Keep Your Nose To The Grindstone # Idioms For IELTS

If you really want to achieve a band 9 in IELTS, you need to keep your nose to the grindstone. Read more to find out what it means and keep going with your idioms preparation for IELTS.

TAKE A DIM VIEW OF

SENTENCE-: Don’t take a dim view of her, you don’t know what all she can achieve.
MEANING-: to regard someone or something with disapproving attitude

TILL DOOMSDAY

SENTENCE-: I am going to work for my dreams till doomsday.
MEANING-: something forever

PRACTICE WHAT YOU PREACH

SENTENCE-: Gandhiji believed in the philosophy of practice what you preach.
MEANING-: do what you advice others to do

A BITE AT THE CHERRY

SENTENCE-: They were working on the new code and I had a bite at the cherry.
MEANING-: an attempt or chance to do something

THE PARTY’S OVER

SENTENCE-: Get started boys, the party’s over.
MEANING-: the good times are over

ALL SYSTEM GO

SENTENCE-: All system’s go, I guess it’s time to move to the next level.
MEANING-: we are ready to proceed or something is working properly

GOSPEL TRUTH

SENTENCE-: I am going to succeed and this is a gospel truth.
MEANING-: the absolute truth

KEEP YOUR NOSE TO THE GRINDSTONE

SENTENCE-: People who achieve success are the ones who know how to keep their nose to the grindstone
MEANING-: to work hard continuously

FROM A TO B

SENTENCE-: She has been along with me for A to B of the journey.
MEANING-: from the starting point to the destination

KNOW WHAT YOU ARE ABOUT

SENTENCE-: You can trust him, he knows what he is about.
MEANING-: to know the consequences of your actions and how to solve them.

PLAY THE DEVIL

SENTENCE-: Hitler might not have thought that he would play the devil for the future of Germany.
MEANING-: to affect something badly

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