feed themselves adequately though they work continuously for

hours. The tale of misery becomes prominent only when something

tragic happens to them. The influential people come from big cities

to give them hope of a better life in future. These people pretend

to be their saviours though nothing much changes in their average

lives. By now they also have a thorough knowledge about it.

necessary evil banana republic grey matter

run of the mill day and night kith and kin

act the hole the centre of attraction pie in the sky

top brass knows inside out cock and bull story

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