10 Idioms in different situations

Question 1

“take the bulls by the horns”
* Use in a situation that needs to change, person has to take control
* Change the situation in a good way

بدون ترس با سختی ها روبرو شدن،
با مشکل شاخ به شاخ شدن، دست به کار شدن،

Answer 1

Take control of a difficult situation
“I need to take the bull by the horns”

Ex:
When I reached the final year of university, I realized that I needed to find an internship, so I took the bull by the horn and contacted dozens of companies.

Question 2

Tell me about a time in your life when you faced a difficult situation and you took action to improve that situation

Question 3

Go the extra mile

Do more work than expected or required
“Go” will change depending on person and tense

Answer 3

Ex:
* He got the promotiom because he went the extra mile.
* My friend is very hardworking, he always goes the extra mile.
* I thought I can impress my boss by going the extra mile, but I was wrong.
Practice: Tell a story about a time you either went the extra mile or regretted not doing the extra mile.

Question 4

Once in a blue moon

Omething that happens very rarely, almost never happens
sometimes we regret that it happens rarely
Adverb of frequency (like Rarely, often) but at end of sentence
Present tende

تقریبا هرگز، بندرت، گاه گاهی

Answer 4

• he helps his wife clean the house once in a blue moon
• I get up late once in a blue moon

Question 5

Easier said than done

Answer 5

Easy to say, but hard to do. Not practical in reality.
That’s easier said than done.
It’s easier said than done.

I should get up and do yoga at 5 am every morning before going to work, but that’s easier said that done!

Apple shoud create an exciting and revolutionary new product like the iPhone “Easier said than done”

(آنچه که) گفتنش آسان و انجامش دشوار است

Question 6

A fish out of water

Answer 6

In an uncocomfortable situation, feel different to the people around you
Part of a grammatical phrase:
* I was like a fish out of watrer.
* I feel like a fish out of water.

“One of my friends doesn’t know anything about technology. He feels like a fish out water at the technology conference”

“I don’t like basketball, so I was like a fish out of water at the LA Lakers game.”

Challenge:
Talk about a time when you felt like a fish out of water (in an unfamiliar or uncomfortable situation)

وصله ناجور

Question 7

Pull yourself together

when you try to get control of yourself or your emotions usually it’s after something bad happens. But you keep going

Answer 7

Get control of your emotions, often after bad news

He pulled himself together after hearing that bad news.

Beauty & beast movie:
The strong, handsome but arrogant guy, gets turned down by Belle. He asks Belle to marry him but she says no, feeled so embarrasses. I said him “You’ve got to pull yourself together”

?? Tell me about a time when you were upset? What did you do to recover?

یه سر و سامانی به خودت بده، خودت رو جمع و جور کن، به خودت بیا

Question 8

The tip of the ice berg

Iceberg: a big ice mountain that floats around in the sea
Reason that Titanic Sank

Answer 8

• We can see one problem, but there are other hidden problems
• Visible part of a bigger problem
  That’s just the tip of the iceberg.

She didn’t come to my party, but that’s just the tip of the iceberg! She has been avoiding me for weeks.

I you come back from seeing the doctor:
The doctor told me that I have to lose weight, but that’s just the tip of the iceberg. (I also have lots of other health problems, losing weight is one of them)

Exercise:
Tell me about atime when you faces a number of related problems, and what you did to solve those problems?

Question 9

See eye to eye

Answer 9

Agree with someone
usually used in negative
“We don’t see eye to eye”
“I don’t see eye to eye with sb”

“My classmate and I didn’t see eye to eye on our end of semester project”

“It’s hard to talk to my parents because we don’t see eye to eye on a lot of things.”

Tell me about a time you had a disagreement with somebody!

Question 10

To cut a long story short

Answer 10

Instead the telling of the whole story just give the most important story

Summarize the main pooints of the story

Use at the start of sentence

“Well, to cut a long story short, we managed to complete the project just n time.”
“To cut a long stroy short , I have to go back to university to do a masters degree”

Use anytime you want to shorten/sumarize the story
ex:
Choose story, give a short background and then use idiom in middle if the answer/
**
Tell me about a time you faced a difficult decision in your life, and what you decided to do.**

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