Take note 28/11:

ĐỀ IDIOMS
- Run out of petrol
- Make reference to
- Fill in application form
- Be no mean feat = be a great achievement
- Grind poverty: cảnh nghèo àn
- Hardly need to tell= need hardly tell
- Đảo ngữ nơi chốn + động từ chính
- Lay- lied- lain: NẰM
- Lie- lied- lied: NÓI DỐI
- Lay – laid – laid : đặt bàn (laid a table)
- Headache => wear off
- Exercise your rights
- In the age + noun : ở thời đại
- Put down: loại bỏ
- Incomprehensible
- Be in league with = in agreement with
- Be for sth >< be against sth
- Hear sth through/On the grapevine that : đồn đại
- Independent of
- Mcuh less fuel ( không đếm được )
- Abandon hope of sth
- Have it made less wide
- Attain maturit y:
đạt tới
- Take the micky out of sb for sth: trêu chọc ai
 The other groups of boys is always take the mickey out of him
- Do sb good
- Hear the bell ring
 Hear sth verb: nghe từ đầu đến cuối ( ngắn nhanh )
 Hear sth ving: nghe giữa chừng chỉ một phần ngắn của một đoạn ngắn
dài
- Give sb up to sb = surrender
- Go through money: tiêu tiền
- Above the law
- Nowhere near as adj as
- Doubt sth ( doubt it )
- Pick up the flu
- Oil tankers => laid up : bảo trì
- Blocks => scattered: rải rác
- My word PROCESSOR – BREAK DOWN
- RISE => Nội động từ
- Raise => ngoại động từ (raise/put up/increase the price ><
cut/lower/reduce/slash)
- Go up => NỘI động từ
- PUT UP => NGOẠI động từ: lên giá
 Garages have put up the price of petrol
- Illegible: khó đọc
- Make endS meet
- BUSINESS FALL THROUGH: thất bại
- Come into a big fortune
- A sweet tooth
- Fall behind with sth ( work )
- ON fire
- IN LUCK
- Prim and propered: kĩ lưỡng quá mức có chút bảo thủ
- At the expense of sth: GÂY HỌA
- By happenstance
- On the house: không phải trả tiền
- By the skin of one’s teeth: sát sao
- Sow one’s wild oats: trải qua thời kì theo đuổi những thú vị bừa bãi
- (have a) Close shaves: thoát hiểm
- Have a bee in one’s bonnet
- Blow one’s trumpet: huênh hoang
- Fight tooth and nail
- A chip off the old block : người có tính cách giống bố/mẹ
- Have/Get sth on one’s mind: to be worry about sth
- Down- at- heel: wearing old clothes in a bad condition bc not having
much money
- (make money) hand over fist:
- Burn the candle at both ends
- Go to town on sth: do sth in an enthusiastic way
- Have sth on the tip of one’s tongue
- Put two and two together: suy luận ra
- Keep my fingers crossed for you
- By hair’s breath
- Have a narrow/hairbreadth escape: suýt nữa bị tóm
- Breadwinner
- Keep sb chin’s up: giữ vững can đảm
- Come out of sb shell: trở nên dạn dĩ cởi mở
- Catch sb on the hop: to do sth when sb is not ready for it and not able to
deal with it
- (like) a water off a duck’s back: criticms/warnings have no effect on a
person\
- Spitting image of sb: có mặt giống như đúc
- Money for old rope: easy to earn money
- Old wives’tale: chuyện mê tín
- Long shot: sth you try although it is unlikely to successful
- Fly in the ointment is the fact that: spolting happiness
- It’s the Crying shame that : sự xấu hổ
- Wet blanket: say sth
- Every nook and cranny: every part of a place
- General dogsbody: a person who have to do an unpleasant jobs or boring
that others don’t want to do
- Have a soft spot for sb: to feel that you like someone very much
 She’ve always had a soft spot for her husband
- A last/final fling: trò đùa ăn chơi cuối cùng\
- As strong as a horse/an ox
- As thin as a rake: gầy đét
- As tough as old boots: nhất là về thịt dai
- As white as a sheet: trắng bệch
- As deaf as a post: điếc đặc
- As difference as chalk and/from cheese: hoàn toàn khác nhau
- Fit as a fiddle: khỏe như vâm
- Like a lamp : hiền lành
- As good as gold : a child behave very well
- As light as air.a feather: rất nhẹ
- As old as the hillS
- As pleased as punch
- As keen as mustard : very eager and interested in everything
