Cut The Cackle # Idioms For IELTS
If you want to get a high score in IELTS, you need to learn to cut the cackle.
- The whole caboodle-:
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Sentence-:One terrorist attack and the world starts to question the whole caboodle of Asians.
Meaning-:The whole lot - Cut the cackle-:
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Sentence-:You need to cut the cackle when writing essay in IELTS.
Meaning-:Stop talking aimlessly and come to the point - Have a cadenza-:
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Sentence-:The Indians had a cadenza when India lost the world cup semi final.
Meaning-:Be extremely agitated - Caesar’s wife-:
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Sentence-:Relationships truly work if you treat the other person as Caesar’s wife.
Meaning-:A person who is required to be above suspicion. - In cahoots-:
- At the drop of the hat
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Sentence-: She can do those tough bike stunts at the drop of the hat.
Meaning-: very easily and without much preparation - On its last legs
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Sentence-: His grandfather is on his last legs.
Meaning-: in a very bad condition and will not last long - Old flames die hard
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Sentence-: I was wrong when I said old flames die hard, times heals everything.
Meaning-: it is hard to forget old things - Round the houses
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Sentence-: He is used to going round the houses.
Meaning-: to do something in an inefficient way when there is a better way to do it. - Paper over the cracks
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Sentence-: I don’t like people with the habit of putting paper over the cracks.
Meaning-: to hide something
Meaning-:Working or conspiring together often dishonestly; in collusion