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 .*
ABP- Formal Complaint Form
If you experienced any kind of bad thing about formal issues, you have rights which involves all manner complaints. All you need is the requirement you know it which will be used form.
ABP- Get into Debt
ABP- Borca girmek,
EXAM: We got into debt and had to sell out house.
- She cited three reasons why people get into debt.*
- It’s easier to get into debt than to get out of it again!*
- I did get into debt at one stage, but with actually working you can get your hands on anything really.*
- Never get into debt if you can avoid it.*
- It was unwise of you to get into debt.*
ABP- Get Rid Of
to remove something that you do not want any longer:
EXAM: She got rid of the car she hated and got another one.
ABP- Get/Have a Haircut/Tan/Piercing/your look
“You can get a tan with in the sun.”
ABP- Give evidence
ABP- Testify, Witness, Tanıklık etmek.
- They were called to give evidence at the trial.*
- I was asked to give evidence at the trial.*
- It is required that I give evidence.*
- The woman went to court to give evidence against her attacker.*
- She had to appear in court to give evidence.*
ABP- Go Up a Level
ABP- Go Wrong
“Lots of things could go wrong.”
ABP- Grow your Hair/Beard/Mustache
I want to grow my mustache.
ABP- Have an accident
- Be careful if you have an accident I’ll be liable.*
- Even a six-year-old can have an accident at night sometimes.*
- It’s easy to have an accident just crossing the road.*
- She’ll have an accident one day.*
- You’ll have an accident if you carry on driving like that.*
ABP- Have side effects
- Metaphors have side effects, although sometimes it is difficult to detect them until they have had a considerable influence upon us.
- According to an article in The Economist the drug could have side effects.
- Effective treatments for PDN are available, but many have side effects that limit their usefulness, and few studies have sufficient information on treatment effects on function and QOL.
- These meds induce sleep and may help a person get seven to eight hours of shut-eye, but generally should not be taken longer than seven to 10 days and may have side effects.*
- Metaphors have side effects, although sometimes it is difficult to detect them until they have had a considerable influence upon us.
ABP- Illegal File Sharing
Illegal file sharing is the process of sharing and distributing files illegally over a network or Internet. This includes the practice of distributing, selling or publishing copyrighted and protected content to the general public, usually over the Internet, or with a compact disk or external storage device.
ABP- in danger
“I don’t allow any kind of in danger.”
“I don’t want to put my life in danger.”
ABP- in safety
“In the dive cage you can watch them in safety.”
“If you can take all off neccessary precautions, you can sail with this boat in safety even if you are caught in a sudden storm. “
ABP- Get into trouble
” We got into trouble at one point.”
ABP- Invest In
ABP- Bir işe yatırım yapmak.
EXAM: They won’t invest in out business.
- 1 He doesn’t invest in the arms industry on principle.*
- 2 Now is a good time to invest in the property market.*
- 3 I have decided to invest in a new car.*
- 4 It’s very short-sighted of the government not to invest intechnological research.*
- 5 We’ve decided it’s time to invest in a new computer.*
ABP- Job Application
a formal request to be considered for a job.
- I am writing in connection with your recent job application.*
- Send a full CV with your job application.*
- If that job application doesn’t work out I’ve got a couple more irons in the fire.*
- I am writing with reference to your job application.*
- Did you have any luck with the job application?*
ABP- Law-Abiding
respectful of the law and obeying it:
Similar words: abiding, libidinous, forbidding, riding, hiding, gliding, in hiding, presiding. Meaning: adj. 1. (of groups) not violent or disorderly 2. (of individuals) adhering strictly to laws and rules and customs.
- This terrible crime has shocked all law-abiding citizens.*
- By and large, these people are peace-loving, law-abidingcitizens.*
- Such actions against law-abiding citizens will not be tolerated.*
- Sentencedict.com is a sentence dictionary, on which you can find good sentences for a large number of words.*
- Male speaker A lot of law-abiding youngsters may feel the way to get a holiday is to commit a crime.*
ABP- Lose Touch With
a) if two people lose touch, they gradually stop communicating, for example by no longer phoning or writing to each other:
EXAM: Have you ever lost touch with an old friend?
