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Question
Fill in the gap choosing the appropriate idiom.
(drown out, hits in the head with a brick, get one’s affairs in order, connect the dots, begin to dawn, stay hungy)
On reading exactly same essays in both answer sheets, it ______ the examiner, that the students had cheated during exams.
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Solution
On reading exactly same essays in both answer sheets, it began to dawn on the examiner, that the students had cheated during exams.
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