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Idioms For May 12

Idioms do play a very important part in getting a high score in IELTS. Considering this five idioms have been given so that you can prepare them for the day. So, go on and have a look at Idioms For May 12

Take someone aback
Sentence-:I was taken aback by the problems faced by the Indian farmers.
Meaning-:Shock, surprise, or disconcert someone
Of your own accord
Sentence-:The decision to quit the job was of my own accord
Meaning-:Voluntarily or without outside intervention
Give a good account of yourself
Sentence-:Your marks in an exam often give a good account of your.
Meaning-:Make a favorable impression through your performance
Settle accounts with someone


Sentence-:I need to settle accounts with arav/ you can easily settle accounts but the point is does it matter?
Meaning-:Pay money owned to someone/ have revenge on someone
There’s no accounting for tastes
Sentence-:When living in abroad, you need to understand that there’s no accounting for abroad.
Meaning-:Impossible to explain why different people like different things, especially those things which the
speaker considers unappealing
Get weaving
Sentence-:I don’t care what you are going through, all I want is just get weaving if you want to succeed.
Meaning-: Begin action
Be a weight off your mind
Sentence-: This song is surely a universal weight off my mind
Meaning-: come as a great relief after you have been worried
BE WORTH YOUR WEIGHT IN GOLD
Sentence-: You need not to just work hard, you need be worth your weight in gold.
Meaning-: be extremely useful or helpful
OUTSTAY YOUR WELCOME
Sentence-: I have finished my work and have to leave; either ways I don’t want to outstay my welcome.
Meaning-: stay as a visitor longer than you are wanted
MAKE THE WELKIN RING
Sentence-:What was that welkin ring?
Meaning-: make a very loud sound

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WHY STUDY IDIOMS?

Increase The Length Of Sentence

Steps to increase the length of sentence-:

1.Start with the basic fact. Basic fact(subject+verb)
The number of Indians students who traveled abroad increased.

2.Bring out the increase of numbers.
The number of Indians students who traveled abroad increased from 5 million to 15 million.

3.Point the time when it happened
The number of Indians students who traveled abroad increased from 5 million to 15 million between 1985 and 1995.

4.Are the numbers accurate or approximate
The number of Indians students who traveled abroad increased from just under 5 million to around 15 million between 1985 and 1995.

5.Add an adverb
The number of Indians students who traveled abroad increased dramatically from 5 million to 15 million between 1985 and 1995.

6.Rephrase with a noun
The number of Indians students who traveled abroad increased dramatically from 5 million to 15 million between 1985 and 1995, a rise of ten million in ten years.

7.You can even begin with a noun
There was a dramatic increase in the number of students who traveled abroad increased dramatically from 5 million to 15 million between 1985 and 1995, a rise of ten million in ten years.

So, starting with a basic sentence you now have a long sentence. Increasing it any further might not be a good idea. So, go on, practice. Take a basic sentence make it long.

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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-:
Sentence-:One terrorist attack and the world starts to question the whole caboodle of Asians.
Meaning-:The whole lot
Cut the cackle-:
Sentence-:You need to cut the cackle when writing essay in IELTS.
Meaning-:Stop talking aimlessly and come to the point
Have a cadenza-:
Sentence-:The Indians had a cadenza when India lost the world cup semi final.
Meaning-:Be extremely agitated
Caesar’s wife-:
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-:
Sentence-:The terrorist work in cahoots.
Meaning-:Working or conspiring together often dishonestly; in collusion
At the drop of the hat
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
Sentence-: His grandfather is on his last legs.
Meaning-: in a very bad condition and will not last long
Old flames die hard
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
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
Sentence-: I don’t like people with the habit of putting paper over the cracks.
Meaning-: to hide something

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Yes And No

The only way to succeed in life is to stop being a yes and no and start becoming affirmative in your decision.

GO OUT OF YOUR WAY
Sentence-:You can always rely on her, she goes out of her way to ensure the work gets done.
Meaning-: make a special effort to do something
WEAR WELL
Sentence-: No matter how old you are you must always try to wear well.
Meaning-: Remain young-looking
KEEP A WEATHER EYE ON
Sentence-: You need to keep a weather eye on the activities of the terrorist group.
Meaning-: observe a situation very carefully, especially for developments
MAKE HEAVY WEATHER OF
Sentence-: You have just made a heavy weather of a simple task.
Meaning-: have unnecessary difficulty in dealing with task or problem
UNDER THE WEATHER
Sentence-: I am under the weather these days.
Meaning-: slightly unwell
BY THE YARD
Sentence-: the whole seller shops sell items by the yard.
Meaning-: in large number or quantities
SPIN A YARN
Sentence-: i have got the whole day, you can spin the yarn.
Meaning-: tell a story, especially a long and complicated one.
PUT YEARS ON SOMEONE
Sentence-: The new aging cream promises to put years on me.
Meaning-: make someone feel or look older
YES AND NO
Sentence-: the politicians always try to save themselves by answering with the yes and no.
Meaning-: partly and partly not
YESTERDAY’S MAN
Sentence-: when we all thought that amitabh is now a yesterday’s man, he came back and showed he is still better than the present.
Meaning-: a person especially a politician whose career is finished or past its peak.

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