These Idoms/Espression/Preposion Flashcards
ABP - Take risks
“I always like taking risks.”
“You can’t take risks with wild animals.”
ABP - Authority Figure
someone who is regarded as an authority
by someone else.
Similar words: authority, implied authority,
authorities, authoritative, authoritarian,
authoritatively, authoritarianism, authorise.
- Many prefer a familiar authority figure to a young upstart.*
- Disrespect the authority figure out there on the*
- field and then wonder why the kids do it in their classrooms.*
- It was their word against a powerful authority figure,*
- and they thought no one would believe them.*
- She never acted like an authority figure or pulled rank*
- on me.*
- You could find that a boss or authority figure constantly*
- nags that your work and efforts are not good enough.*

ABP- A Birth Certificate
an official document showing when and where you were born, and your parents’ names.
- He falsified his birth certificate to get a passport.*
- I don’t have my original birth certificate. Will you accept a copy?*
- You need a birth certificate, plus a photo I.D.*
- You have to get your birth certificate and whatever else is needed just as soon as, you can.*
- She falsified her birth certificate to get the job.*

ABP- A Stroke of Luck
ABP- Tossup, Fluke.
EXAM: Meeting you here was such a stroke of luck.
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- It was a stroke of luck that we found you.*
- In a stroke of luck, a suitable organ donor became available.*
- By a stroke of luck, someone else was walking along the path and heard my shouts for help.*
- By a stroke of luck I came across it in a local bookshop.*
- It was a stroke of luck that I found you here.*

ABP- An ID Card
an identity card:
- Discounts only on production of your student ID card.*
- Looking at the keys and an ID card named Paul Kinkaid, something seemed to hit him.*
- McCready handed over his ID card.*
- Whitlock used his personal ID card to activate the lift and tapped his foot apprehensively as he waited for it to arrive.*
- Leitzig fed his ID card into one of the steel doors.*

ABP- Application for a driver’s licence
The requiring procedures whenever you want to take a driver’s license.

ABP- Be innocent until proven guilty
Suçu ispatlanana dek masumm olmak.
- Under the present system, you’re innocent until proven guilty.*
- All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty and have the right to an attorney, and criminal procedure rights are extended to all persons without limitation.*
- A person accused of a crime is presumed innocent until proven guilty.*
- The American legal system says that you are innocent until proven guilty.*

ABP- Bear in Mind
ABP- Take into consideration, Consider.keep in mind.

EXAM: You should bear in mind that training will be very hard.
- 1 Bear in mind that petrol stations are scarce in the more remote areas.*
- 2 As generation gap exists, we must bear in mind that the younger people might not like that idea.*
- 3 Stay in the foyer if you wish, but bear in mind the performance begins in two minutes.*
- 4 There are three important points we must bear in mind.*
- 5 It is as well to bear in mind that laughter is a great releaser of tension.*
ABP- Brand Loyalty
ABP- Customer commitment to buying a particular brand of pruduct. the habit of always buying a product with the same name, made by the same company:
- (1) All manufacturers want to encourage brand loyalty to their own products.*
- (2) Mass advertising creates brand loyalty for a product.*
- (3) I think there is less brand loyalty in computers than there was a few years ago.*
- (4) The marketer will try to encourage brand loyalty as a means of rendering the purchase process more comfortable and more satisfying.*
- (5) Console users take gaming seriously, and their brand loyalty is frightening.*
- (6) But brand loyalty is harder to win in the information and entertainment businesses.*
- (7) To build brand loyalty employing below-the-line programmes.*

ABP- Break Down
if a car or machine breaks down, it stops working.
- Men are left idle when machines break down.*
- Many people were expecting the peace talks would break down.*
- It’s hard to break down old prejudices.*
- Claims that anti-cellulite creams can break down fat are controversial.*
- Police had to break down the door to get into the flat.*

ABP- Build up Muscle
I will build up my abs.
ABP- Capital Punishment
punishment which involves killing someone who has committed a crime: Death Penalty
ABP- Care about
“I don’t care about the risks”
ABP- Catch Sight of
ABP- Birden bire farketmek.
EXAM: Did you catch sight of that actor in the restaurant?
- 1, I didn’t so much as catch sight of him all day long.*
- 2, You can catch sight of yourself looking at other things than your own reflection, wearing unselfconscious expressions of interest and curiosity.*
- 3, All catch sight of each other and slam down lids.*
- 4, But only the lucky and the sharp-eyed will catch sight of a kangaroo.*
- 5, We catch sight of a small plane circling the mountain.*
ABP- Change your hairstyle/Tattoo
Changing part of your body.
ABP- Commercial Success
ABP- Something that sells a lot and makes a lot of money. The idom for success at the commercial area.
- Despite his great commercial success he still yearns for critical approval.*
- The book proved a major commercial success.*
- Whether the project will be a commercial success is still uncertain.*
- We hope it will be a commercial success.*
- The movie was not a commercial success .*
- The film was a huge commercial success.*
ABP- Community Service
work that is not paid that someone does to help other people, sometimes as punishment for a crime.

ABP- Corporal Punishment
punishment that involves hitting someone, especially in schools and prisons.

ABP- Drop Someone a line
ABP- to write a short letter or email to someone:
Drop me a line and let me know how you’re getting on.
ABP- Early Adopter
ABP- a person or organization that is among the first to buy and use a new product. People who buy/use new high-tech products when first appear on the market.

- New Zealand was an early adopter of a performance - based building code in 1992.*
- Perhaps passersby would mistake me for an early adopter.*
- Discovery Communications, whose “Deadliest Catch” television show follows those crab fishermen, has been a keen early adopter of high-definition television and 3-D.*
- For decades he read the New England Journal of Medicine, and—noting a weakness in his male ancestors—he was an early adopter of cholesterol-reducing statin pills, as well as skimmed milk.*
ABP- Enrollment Form
the form for requiring to join a school, university, course etc.
“We can use this form whenever I want to join any kind of school, course etc.”

ABP- Feel/Be ill/Well/Sick
- I left because I didn’t feel well.*
- I didn’t feel well on Friday night so I stopped in.*
- I don’t feel well.*
- I feel unwell/sick/terrible; I don’t feel well.*
- ‘It makes me feel, well, important.’–‘And so you are.’.*
- I didn’t feel well and wasn’t able to do justice to the meal she had cooked .*
- Do you feel well enough to sit up yet?*
- I still don’t feel well.*
- She didn’t feel well, and poked about the house.*
- Many teen-agers mistakenly assume that if they feel well, they can stop using these medicines.*
ABP- First Person
a computer or video game in which the person playing the game is the main character and has to shootthe other characters in the game:
ABP- Flash of Inspiration
ABP- A sudden very good idea. if someone has a flash of brilliance, anger etc, they suddenly have a clever idea or a particular feeling.

- The idea came to her in a flash of inspiration/genius.*
- The plan came in a flash of inspiration, fully formed.*
- It came to me in a flash of inspiration.*
- Suddenly I had a blinding flash of inspiration.*
- He had a sudden flash of inspiration .*














