- “I’ve lost touch with all my old school friends.”*
- “They lost touch when Di got married and moved away.”*
b) if you lose touch with a situation or group, you are then no longer involved in it and so do not know about it or understand it:
- “They claim the prime minister has lost touch with the party.”*
- “It sometimes appears that the planners have lost touch with reality.”*
ABP- Make an appointment
- I’d like to make an appointment with Doctor Evans, please.*
- He would make an appointment with him to straighten out a couple of things.*
- I’d like to make an appointment to see the doctor, please.*
- Please contact my secretary to make an appointment.*
- I’d like to make an appointment with Miss Taylor.*
- I want to make an appointment for a cut and blow-dry.*
- I’d like to make an appointment to see Dr Pugh.*
- Call Mrs. Reynolds’ secretary and make an appointment.*
- Did you make an appointment to see the doctor?*
- So, make an appointment at your family planning clinic or go and talk to your college doctor.*
ABP- Make the most of Sth
to use or enjoy something as much as possible:
- She doesn’t know how to make the most of herself .*
- It’s a lovely day - we must make the most of it.*
- Make the most of this feeling while it lasts.*
- Hap-piness is the ability to make the most of what you have.*
- Charming and friendly, she will help you make the most ofyour visit.*
ABP- Medical Certificate
an official piece of paper signed by a doctor saying that you are too ill to work or that you are completely healthy:
- Pilots over age 40 must renew the medical certificate required as a condition of licensing every two years.*
- She even had a medical certificate to prove she was clean.*
- Professor Zhu put the medical certificate into the medical record.*
- Where the witness is ill it is advisable to send a medical certificate with the notice itself.*
- Remember, if you are sick for a second week, we shall require a medical certificate.*
- If you’re sick you have to get a medical certificate.*
ABP- Multinational Companies
A large company that operates in many different countries. A list (incomplete) of multinational corporations, also known as multinational companies and worldwide or global enterprises. These are corporate organizations that own or control production of goods or services in 2 or more countries other than their home countries.
- The industry is dominated by five multinational companies.*
- Many multinational companies have substantial operations in this area.*
- Dutra, ideologically hostile to multinational companies for health and environmental reasons, wants farmers to go organic.*
- Multinational companies have often been accused of employing cheap labour in developing countries.*
- A handful of multinational companies dominate the economy.*
- The government therefore turned to multinational companies as potential suitors for Rover.*
- Multinational companies create, in effect, a global economy.*
ABP- Park Illegally
You have to park your car in the legal park. Otherwise, you have to pay a parking fine.
- Park illegally, and you’re likely to be ticketed.*
- I couldn’t find a parking meter, so I decided to park illegally and risk a tow-away.*
- Councils will get sweeping powers to impose fines on drivers who park illegally.*
- A word of warning: be careful not to park illegally as your vehicle is liable to be towed away.*
ABP- Pass Sentence
ABP- Convict, Adjuged.
- The judge will pass sentence tomorrow after looking at all the reports.*
- The judge will pass sentence on the accused this afternoon.*
- The court is expected to pass sentence later today.*
- Judge Evans will pass sentence on the three men tomorrow.*
- The judge had 30 days to pass sentence.*
ABP- Pay a Parking Fine
an official notice fixed to a vehicle, saying that you have to pay money because you have parked your car in the wrong place or for too long: SYN: Pay a parking ticket
You have to park your car in the legal park. Otherwise, you have to pay a parking fine.
ABP- Pleads Guilty
ABP- Admit Guilty. Suçu kabül etmek
- He was encouraged to plead guilty to the lesser offence.*
- Prisoner at the bar, do you plead guilty or not guilty?*
- He plead guilty and was fined $ 240.*
- He had decided, as advised, to plead guilty and proceedings had moved with dizzying speed.*
- Fisher has agreed to plead guilty to the charges and faces a year in prison.*
ABP- Proof of Adress
The Public Bureaus sometimes want you a proof of address. Because they want to proved your address. On that times, you must fill this kind of form.
ABP- Provide Service
ABP- Hizmet sunmak.
EXAM: The bank provides excellent service for all its customers.
- The venture aims to provide service for applications resulting from the merging of telecommunications and computing technologies, such as ISDN and viewdata.
- E-learning operators provide service by way of adding fictitiously in the entity, they use to increase the value of the goods and service, and transmit the service or the products to others .
- We provide service as property management, investment and hotel management consultant, etc.
- Industry content models provide service definitions, proven data models and common services based on industry standards and best practices.
ABP- Push your Luck
ABP- Try too hard to get something and risk losing what you’ve achieved.
EXAM: Hey, don’t push your luck.
Şansı zorlamak
- but don’t push your luck!*
- Just make sure that you don’t push your luck too far.*
- But do not push your luck too far.*
- You lived to tell the tale this time but who knows how far you can push your luck.*
- You didn’t get caught last time, but don’t push your luck!*
ABP- Put on Makeup/Weight
Your objective must be to put on weight.
