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Tuesday, April 28, 2020

Popular idioms with meaning and sentences (Part 1)

Popular idioms with meaning and sentences (Part 1)  1.Take a hike english idioms with meaning and sentences  2. Spill the beans english idioms with meaning and sentences  3. Hit the books english idioms with meaning and sentences   4. Golden goose english idioms with meaning and sentences  5. Better late than never english idioms with meaning and sentences
Idioms are very common and are used in regular and familiar conversation, so today I am going to cover few idioms and their meaning

You can use this idioms is daily conversations both written and spoken English for practice.....

So let's start with today's  idioms

Learn and practice these Idioms and use this in your daily life


1.Take a hike
When you want someone to leave or go away in a rude way you can use this phrase 

- This is my seat - take a hike




- Its enough now. Please ask him to take a hike i can't take it anymore


2.Spill the beans
spill the beans does not actually means to spill the beans it means to leak out the secret, to tell someone the secret.....to tell something that was supposed to a secret

- He accidentally spilled the beans when he told his friend about the baby's room color

-I am a good secret keeper i will not spill the beans please let me help 

- don't spill the beans it's a surprise party for her

- Who spilled the beans ?

3. Hit the books
It simply means to study
- I won't be able to join you, I need to hit the books this weekend

- It's time you stop playing and hit the books

4. Golden goose 
something that provides one with some advantage,wealth or profit and is usually misused (mostly very good source of income or money)

- This business is his golden goose he will never give on it

- The stock he has is his golden goose

5. Better late than never
It simply means to do something late than never doing it or if someone is going to arrive it means he better arrives instead of not arriving

- we were waiting for you, but anyways better late then never

-She was finally paying the rent. well 
better late than never

6.Blessing in disguise
When something bad happen but eventually turns out good for you you can use this idiom ( it could be a difficult situation which has a good outcome)

- Losing that flat turned out to be a blessing in disguise for her as she got a better flat at reasonable rates

-Not getting the bank job was blessing in disguise for me as I was able to explore new field and find out the hidden talent in me

7. Go an extra mile
It simply means to make extra efforts to help someone or to achieve something

- Anna is always ready to go an extra mile to help elderly people

- It's always suggested to go an extra mile to maintain customer relation

8. A Piece of cake
Something that is very simple or easy

- He will help you with this; it's a piece of cake of him

- Yesterday’s maths test was a piece of cake

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