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
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Sentence-:I was taken aback by the problems faced by the Indian farmers.
Meaning-:Shock, surprise, or disconcert someone - Of your own accord
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Sentence-:The decision to quit the job was of my own accord
Meaning-:Voluntarily or without outside intervention - Give a good account of yourself
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Sentence-:What was that welkin ring?
Meaning-: make a very loud sound