In each of the given questions, three sentences are given with a phrase/idiom highlighted in bold. You have to select the answer choice that states the combination of statements in which the idiom has been correctly used.

I. Listen to the news straight from the horse’s mouth, his factory burned down right in front of his eyes. 

II. You have cried wolf so many times that no one believes you now.

III. This shopkeeper always palms off old stock to the customers.