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Walking Idioms

Are you a walking disaster? Or do you like to be on the wallaby? Do you wish to walk tall? Or do you wish to understand what I am saying?? Well, if it is the last one, go on and read more to find out the literal meaning of the idioms.

WALK TALL
SENTENCE-: The President walk tall.
MEANING-: justifiable pride
GO WALKABOUT
SENTENCE-: Where are you going? Umm, no we are just taking a walk about.
MEANING-: wander around from place to place in a protracted or leisurely way.
GO WALKIES
SENTENCE-: The police is extensively searching for Akash, after all he was the only one who went walkies.
MEANING-: go missing, especially as a result of theft
A WALKING
SENTENCE-: Avinash has been a walking disaster for Uttarakhand.
MEANING-: someone who notably embodies the characteristics of something.
DRIVE SOMEONE UP THE WALL
SENTENCE-: Don’t drive me up the wall, you are not ready yet to face the consequences.
MEANING-: make someone very irritated or angry
UP AGAINST THE WALL
SENTENCE-: the disaster led thousands of people up against the wall.
MEANING-: in great trouble or difficulty
ON THE WALLABY
SENTENCE-: millions of people were on the wallaby during the great depression of the 1930s.
MEANING-: unemployed and having no fixed address
A WAR OF NERVES
SENTENCE-: We are often caught in the war of nerves with our colleagues.
MEANING-: a struggle in which opponents try to wear each other down by psychological means.
A WAR OF WORDS
SENTENCE-: With the coming of INTERNET, war of word is the most common thing to notice.
MEANING-: prolonged debate conducted by means of spoken or printed word
HAVE BEEN IN THE WAR
SENTENCE-: I know how the blood looks like because I have been in the war.
MEANING-: have been hurt or injured

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The Gaiety Of Nations??

Life will bE simpler if you lived in gaiety of nations. Gaiety of what?? This is the funny part about idioms, what they actually mean is not what they literally mean. Read more and find it out.

BELOW THE GAFF
SENTENCE-: They leaked the information below the gaff.
MEANING-: reveal or let out a plot or secret
THE GAIETY OF NATIONS
SENTENCE-: “Why are you so happy, anything special?”. “No, just the gaiety of nations”.
MEANING-: general cheerfulness or amusement
GO YOUR GAIT
SENTENCE-: Life will always give you chance to go your own gait, the choice is then yours.
MEANING-: pursue your own course
THE GAIETY OF NATIONS??

Practice The Idioms Consistently

PLAY TO THE GALLERY
SENTENCE-: Don’t take him seriously, he just knows how to play to the gallery.
MEANING-: act in an exaggerated or histrionic manner, especially in order to appeal to popular taste
THE GAME IS UP
SENTENCE-: The thieves had not way out, there game was up.
MEANING-: The plan, deception or crime is revealed or foiled.
BE A DAB HAND
SENTENCE-: Picasso was dab hand at painting.
MEANING-: be expert at
LOOK DAGGERS AT
SENTENCE-:The police men looked daggers at thieves.
MEANING-: glare angrily or venomously at
RATTLE YOUR DAGS
SENTENCE-:We are getting late!! Rattle your dags.
MEANING-: HURRY UP
FRESH AS A DAISY
SENTENCE-:People who are successful often behave fresh as a daisy all day.
MEANING-: VERY BRIGHT AND CHEERFUL
PUSHING UP THE DAISIES
SENTENCE-: There is no point pushing up the daisies, what is over, is over.
MEANING-: dead and burried

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Idioms For May 20

Idioms are such that if you don’t practice them everyday, you are losing more than you gain. So, to ensure that you gain everyday and get a high band in IELTS, lets have a look at idioms for may 20.

If studying abroad ticks you, say a thumbs up to ieltsband7. Read on and figure out what I mean.

Thumbs up
Sentence-: when I asked her about her result, she said thumbs up.
Meaning-: an indication of satisfaction or approval
Under someone’s thumb
Sentence-: He is completely under her thumb.
Meaning-: completely under someone’s influence
What makes someone tick
Sentence-: life is lot more meaningful if you know what ticks you.
Meaning-: what motivates someone.
Be tickets
Sentence-: the dance performance was the ticket to the show.
Meaning-: be the end
Have tickets on yourself
Sentence-: people who have tickets on themselves, if are not humble, irritate others.
Meaning-: be excessively vain or proud of yourself
Spin your wheels
Sentence-: Stop spinning your wheel, and start doing something better.
Meaning-: to waste your time
The wheel of fortune
Sentence-: I don’t know how it happened, may be the wheel of fortune was pointing at me.
Meaning-: The wheel of luck which is assumed to come to you randomly
Wheels within wheels
Sentence-: It might just look simple but trust me it has wheels within wheels.
Meaning-: to indicate that a situation is complicated and affected by other influences
Whip The Cat
Sentence-: You are not responsible for it, stop whipping the cat.
Meaning-: be sorry or moan
Whips Of
Sentence-: I have whips of pens, if you want them you take from me.
Meaning-: large quantity

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Be On Tenterhooks # Idioms For IELTS

If you work hard for IELTS you will surely be on tenterhooks before the results. On tenterhooks? Go on prepare for IELTS, read more and find out what does it mean to be on tenterhooks.

That would be telling
Sentence-: letting you see through the records would be telling.
Meaning-: that would be divulging confidential information.
There’s no telling
Sentence-: there’s no telling on when the next earthquake will strike Nepal.
Meaning-: it’s impossible to know what has happened or will happen
On tenterhooks
Sentence-: three days before the result was announced, I was on tenterhooks.
Meaning-: in a state of suspension or agitation because of uncertainty about a future event.
Been there, done that
Sentence-: live life you are born now. Been there done that attitude takes away all the fun.
Meaning-: used to express past experience of or familiarity with something
Be there for someone
Sentence-: it is good to make promises, but to be there for someone, makes the difference.
Meaning-: be available to provide support or comfort for someone, especially at a time of adversity.
Once in a blue moon
Sentence-: She laughs once in a blue moon.
Meaning-: very rarely
On the hook
Sentence-: Go ask Anmol about this, she is on the hook for this.
Meaning-: responsible for something
Parrot Fashion
Sentence-: Kritika learns her chapters in parrot fashion.
Meaning-: learn word to word
Poker face
Sentence-: Daisy is poker face, I don’t know what she is hiding.
Meaning-: someone who does not shows any emotions
Over the moon
Sentence-: The day Harvard University called me for my acceptance, I was over the moon.
Meaning-: very happy

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