Important Idioms and their Meanings for Competitive Exams - Set 4

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Dear friends, Here is the Fourth set of Important Idioms and their Meanings for Competitive Exams. You can read the Set 1 from here ,  Set 2 from here  and the Set 3 from here. Happy Reading :)

Idioms related to Go

• Go along! You are treading on my feet (move forward).
• treading meaning - to press something down with your foot
• He has never yet gone back on his word (failed to keep his promise)
• The days go by so quickly (pass)
• This train goes by electricity (functions by means of)
• That shop has gone down lately (deteriorated)
• deteriorated meaning -  to become worse
• The prices never seem to go down (fall)
• His speech went down very well (was received)
• He went for the doctor (went to fetch) 
• He went for the burglar with a stick (attacked)
• Shall we go for a walk, a drive, a run or a swim ? (go to have)
• They went into the whole mater of political secrecy (investigated)
• He is going in for medicine (making his career in)
• Another atom bomb went off yesterday (exploded)
• This meat has gone off (lost its freshness)
• The baby went off to sleep at once (fell asleep)
• Please go on with your work (continue)
• She goes on at him until he leaves the house (talks angrily to him)
• Put some coal on the fire or it will go out (die. Used for light and heat)
• The tide has gone out a long way (receded).
• He can be relied on to go through with the work (complete)
• He says he can't go without his tea (sacrifice, accept lack of)

Idioms related to Lay

• She has some money laid by in case of emergency (put away)
• Those soldiers laid down their arms (relinquished)
• arms meaning - weapons
• relinquished meaning - to give up something
• These soldiers laid down their lives for their country (sacrificed) 
• He keeps lying down the law to me about my wifely duties (formulating dogmatically)
• The house is ready: the water is already laid on (connected)
• We laid out a lot of money on the garden (spent)
• He was laid out by a blow on the head (knocked unconscious) 
• They laid up a large store of coal (amassed)
• amassed meaning - to get a large amount of something
• She was laid up for weeks with influenza (confined to bed - passive only)
• confined meaning - to limit / restricted to an area

Idioms related to Look

• He was looking at the beautiful view (regarding; observing) 
• Her grandmother will look after the children (take care of)
• They look down on us because we haven't got a car (despise)
• despise meaning - to feel a strong dislike for someone because you think that that person has no value
• I'm looking for a new house (seeking)
• She looked in just to see if we needed anything (visited in passing)
• Will you look into the matter of the lost books ? (examine)  
• He looks on my parties with disgust  (regards, views)
• Look out! The saucepan is burning ! (be careful)
• His work is looking up now (improving)
• They looked up to this great man (respected, admired)
• She looked round and saw someone following her (looked behind)

Shared by Bhargav Gupta Yechuri

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