English Improvement Idioms & Phrases: Afterscho Ol

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Dr. T.K. Jain.
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MATERIAL 2
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.

Correct it : she is my cousin sister
• Correct : she is my cousin.

Correct it : marketing manager is
senior than sales manager
• Correct : marketing manager is senior to
sales manager

Convert into passive : whip the thief
mercilessly.
• Let the thief be whipped mercilessly.

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

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

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.

Education is the …….
(manifestation/ malformation /
manipulation) of the perfection
already in man.
• Education is the manifestation of the

perfection already in man.

What is Demat?
• Dematerialisation is to convert a physical
security into a digital security

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

Convert into an assertive sentence
: who doesn’t know the God exists.
• Every one knows that the God exists.

Who is philanthropist
• Philo = love
• Anthrop = mankind
• Thus philanthropist is the person who

loves mankind

What is a hangar ?
• The place where an aeroplane is kept is
called hangar

Close shave …
• Narrow escape

Bosom friend
• Close friend

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).

Cold comfort
• Mere consolation
• No – concrete action – just plain words..
• Mere promise (no action).

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

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
Bad blood
• Ill feeling
• (thinking bad about something).

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.

Elbow room
• Adequate space / room for a person to
move and work
• There is no elbow room in this
compartment.

Burning question..
• The hot issue
• The matter which is most discussed by
people

To split hairs …
• To find fault in others
• To argue over minor matters
• To fight over petty issues.

To rule the roost
• To be able to take decision
• To be the leader on the occasion.

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.

Argus eyed..
• a person who is prejudiced
• A person who has ill feelings / jealousy
towards some persons.

To pour oil on the troubled water..
• To try to calm a dispute
• To try to make peace
• To try to make persons quite.

Gift of the gab
• Art of speaking
• Gifted with the art of speaking
• He has the gift of the gab

Cock and bull story
• A ridiculous and implausible story
• A story which seems unrealistic

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).

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

To tall talk
• To be boastful

Ins and outs ..
• Complete details
• He know ins and outs of this situation..

A mare’s nest …
• Worthless thing
• Actually mare doesn’t have a nest –
therefore this is something which is not
found.

Snake in the grass
• Deceitful enemy
• Treacherous person

Storm in the teacup
• To make a problem on a small matter

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

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.

To weather the storm
• To overcome the difficulties and crisis

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

At sixes and sevens
• In utter confusion
• When things are disturbed, we say that
they are in sixes and sevens.

Out of frying pan into the fire
• To get out from one trouble and get into
another (even more difficult problem).

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.

To be in the same boat…
• To be in the same problems..

To take something with a pinch of
salt ..
• To regard something as exaggerated
• .

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.

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.

Wild goose chase ..
• Foolish and worthless chase
• An effort that doesn’t give any reward

Apple of discord
• A matter of dispute

To show white feather …
• To show signs of cowardice

To curry favour
• To be sycophant
• To win favour by gifts / flattery

To eat one’s heart out
• To grieve bitterly

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

To cry over split milk
• To complain about something, which has
already happened…

To build castles in the air
• To make imaginations – which are not
realistic

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

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.

When my father and I visited the
police station to get release of our
unlawfully arrested neighbour, we
were unnecessarily harrassed/
harassed/harrased
• When my father and I visited the police

station to get release of our
unlawfully arrested neighbour, we were
unnecessarily harassed
It was not (see) that the
construction of the tall multi-
storeyed building
was 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.

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.

Only God is all powerful
• Only God is omnipotent

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

The day of publication of the
Company Secretaries (Foundation)
Result is fateful / fatal day for the
candidates. (Select the correct
alternative.)
• Fatal

A person to whom property is
mortgaged.
• Mortgagor

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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• These workshops are great moments of
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• AFTERSCHO☺OL permits you to pursue
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• In a secular state, no person should be

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• Thus philanthropist is the person who

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