Discussion
He succeeded by dint ........ his hard labour.
Answer: C
The phrase is by dint of: He succeeded by dint of his hard labour.
By dint of is a fixed prepositional phrase meaning 'by means of' or 'as a result of', almost always followed by effort or persistence: by dint of hard work, by dint of sheer determination. The word dint (force, a blow) survives in modern English only inside this phrase, and the phrase always ends in of.
By dint by, by dint for and by dint at are not English; only of completes the idiom.
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