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Choose the option that BEST completes: 'The ragpickers came to Delhi ___ a better life.'

AIn search of
BOn search of
CBy search of
DOf search of
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: A. In search of
'In search of' is the idiomatic prepositional collocation. The other forms are unidiomatic.
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