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Cut It Out # Idioms For IELTS

Life in itself, is beautiful, right? But, sometimes, here or there, we do make goals, things we want to achieve in life. To do that, one needs to cut things out. This time we are looking at some of the idioms related to goals and dreams !! If you want to succeed, cut out on the inessentials of your life.

Sleep on it
Sentence: You need to sleep on it before you ask other people to act on it.
Meaning: Think about something before making decision.
Cut it out
Sentence: His songs are so irritating, can you please just cut it out!
Meaning: stop doing something bad
Give someone a hand
Sentence: In this world, where there is terrorism, loneliness, a brighter world can only be created if we start giving the needy a hand.
Meaning: to help
Keep one’s chin up
Sentence: The path to success can be difficult but if you really want it, all you have to do is keep you chin up and your desire burning.
Meaning: Remain brave and keep on trying
To get the ball rolling
Sentence: After all the hard work I have put in starting the venture, I guess the time has come when we can get the ball rolling.
Meaning: start something especially something big
The thick of something
Sentence: Chandini Chowk is the thick of Delhi.
Meaning: the busiest or the crowded part of something
Thick and fast
Sentence: India won thick and fast.
Meaning: rapidly and in great numbers.
In the nature of things
Sentence: It is really hard to change something that is in the nature of it.
Meaning: something that is inevitable.
Go nap
Sentence:It takes guts to go nap.
Meaning: risk everything in an attempt.
The nature of the beast
Sentence: His laziness is the nature of the beast.
Meaning: something that cannot be changed about someone and must be accepted.

If you want to get a high score in IELTS, remember, all you got to do is keep your chin up and when the time arrives let the ball rolling.

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Describe People Accurately-2

There are so many people around you. Some of them work hard, some get angry easily. Earlier you learnt few words to describe people. We will carry on with it and grasp some more words.
1.Hard-working-: If you really try to do your work in the best possible way and if you are truly devoted to your work, you can call yourself a hard-working person.
Sentence-: Hard-work is the first step towards being successful.

2.Self-conscious-: it means similar to embarrassed or you can say you feel uncomfortable.
Sentence-: in my initial days of performing live, I used to be so self-conscious, because I realized that there are so many people looking at me.

3.Cool-headed-: You call someone cool-headed if they are they are very relaxed person and don’t panic easily.
Sentence-: we need doctors who are cool headed because they need to handle quite tough situations.

4.Hot-headed-: this is not an opposite of cool-headed. It means you just get angry quite easily.
Sentence-: You are so hot headed; do you even know the meaning of smile and courtesy?

5.Two-faced-: It does not mean the person literally has two faces. So, if there is someone who pretends to be someone on face and behaves differently behind your back, call them two-faced.
Sentence-: the girl is so damn two-faced. She is so nice on face, but once you turn back, she is the meanest of all.

Express yourself. Express accurately and increase your band. Live your dream.
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Describe People Accurately

Often in conversations, we like to describe people and sometimes even ourselves. For example, if there is a person who gets angry fast, you say, “Oh he gets angry too fast”. But then when you start repeating this pattern, it could lead you to lose some marks in IELTS. It directly shows that you lack good vocabulary. Well, English provides you with some easy adjectives that could be used. These are the compound adjectives. But then what is a compound adjective?

It is a combination of two or more adjectives separated by a hyphen to describe a noun. So, for today, let’s begin with the compound adjectives you can use to describe someone :

Open-Minded

Describe someone or maybe yourself, open-minded when they/you like to try on new things. You are okay with knowing about the new culture and talking to new people.
Sentence-: If only the society was more open-minded, we might have less wars and more love!

Closed-Minded

This is the opposite of open-minded. A person is closed-minded if he/she gets uncomfortable trying new things. Or they have set patterns and rules or opinions for themselves, which they don’t want to change.
Sentence: Most of the fights can be stopped if people start looking at things from other people’s perspective also, rather than just being closed-minded.

Absent-Minded

You call someone absent-minded when they are so much engrossed in something that other things just lose their importance for them. Or maybe they are thinking about one thing that they don’t know what is going on elsewhere.
Sentence-: Anvesha is absent-minded. She forgets all about her assignments and responsibilities.

Laid-back

A laid person is someone who doesn’t care much about things. They are the ones who rarely get angry or anxious.
Sentence: she is so laid-back, I sometimes doubt, if she would ever be able to do something.

There are so many people around you. Some of them work hard, some get angry easily. Earlier you learned a few words to describe people. We will carry on with it and grasp some more words.

Hard-working

If you really try to do your work in the best possible way and if you are truly devoted to your work, you can call yourself a hard-working person.
Sentence Hard-work is the first step towards being successful.

Self-conscious

It means similar to embarrassed or you can say you feel uncomfortable.
Sentence: in my initial days of performing live, I used to be so self-conscious, because I realized that there are so many people looking at me.

Cool-headed

You call someone cool-headed if they are they are a very relaxed person and don’t panic easily.
Sentence: we need doctors who are cool-headed because they need to handle quite tough situations.

Hot-headed

This means you just get angry quite easily.
Sentence: You are so hot-headed; do you even know the meaning of smile and courtesy?

Two-faced

It does not mean the person literally has two faces. So, if there is someone who pretends to be someone on the face and behaves differently behind your back, call them two-faced.
Sentence: the girl is so damn two-faced. She is so nice on the face, but once you turn back, she is the meanest of all.

Express yourself. Express accurately and increase your band. Live your dream.

Go on. Practice them for today. There might be people around you who fit into these words. Use these words for them, experiment more and make them a part of your speaking.

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Express Anger With Phrasal Verbs

We all have expressions. Sometimes we feel happy, sometimes sad and sometimes angry. When you will be giving the speaking section, there could be chances that you need to explain to the examiner what the things you don’t like are. In such cases, always saying, I don’t like this and then I hate that, would quite annoying for them, and could lead to you loosing marks. Phrasal verbs could be a good rescue for you.

Verb is an action. Phrasal verb has a preposition with it. Phrasal verbs are very common when we speak. The most interesting part about them is that the preposition attached to the verbs can change the meaning of these words. For e.g. , get off and get into. Although they have the same verb get, the preposition has changed their meaning. Get off means to go away and get into means to get excited about doing something.
So, let’s get started with the phrasal verbs to express anger.

Suppose you don’t like loud music. When you hear it, you tend to get a little angry. So, we will now try to describe it using the following phrasal verbs.
1.Gets to ___-: loud music gets to me.
2.Winds _____ up-: loud music winds me up.
3.Piss _____ off-: this one is a little rude. Loud music pisses me off.
4.Works___ up-: loud music works me up.
5.Ticks ___ off-: loud music ticks me off.
All of these mean to make someone angry or to make angry. You can replace the “___” with anything you like. For e.g. loud music winds her up. Or corruption usually works Indians up.

So, go on, use them and express yourself more.
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