- As clear as a bell : easy to hear
- As clear as day >< as clear as mud
- As fresh as daisy
- As hard/tough as nail : cứng rắn tàn nhẫn
- As large as life: describing a person you see and are surprise to see
- As stubborn as a mule : ương bướng
- As sober as a judge: tỉnh táo không hề say rượu
- You can’t judge a book by its cover
- (as)steady as a rock: vững như bàn thạch
- As thick as thieves : rất ăn ý với nhau rất thân
- As red as a beetroot
- Hold on like grim death: hold on very tightly to something despite
difficulties
- Eat/work like a horse: ăn khỏe
- Smoke like a chimmey: hút thuốc lá cả ngày
- Fit like a glove: vừa khít
- Spread like wildlife ( news disease )
- Get on like a house on fire: they like each other and become friends very
quickly
- Like a house on fire: nhanh
- As peas in a pod: giống nhau như 2 giọt nước = like two peas in a pod
- Run/go Like a clockwork: happen exactly
ĐỀ ĐỘI TUYỂN
- Like clockwork
- a grain of truth
- incur the wrath/anger
- on the threshold of sth(new life)
- totter down: xiêu vẹo
- jump the sharl.
- count towards your final degree
- Chapter and verse.
- To the detriment of = harming
- livid with anger
- commission: tiền hoa hồng
- heave sth up : nhấc
- modify a behaviour
- clutter lộn xộn
- impassive
- get your wires crossed: have different understanding
- amble : đi thong thả
- a grand total
- lay(laid) into sb: to attack smb physically or to criticize them in an angry
way
- recede into the distance: move further away into the distance
- fall over yourself to do sth: very eagle to do sth
- count towards sth(their final degree): to be a part of what is needed to
complete or achieve sth
- technophile >< technophobe
- furious > infuriate
- diabetes > diabetics
- admit > inadmissible ( evidence)
- unity >(re)unification
- endure > durable
- maintain > low-maintenance
- eye > eyeopening experience
- bank > (river/road/railway) embankment : đường cao hơn
- hand > even-handed : treating everyone fairly and equallty
- centre > central
- found > founded
- govern > governing
- netherland > netherlands
- both generate => (which) generate
- their > its
- in > into
- comprise of > comprise ( SỬA LỖI SAI )
olympic 2012
- so-called “---“
- hold it against sb: like less sb bc …
- while away
- fell through : to fail to happen
- be taken for a ride = cheat = rip off
- suppose = what if
- be preoccupied with sth: to worry about sth
- diagnose  misdiagnosis
- live -> liven up a lecture
- guide -> guidelines
- exhaust -> inexhaustible
- breath -> breathlessly
- size -> downsize (company,…)
- lie -> belie (his reputation, an emotion,…)
- be in sb’s good/bad books
CHỮA ĐỀ TRẮC NGHIỆM ( 10 ĐỀ ĐẦU )
- take charge of
- back and forth
- say/breathe a word
- tie sb down: limit sb’s freedom
- enduring peace
- there is a list of repair as long as your arm
- see sb across
- push sb’s way through the crowd
- All that is needed is ,….
- Run into: tình cờ gặp
- Independent of
- The runner got a huge blister on his heel where his neww shoes rubbed
- Be swayed: bị dao động’
- Have time on your hands: have nothing to do
- Call upon: trân trọng mời ai phát biểu
- The true COME OUT
- I call for you at 6 o’ clock
- Many a NOUN ÍT + V ÍT
- Grievance: lời phàn nàn
- Hold up: đình trê
- Play down: làm nhẹ đi ( do modesty )
- Have some PEACE AND QUIET
- Drop in: ghé qua ( I will drop in to see Chris )
- Indication: dấu hiệu
- Giới từ đứng đầu câu => ĐẢO ĐỘNG TỪ
The instructor blew his whistle and OFF RAN THE RUNNERS
- Rebellions BREAK OUT : NỔ RA
- Environment-friendly = environmental-friendly
- Admission to
- In fear of sth
- ‘for the sake of = thinking about
- Person who is inexperienced => IS GREEN
- RECOGNIZE SB/STH >< REALIZE STH ( ĐIỀU GÌ )
- Drop out of the race: not do sth ………..
