Tag: CSS PMS English

English Grammar: Idioms And Phrases (“Set-M/N”) | for CSS, PMS, PCS, NTS

Maiden speech
(One’s first speech) – Mehreen’s maiden speech was a complete failure. She cut a sorry figure by forgetting her points.

Make a bolt for it
(Run away suddenly) – The prisoners made a bolt for it when the guard wasn’t looking.

Make a clean breast of
(To make full confession) – The judge will give the convict a lighter sentence if he makes a clean breast of his involvement. (ii) She resolved to make a clean breast of it before she died.

Make a clean sweep
(To get rid of everything unnecessary or unwanted) – The new manager made a clean sweep of all the lazy people in the department.

English Grammar: Idioms And Phrases (“Set-K/L”) | for CSS, PMS, PCS, NTS

Keep a secret:
(Not tell anyone else) – I don’t think very high of him, but please keep it a secret.

Keep hold of:
(not let go) – You should have kept hold of the horse’s reins.

Keep one’s word:
(Abide by promises one has made; carry out undertakings or obligation into which one has entered) – You may depend upon his doing what he says, for he is a person who always keeps his word.

Kick up (a row, a fuss etc.):
(Make a noise, a row, a fuss etc.) – A crowd of youths outside the door were kicking up such a noise that we could scarcely hear ourselves speak.

English Grammar: Idioms And Phrases (“Set-H/I”) | for CSS, PMS, PCS, NTS

Hang one’s head:
(To look ashamed or embarrassed) – we all hung our heads when our team was last in the competition.

Hard and fast:
(Strict) – There are some hard and fast rules in every walk of life, and we must follow them.

Have a bone to pick:
(Have a cause of complaint) – I’ve a bone to pick with you about your behaviour yesterday.

Have one’s back to the wall:
(To be in a very difficult or desperate situation) – He certainly has his back to the wall as he has lost his job and cannot find another one.

Head or tail:
(Any sense) – I could not make head or tail of his account of the accident.

High and Dry:
(out of water; in a dry place; safe) – Just where the eastern curve begins stands Kingscliff, a cluster of white cottages, fronted by a white beach, whereon some half-dozen of stout fishing-smacks are hauled up high and dry.

English Grammar: Idioms And Phrases (“Set-G”) | for CSS, PMS, PCS, NTS

Generation gap
(The difference between the attitudes of young and old people) – The generation gap often causes young boys and girls run away from home.

Get off the track
(Be diverted from the main subject of discussion) Let’s not get off the track. We’re talking about films, and not TV programmes.

Get on one’s nerves
(Annoy one to the extent of causing nervous irritation) – The constant howling of that dog gets on my nerves.

Get the better of
(Overcome, defeat, win) – My wife always gets the better of our quarrels.

Get to the bottom of
(To discover the explanation of the real facts of (a mystery etc.) – I’ll get to the bottom this affair if it takes me a year!