ABP- Repay a Loan
ABP- Krediyi geri ödemek. Repay a dept.
EXAM: We repaid the loan from the bank sooner than expected.
You should have been told that an endowment policy is not guaranteed to repay a loan.
ABP- Resident’s Certificate
ABP- Run a Business
ABP- Bir işi yönetmek.
- I ran a business for 20 successful years.*
- I think you can run a business to the highest moral standards.*
- Please teach me how to run a business.*
- He has no idea how to run a business.*
- They don’t know how to run a business .*
- It will continue to run a business travel operation.*
ABP- Run Out of Luck
ABP- Have no more luck.
EXAM: She believed that she’d run out of luck.
Şansın tükenmesi
Once I get on to a good thing I keep it going until I run out of luck.
ABP- Take the time to
to spend enough time to do something well or carefully:
- She didn’t even take the time to wish me good morning.*
- Take the time to find the right spot to pitch your tent.*
- I don’t think they take the time to sit down and think about all aspects of being a creative person.*
- Every move required the mover to take the time to register to vote, if so inclined.*
- Take the time to sit back and listen and establish a routine for yourself.*
- There was no need to take the time to beat up on the new pioneers.*
ABP- Target Market
ABP- The group of customers a company wants to sell a product to: the type of people that The companies aim to sell their products or services to:
- We must decide on our target market, then zero in on it.*
- The prime target market, then, is seen to be pre-retirement.*
- You are not a target market.*
- Unfortunately, the target market also want to smoke at every available opportunity.*
- We need to identify the target market.*
- Our target market is young consumers who like trendy clothing.*
ABP- Tax Evasion
the crime of paying too little tax:
- These two shopkeepers are in prison for tax evasion.*
- The Government should act to curb tax evasion.*
- He is in prison for tax evasion .*
- He’s been accused of tax evasion.*
- Watson was jailed for tax evasion.*
ABP- Tax Return
the form on which you have to give information so that your tax can be calculated.
- . You have to fill in your tax return by tomorrow.*
- He filed a tax return but failed to remit what he owed.*
- Under the Forbes plan, filing a tax return might require only two calculations.*
- Inside was a spoof tax return with the usual warnings about false statements.*
- Even the math behind a simple tax return carries assumptions that are open to challenge.*
- I completed a tax return but heard nothing more.*
ABP- Visa or Passport Application
You can use all of this procedures when you want to take Visa or Passport Application.
ABP- Wish me Luck
ABP- Say that you hope things go well.
EXAM: I’m so nervous. Please wish me luck.
- Well, here goes wish me luck!*
- Well, this is it! Wish me luck.*
- Wish me luck! - What for?*
- Agnes: Well, so long , copper . Wish me luck. I a raw deal.*
ABP- With any Luck
ABP- If things go well. Hopefully.
EXAM: with any luck, the weather will be good.
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- With any luck,they might make on the deal.*
- With any luck we should reach the coast before it gets dark.*
- With any luck, people searching for the real site may come across yours first.*
- With any luck the calendar finds a place on the kitchen wall and serves as a useful reference throughout the year.*
- Then, with any luck, the boss will start aligning himself with you.*
ABPC- Be back in business
to be working or operating normally again:
Didn’t you wonder whether she was back in business.
- The band are back in business after a long break.
- Nice to see Dave Hill’s barber is back in business.
- Stop Press: Liverpool is back in business.
- Last week, Peron was back in business, with a few cosmetic changes.
- The company was back in business.
The weekly market is back in business after its winter break.
ABPC- Be on the rise
Becoming greater or more numerous; increasing.
According to most of Turkish people, the expenses of the exportation will be on the rise next year.
- Xenophobic nationalism is on the rise in some West European countries.
- Police say that youth crime is on the rise again.
- The numbers also demonstrate that intermarriage is on the rise.
ABPC- Decline Sharply
To decline suddenly and by a large amount;
According to our graphical reports, your company ratio of profit will decline sharply 3 months later.
Prices are expected to increase/decline sharply.
Indeed, the Soviet Union continues to decline sharply in importance.
ABPC- Get down to business
to start talking about the subject to be discussed: (Asıl konuya gelmek/dönmek, Ana iş konusunu konuşmaya başlamak)
If the introductions are over I’d like to get down to business.
ABPC- Make/Stage a comeback
if a person, activity, style etc makes a comeback, they become popular again after being unpopular for a long time.
