A. The importance of appearances
Answer:
Admit that they lost the bet
Explanation:
The options you were given are the following:
- admit that they lost the bet
- bet more money on Smiley's dog
- grab Smiley's dog and tie it up
- try to help the other dog beat Smiley's dog
An idiom is a phrase that has a figurative, non-literal meaning. We can't conclude what this type of phrase means based on the meanings of individual words that make it up. Here, we have the idiom <em>throw up the sponge</em>. No one is literally throwing up sponges. This phrase means<em> </em><em>to give up a contest </em>or <em>to acknowledge defeat</em>.
Based on this information, we can conclude that the dogs are fighting until the people who own them admit that they lost the bet.
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