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Profession, Work or Study Idioms (for CSS and related Competitive Exams)

Profession, Work or Study Idioms
for CSS and related Competitive Exams)

Agony aunt
An agony aunt is a newspaper columnist who gives advice to people having problems, especially personal ones.

All in a day’s work
If something is all in a day’s work, it is nothing special.

Bad workers always blame their tools
“A bad worker always blames their tools” – If somebody does a job badly or loses in a game and claims that they were let down by their equipment, you can use this to imply that this was not the case.

Baker’s dozen
A Baker’s dozen is 13 rather than 12.