“It’s a stubborn fact that Ankaragücü made a comeback from howling wilderness places which is the deep of second league.”
“If we had made a comeback, we would not have relegated last season.”
- She’s trying to make a comeback with her first album for twenty years.*
- Ripley looks certain to make a comeback and the Boro boss is ready to make one or two other changes as well.*
- But did he ever make a comeback.*
- The band’s trying to make/stage a comeback.*
- Rab tried to stage a comeback.*
- an ageing pop star trying to stage a comeback.*
- They didn’t admit they were defeated; they began to recruit and attempted to stage a comeback.*
ABPC- Make Sb’s Hair Stand on end
to make someone very frightened: (Dehsete dusurmek, tuylerini diken diken etmek)
- His kamikaze driving made my hair stand on end.*
- The voice made Ah Duo’s hair stand on end.*
- I told the boy a story that made his hair stand on end.*
- This was the kind of smile that made your hair stand on end.*
- The sight of the dead man made his hair stand on end.*
ABPC- Make Sb’s Skin Crawl
make someone feel very uncomfortable or slightly afraid:(Tuyleri diken diken etmek, korkmak)
- Just thinking about spiders makes my skin crawl.*
- Just the sight of him makes my skin crawl.*
- Her singing makes my skin crawl.*
- The ghost story made my skin crawl.*
- It made her skin crawl, the deference.*
ABPC- Mean Business
Informal:
to be serious about doing something even if it involves harming someone.
(1) This decision shows the public that we mean business.
(2) I mean business, so you must be careful.
(3) The border is guarded by troops who mean business.
(4) And to prove we mean business, our members will stage a one-day strike next week.
(5) They are shortly to realise that we mean business.
(6) Don’t think I am joking; I mean business.
(7) Whichever it is, we mean business, I warn you.
The border is guarded by troops who mean business.
ABPC- Mind your own business
- to not ask questions about a situation that does not involve you. To tell people in a rude way that you don’t want them to ask about something private.
- Why don’t you just mind your own business and leave me in peace?*
- I wish he’d mind his own business.*
- Sb was (Just) minding their own buswiness: Used to say that somebody was not doing anything unusual or wrong at the time when something unfair or bad happened to them.
I was driving along, minding my own business, when the police stopped my car.
Mainly humorously:
Where have you been there?
mind your own business!.
ABPC- None of your business
If something is not your business or none of your business, you should not be involved in or ask about in.:
It was her business, she decided, to ask where the money came from. But this question was distracting for him. He said that It had been none of your business how she earned it. You should mind your own business.
ABPC- Shiver(up and) down your spine
a frightened or excited feeling:(içi ürpermek)
- At its most terrifying, his writing sends shivers up and down my spine.*
- Whenever I hear that music, I feel a shiver down my spine.*
ABPC- Sink without Trace
if something sinks without trace, it fails quickly or no one pays attention to it:
Let’s approve that Gaziantepspor declined sharply and sunk without a trace.
He made a few records, which all sank without trace.
ABPC- Stick your nose into something
poke/put your nose into something
- to try to discover things which do not involve you:
- to become involved in something that does not concern you, in a way that annoys people.
- You’re always sticking your nose into my business.*
- Why did you have to stick your nose in?*
- I envy your time management skill. I could never find the time to stick my nose into other people’s business like you do. (Zaman yönetimi yeteneğini kıskanıyorum. Burnumu senin gibi başkalarının işine sokmak için asla zaman bulamadım.)*
ABPC- Lose Favor & Fall out of Favor
investments, products, or services that are out of favor are no longer popular with investors.
to become unpopular : to lose support:
Even if Mehmet Yiğiner said that he had resigned from the president of Ankaragücü, actually, he was ridiculing with supporters of Ankaragücü as usual. All of this mock games caused that fans of Yiğiner was losed favor.
- Your stock could lose favor with WalJ Street and take a big slide.*
- When Charles I came to the throne, Calvert resigned, but he did not lose favor.*
Bend someone’s Ear
to talk to someone for a long time, especially about a problem, or to ask for something.
You can always bend my ear , right?
ABPC- Corporate Sponsorship
Sirket Sponsorlugu-MARKETING the fact of a company supporting a person or an organization, especially by giving them money:
corporate sponsorship of the Olympic Games
He was disappointed when his bosses declined to provide him with corporatesponsorship for running the marathon.
an article on how small charities can obtain corporate sponsorships
ABPC- Product Endorsement
Approval of product. To use any famous person at the advertisement of the product.
