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Idioms For IELTS

Stop making castles in air or else you will soon meet your waterloo. Didn’t understand a word? Read more and find out.

Make castles in the air
Sentence-: To achieve success, you need to stop making castles in air and start working towards the goal.
Meaning-: – plans or hopes that have very little chances of happening.
Make a bee line for
Sentence-: stop wandering and make a bee line for a band 9 in IELTS.
Meaning-:to go directly towards something.
Monkey around
Sentence-: If you really want to achieve high score in IELTS, you need to stop monkeying around.
Meaning-: to waste time here and there
My hands are full
Sentence-: I am sorry I cannot take any more task, my hands are full.
Meaning-: I am busy.
Meet ones waterloo
Sentence-: You need to work hard else in no time you would meet your waterloo.
Meaning-: meet ones final end

WHAT’S THE DAMAGE
SENTENCE-:So, are you buying it? yes, but what is the cost of damage?
MEANING-: it is used to ask the cost of damage
AS NEAR AS DAMMIT
SENTENCE-:Viswanathan Anand is as near as dammit.
MEANING-: as close to being accurate as makes no difference
NOT BE WORTH A DAMN
SENTENCE-: A broken pen is not worthy a damn.
MEANING-: HAVE NO VALUE OR VALIDITY AT ALL
DAMNED IF YOU DO AND DAMNED IF YOU DON’T
SENTENCE-: If I say anything about religion in India it is like damned if I did and damned if I don’t.
MEANING-: in some situations whatever you do is going to attract criticism.
DO YOUR DAMNEDEST
SENTENCE-:If you do your damnedest, nothing else matters.
MEANING-: do or try to do your utmost to do something

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Spin The Right Yarn

In the end it is all about how beautiful your story of life is and how well you spin the right yarn.

By the yard
Sentence-: Don’t worry about the food, it is present by the yard.
Meaning-: in large numbers or quantities
Spin a yarn
Sentence-: I have lots of time, go on, spin the yarn.
Meaning-: tell a story, especially a long and complicated one.
Like a streak
Sentence-: No one ever becomes successful like a streak.
Meaning-: very fast
Against the stream
Sentence-: Most successful political leaders thought against the stream.
Meaning-: Against the prevailing view or tendency
On stream
Sentence-: You can easily get the job, it is on the stream.
Meaning-: In or into operation or existence; available
BEAR DOWN
SENTENCE-:The Britishers were able to bear down the rulers of India.
MEANING-: overthrow or crush by force
PUT SOMEONE IN THE WAY OF
SENTENCE-: Just put me in the way of success and I’ll show who I am.
MEANING-: give a person an opportunity
THE WAY OF THE WORLD
SENTENCE-:If you don’t like the way of the world, you need to take responsibility to change it.
MEANING-: a typical way in which people around the world behave and things happen.
WAY AND MEANS
SENTENCE-:Success sounds good only if your ways and means are correct.
MEANING-: the ways and means of person for achieving something.
UP THE WAZOO
SENTENCE-:Why did you ordered so much!! It is up the wazoo.
MEANING-: in great quantities
THE WEAK LINK
SENTENCE-:Everyone has a weak link, you just need to find it and hit it hard.
MEANING-: the point in an organization or system that is least vulnerable and is unlikely to be dependent on.

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Are You Loaded For Bear ?

You need not to simply prepare for IELTS, you need to be answer,”are you loaded for bear”. What do I mean? Read more and find the answers.

A beam in your eye
Sentence-: before questioning someone, be sure you don’t have a beam in your eye.
Meaning-: a fault that is greater in yourself than in the person you are finding fault with.
Off beam
Sentence-: it really takes a strong support system to bring you back when you are off beam.
Meaning-: on the wrong track
Loaded for bear
Sentence-: you must be loaded for bear before you give your IELTS exam.
Meaning-: fully prepared for any eventuality, typically a confrontation or challenge
Beard the lion in his den
Sentence-: it is easy to win with a cat, what makes the difference is whether you beard the lion in his den.
Meaning-: confront or challenge someone on their own ground
Like a bear with a sore head
Sentence-: my brother is like a bear with a sore head
Meaning-: very irritable.
Curiosity Killed The Cat
Sentence-: It is good to be patient because sometimes even curiosity can kill the cat.
Meaning-: being too inquisitive led to an unpleasant situation
Cut Corners
Sentence-: I want you to save some money for darker times but I don’t want you to cut corners.
Meaning-: to do something badly in order to save money
Devil’s Advocate
Sentence-: The way he speaks and argues, it looks like he is devil’s advocate.
Meaning-: to counter someone’s argument
Don’t put all your eggs in one basket
Sentence-: It is good to take risks but it is stupid to put all the eggs in one basket.
Meaning-: Don’t put all your resources in one possibility
Drastic times call for drastic measures
Sentence-: If you want to get a band 9 in IELTS remember, drastic times call for drastic actions.
Meaning-: if you are extremely desperate to achieve something you need to put in drastic actions

So go on, be loaded for bear and then beard the lion in his den.

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Full Of Beans

Life is meant live in full of beans. Go on read more and find out what I mean by “full of beans”.

Your guess is as good as mine
Sentence-: If you really know the answer tell me, otherwise your guess is as good as mine.
Meaning-: To have no idea about a particular thing
Whole Nine Yards
Sentence-:I don’t want a piece of it from here and there; I want the whole nine yards.
Meaning-: all of it
Hear something straight from the horse mouth
Sentence-: You may either make guesses here and there or hear to something straight from the horse mouth.
Meaning-: To hear something from authoritative person.
Taste Of Your Own Medicine
Sentence-: It is easy to command but the real you is discovered only when you have tasted your own medicine.
Meaning-: something happens with you that you were doing with someone else
Take a grain of salt
Sentence-: There will be many who will advice you; it is your choice whether to follow it or take a grain of salt.
Meaning-: to not take something seriously
On your beam ends
Sentence-: you need to make sure that when you are on your beam ends, you have ways to work it out.
Meaning-: near the end of your resources
Full of beans
Sentence-: Archit is always full of beans.
Meaning-: lively; in high spirits
Give someone beans
Sentence-: The teacher gave archie some beans when he came late for three days in a row.
Meaning-: Scold or deal severely with a person
A hill of beans
Sentence-: what others think of you must be a hill of beans for you.
Meaning-: something of little importance or value
Beat a hasty retreat
Sentence-: he beat the hasty retreat when Avinash offered him alcohol.
Meaning-: withdraw, typically in order to avoid something unpleasant

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