Hi, Welcome to IQ Curator, This section is intended to serve the needs of the aspirants preparing for “English Grammar” in different competitive exams. The practice for English Grammar provided in this section will help in attaining the skills required for handling the English Grammar with ease.
Here we will cover all the topics given below in English Grammar which will be very helpful for you to crack all government exams.
Essay, Letter Writing, Press Release/Appeal, Report Writing, Writing on Visual Information, Formal Speech, Precis Writing, Reading Comprehension, English Grammar (noun, pronoun, adjective, verb, adverb, preposition, conjunction, and interjection.), Translation, etc.
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50 Important Idioms And Phrases Asked In All Competitive Exams.
1. At sixes and seven – In disorder or confusion
2. Lose head – Panic
3. Take to task – To criticize severely/ to punish
4. Sit in judgement – To pass judgement(or comment on someone ) especially when you have no authority
5. Leave in the lurch – To desert someone
6. Cry over spilt milk – Cry over irreparable loss
7. Bad blood – Active enmity
8. Close shave – A narrow escape
9. Grease palms – To bribe someone
10. Carrot and stick – Reward and punishment policy
11. To cut teeth – To gain experience of something for the first time
12. Cut no ice – Had no influence
13. Close the book - Stop working on something
14. In fits and starts - Irregularly
15. Bird’s eye view – An overview
16. Run in the same groove – Clash with each other
17. Keep your head – Remain calm
18. Pull strings – Use personal influence
19. Pot luck dinner – Dinner where somebody brings something to eat
20. To hit below the belt – To attack unfairly
21. All at sea - Puzzled
22. Sought after – Wanted by many people because it’s of good quality or difficult to find/Pursued by
23. Build castle in the air - Daydreaming
24. On the spur of the moment – To act suddenly, without planning
25. To have something up one’s sleeve – To have a secret plan
26. A red letter day – An important or joyful occasion in one’s life
27. To explore every avenue – To try every opportunity
28. At one’s beck and call – Ready to follow orders/ To be dominated by someone
29. By fair or foul means – In honest or dishonest way
30. Status quo – As it is/ unchanged position
31. To burn candle at both ends – To be extravagant/ Spend without any worry
32. To hit the jackpot – To make money quickly
33. To bring to light – to reveal
34. At the eleventh hour – At the last possible moment
35. Go scot-free – To escape without punishment
36. To shed crocodile tears – To pretend grief
37. To look down one’s nose – To regard with contempt
38. To miss the bus – To miss an opportunity
39. A white elephant – Costly and troublesome possession, with much use to its owner
40. To call spade a spade – To be frank
41. To fight tooth and nail – To fight heroically, in very determined way
42. Birds of same feather – Persons of same character
43. Take exception – To object over something
44. High handed – Using authority in an unreasonable way, overbearing
45. Too fond of one’s own voice – To like talking without wanting to listen to other people/Very selfish
46. By leaps and bounds – Rapidly
47. An open book – Straight forward and honest dealings
48. Fall short – Fail to meet expectation/ have no effect
49. Heart to heart talk – Frank talk
50. Give the game away – Give out the secret(unintentionally)
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