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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

Sentence-:I was taken aback by the problems faced by the Indian farmers.
Meaning-:Shock, surprise, or disconcert someone

Of your own accord

Sentence-:The decision to quit the job was of my own accord
Meaning-:Voluntarily or without outside intervention

Give a good account of yourself

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sentence-:What was that welkin ring?
Meaning-: make a very loud sound

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WHY STUDY IDIOMS?

The only way to succeed in life is to stop being a yes and no and start becoming affirmative in your decision.

GO OUT OF YOUR WAY

Sentence-:You can always rely on her, she goes out of her way to ensure the work gets done.
Meaning-: make a special effort to do something

WEAR WELL

Sentence-: No matter how old you are you must always try to wear well.
Meaning-: Remain young-looking

KEEP A WEATHER EYE ON

Sentence-: You need to keep a weather eye on the activities of the terrorist group.
Meaning-: observe a situation very carefully, especially for developments

MAKE HEAVY WEATHER OF

Sentence-: You have just made a heavy weather of a simple task.
Meaning-: have unnecessary difficulty in dealing with task or problem

UNDER THE WEATHER

Sentence-: I am under the weather these days.
Meaning-: slightly unwell

BY THE YARD

Sentence-: the whole seller shops sell items by the yard.
Meaning-: in large number or quantities

SPIN A YARN

Sentence-: i have got the whole day, you can spin the yarn.
Meaning-: tell a story, especially a long and complicated one.

PUT YEARS ON SOMEONE

Sentence-: The new aging cream promises to put years on me.
Meaning-: make someone feel or look older

YES AND NO

Sentence-: the politicians always try to save themselves by answering with the yes and no.
Meaning-: partly and partly not

YESTERDAY’S MAN

Sentence-: when we all thought that amitabh is now a yesterday’s man, he came back and showed he is still better than the present.
Meaning-: a person especially a politician whose career is finished or past its peak.

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