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

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

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

See with half an eye: (To see without difficulty)
Anyone could have seen with half an eye that she was upset.

Serve one’s needs: (Meet one’s requirements)
This car should serve his needs well.

Set an example: (To establish as a model)
We must set an example for the children.

Set measure to: (limit)
I advised him to set measures to his ambitions.

Show one’s face: (Appear in public) Idioms And Phrases

After his irresponsible behaviour yesterday he dared not show his face again.

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

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

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

Pass away:
(Die) Amir’s father passed away last night.

Play with fire:
(To do something dangerous or risky) – She knew she was playing with by having an affair with a married man.

Pluck up courage:
(Become brave) – He finally plucked up courage and went to the Surgeon.

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

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

Of no avail
(Of no use)–My attempts to reform my brother was of no avail.

Of one’s own accord
(Of one’s own free will) – He has resigned his job of his own accord.

Of the first water
(Of the highest quality) – She was a beauty of the first water; He is a television journalist of the first thing about cars.

Off and on
(Irregularly; from time to time) – Waqqar comes to my house off and on.

On the eve of
(The day before; just before) – The unwilling bride escaped from her house on the eve of her wedding.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

English Grammar - Idioms And Phrases Set-H-I for CSS, PMS, PCS, NTS

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.

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

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

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!

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

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

Eat one’s heart out:
(To make oneself ill by being unhappy, by longing for something one cannot have etc.) – The little girl was eating her heart out because she was not allowed to have a dog.

Every now and then:
(frequently, after the lapse of short intervals) – Every now and then a countryman would burst into tears.

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

Idioms And Phrases (“Set-C”) | for CSS, PMS, PCS, NTS

De facto: (Real; having actual possession) – It was, we believe impossible to find, from the Himalayas to Mysore, a single Government which was at once a Government de facto and a Government de jure.

Dog cheap: (Very cheap) – You got the fowls dog cheap at a dollar forty the dozen.

Dog one’s footsteps: (Constantly follow one, as a dog follows close its master’s heels: importunately thrust one’s presence upon someone) – I regret having suggested that I might be able to help him, forever since then he has dogged my footsteps.

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

English Grammar: Idioms And Phrases

Call a spade a spade:
(Speak plainly: say precisely what one means) – He was the kind of person who always calls a spade a spade.

Call to account:
(Take to task, demand explanation) – The cashier was called to account for the shortage in the cash balance.

Carry weight:
(Have influence with) – What he says carries weight with the management.

Cast pearls before swine:
(offer or express something valuable before an unappreciative audience) It didn’t take me long to note that they were not the lovers of poetry, and my talk about poetry was like casting pearls before swine.

Child’s play:
(Something very easy; work demanding no effort) – It’s not a child’s play to pass competitive examinations.

Close shave:
(narrow escape from danger or misfortune) – She had a close shave today. She stepped into the road and was nearly killed by a truck.

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