11626930 English Improvement Er

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ENGLISH IMPROVEMENT idioms & phrases

Dr. T.K. Jain.

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Correct it : one of the member of the board did not agree to majority

decision.

• Corrected: one of the members of the board did not agree to majority decision.



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Correct it : one should mind his own business.

• Correct : one should mind one’s own business.



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Correct it : she is my cousin sister

• Correct : she is my cousin.



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Correct it : marketing manager is senior than sales manager

• Correct : marketing manager is senior to sales manager



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Convert into passive : whip the thief mercilessly.

• Let the thief be whipped mercilessly.



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The USA is the ….. (de facto/de jure) ruler of Iraq.

• The USA is the de facto ruler of Iraq.



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India has always been ___ for Pakistan (bete noire / bona fide).

• India has always been bete noire for Pakistan



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In a secular state, no person should be … ( protected / presecuted /

projected) for holding a particular religious belief.

• In a secular state, no person should be presecuted for holding a particular religious belief.



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Education is the ……. (manifestation/ malformation / manipulation) of the perfection

already in man.

• Education is the manifestation of the perfection already in man.



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What is Demat?

• Dematerialisation is to convert a physical security into a digital security



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What is a road show?

• It is to make public presentation about some project / idea / product – where we convey the the public the merits / demerits of some theme. It is part of publicity and propaganda



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Convert into an assertive sentence : who doesn’t know the

God exists. • Every one knows that the God exists.



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Who is philanthropist

• Philo = love

• Anthrop = mankind

• Thus philanthropist is the person who loves mankind



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What is a hangar ?

• The place where an aeroplane is kept is called hangar



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Close shave …

• Narrow escape



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Bosom friend

• Close friend



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Like a bull in a china shop

• Wrong person in wrong job

• (doing something opposite ).

• Too clumsy

• Unfit for the occasion

• (imagine, what will happen if a bull enters a china shop).



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Cold comfort

• Mere consolation

• No – concrete action – just plain words..

• Mere promise (no action).



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Crocodile tears

• Pretended sorrow

• (mere show - actually there is no sorrow).



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A dog in the manger

• Not to eat, nor allow others to eat

• A very honest person in tax department is like a dog in a manger (as tax department is a very corrupt department – don’t take it otherwise)

• A person who doesn’t take benefit, and also doesn’t allow others to benefit from the opportunity



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Bad blood

• Ill feeling

• (thinking bad about something).



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Backstairs influence..

• Use unfair means to achieve success

• It also means to influence someone’s wife to get the decision in favour.

• When Ravi couldn't get the work from the magistrate, he approached the wife of the magistrate and used backstairs influence to get the work done.



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Elbow room

• Adequate space / room for a person to move and work

• There is no elbow room in this compartment.



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Burning question..

• The hot issue

• The matter which is most discussed by people



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To split hairs …

• To find fault in others

• To argue over minor matters

• To fight over petty issues.



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To rule the roost

• To be able to take decision

• To be the leader on the occasion.



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Augean stables

• Something very difficult to clean (very dirty)

• To clean auguean stable is to do impossible.

• To remove corruption from India is like cleaning augean stables.



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Argus eyed..

• a person who is prejudiced

• A person who has ill feelings / jealousy towards some persons.



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To pour oil on the troubled water..

• To try to calm a dispute

• To try to make peace

• To try to make persons quite.



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Gift of the gab

• Art of speaking

• Gifted with the art of speaking

• He has the gift of the gab



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Cock and bull story

• A ridiculous and implausible story

• A story which seems unrealistic



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A fish out of water…

• A person who is uncomfortable

• In England, Kapsa will be like a fish out of water (because he is not comfortable in English).



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Scylia and Charybdis

• In two difficulties, from one has to be selected – both are very difficult and nauseating



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To tall talk

• To be boastful



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Ins and outs ..

• Complete details

• He know ins and outs of this situation..



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A mare’s nest …

• Worthless thing

• Actually mare doesn’t have a nest – therefore this is something which is not found.



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Snake in the grass

• Deceitful enemy

• Treacherous person



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Storm in the teacup

• To make a problem on a small matter



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To drive hard the bargain

• To be uncompromising

• To be very firm in arguments

• To be very strict

• To make the most in a deal



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To sail before the wind

• To take the benefit out of the opportunity

• We cannot sail against wind easily, on the other hand, we can easily sail with the wind (as the wind pushes a boat in that direction).

• To get the best out of the occasion.



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To weather the storm

• To overcome the difficulties and crisis



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To be on the wane

• To become weaker

• After joining our course, Goti has been on the wane (becoming weaker day after day).



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At sixes and sevens

• In utter confusion

• When things are disturbed, we say that they are in sixes and sevens.



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Out of frying pan into the fire

• To get out from one trouble and get into another (even more difficult problem).



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To take the wind out of one’s sails..

• To create difficulty / confusion for someone.

• In earlier times, boats used to move with the wind, if you take away wind from the boat, the boat would stop moving, thus to create problems for some person.



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To be in the same boat…

• To be in the same problems..



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To take something with a pinch of salt ..

• To regard something as exaggerated

• .



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To be in doldrums..

• To be in a state of depression

• To be in difficulty / confusion

• To be in stagnation

• In earlier times, the boards used to find it difficulty in some parts of the sea due to less wind, that area is called doldrums.



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Penelope’s web

• A work which goes on and never completes.

• One king asked Penelope to marry, she said that when her web would be complete, she would marry. She used to weave the web in the day and open it in night and unwind it. Thus the web would never be complete.



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Wild goose chase ..

• Foolish and worthless chase

• An effort that doesn’t give any reward



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Apple of discord

• A matter of dispute



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To show white feather …

• To show signs of cowardice



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To curry favour

• To be sycophant

• To win favour by gifts / flattery



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To eat one’s heart out

• To grieve bitterly



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To buy a pig in a poke

• To buy a thing without examining it (thus to buy worthless thing).



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To cry over split milk

• To complain about something, which has already happened…



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To build castles in the air

• To make imaginations – which are not realistic



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To boil down to

• To amount to

• To mean

• His arguments boil down to the points that we have discussed…



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The jury is divided on the issue of capital punishment.

• Correct sentence :

• The jury are divided on the issue of capital punishment.

• Use are – because the members of the jury are divided.



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When my father and I visited the police station to get release of ourunlawfully arrested neighbour, we

were unnecessarily harrassed/harassed/harrased

• When my father and I visited the police station to get release of ourunlawfully arrested neighbour, we were unnecessarily harassed



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It was not (see) that the construction of the tall multi-

storeyed buildingwas so weak that it would collapse

so soon.

It was not seen / visualised that the construction of the tall multi-storeyed building was so weak that it would collapse so soon.



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The old lady living in our locality died after a protracted illness. (replace by a suitable idiom)

• The old lady living in our locality passed away after a prolonged illness.



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Only God is all powerful

• Only God is omnipotent



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Loose sheets of paper are available at the stationery/stationary shop

nearby. (Choose the correct alternative.)

• Stationery

• Stationary = something which is fixed – which doesn’t move or change



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The day of publication of the Company Secretaries (Foundation) Result is fateful / fatal day for the

candidates. (Select the correct alternative.)

• Fatal



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A person to whom property is mortgaged.

• Mortgagor



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A person working as a judge between the two

parties and whose decision is binding for both.

parties at their request

• Arbitrager



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