- A huge amound + N không đến được + V ÍT
- Receptive: dễ tiếp thu >< conservative
- Look up (for sb)(of sth: business, sb’s situation) => TO BECOME
BETTER
- Out of the world = terrific
- Snow under with = busy
- Skate on thin ice = take a risk
- Astonished -> astonishing
- Để ý ( their -> its ,…)
- Generous marker
- Have --- live => ever
- IN a panic
- -- to => need
- --- => used
- An empty street
- Get -- => involved in
- I’m so sorry, I didn’t realize it was so late
 Sorry, I don’t follow the track of time
- Get round to ving
- They got the wrong idea => they might have reach a wrong conclusion
- Be up to scratch = (don’t) come up to scratch: reaching an acceptable standard
- Foul : ăn gian
- Day in and out
- Make off: ăn cắp = rip sb off
- In time >< on time
- Bank on : expect sth or depend on sth happening
- Still waters run deep: chỉ 1ng nói ít hiểu nhiều
- Attach significance to ving : coi trọng việc gì
- Do/make a good/bad job of sth : to do sth well/badly
- VẾ TRƯỚC MANG Ý PHỦ ĐỊNH, NOR TĐT S V
- Presuppose: phỏng đoán
- Prolific (writer): viết nhiều, sản xuất nhiều
- CONTINUAL complaints
- Draught: cold air
- Breeze: a light and pleasant air
- Disregard of: ko quan tâm
- At the eleventh hour
- A big cheese: người có quyền lực lớn nhất
- Overlook one’s mistake: bỏ qua, tha thứ
- Be in the wrong: có tội
- Ample parking space
- Similar thought
- Set-to : cuộc đánh nhau
 ( several) set-tos : số nhiều
- Drive sb to the edge
- Để ý S V trong một câu
- Overdose: sử dụng quá liều
- Make up: giảng hòa
- Concregation: tụ họp
- Find sb adj
- Crude device/weapon/calculation
- It GAINS over 20 minutes a day ( đồng hồ )
- Culminate in sth: kết thúc bằng cgi
- The other: số lượng GIỚI HẠN LÀ 2
- The others: số lượng GIỚI HẠN LÀ TRÊN 2
- Others = other + N nhiều
- For all that : mặc dù vậy
- By the same token: cũng như vậy
- On the top of all that: không những thế
- Take it a miss: hiểu sai
- High and low = here and there
- Not bat an eye(lid)
- Lay -> laid -> laid : đẻ trứng
- Make a claim FOR
- Take sth with a pinch of SALT : to not completely believed something you ARE
TOLD, because you think it is unlikely to be true
- Wide-eyed amazement
- Wage/pay/income/price differential between
- Wide sth up (wound): to end an activity (meeting, affair: công việc)
- Distant/close relative
- Be On the tip of one’s tongue
- SLIP of the tongue : lỡ lời
- Unattended: không được giám sát
- Be considered adj
- Suit => clothes ( mọi phương diện )
- Fit => right size/shape
 This dress fits like a glove
- A large amount = LARGE AMOUNTS
- An amount of => N đếm được >< the number of
- Made up of = include
- The population will REACH ( KO phải bị động )
- It was SO SERIOUS an accident that everyone talk about it
 So serious was an accident that ---
 An accident was so serious that ---
- Blow one’s trumpet = show off
- Every now and then = from time to time
- Till the cows come home: for a long time
- Deficient in (vitamin) : thiếu hụtn
- Cock-and-bull ( story) : bịa đặt
- Stir up : CAUSE an unpleasant or problem begin to grow / substance to move and rise
up
- Take a rain check on sth : to tell someone that you can’t accept the invitation now, but
would like to do it on another time
- Tick smb off : spoken severely ( for doing sth )
- In the event of = in case of
- In place of = instead of
- Border on : gắn liền với
- Be at a loose end = have nothing to do
- Take up (as sth): đảm nhiệm ( MỘT phần công việc )
- Call off: hủy bỏ event
- Wear thin: if your patience wear thin, you become less and less patient
- By and large: when everything about the situation is considered together
- To a/some degree: partly
- (total/complete)Shambles : a state of confusion, bad organization or untidiness or sth
is in this state
  In a shambles
- A shred of hope/evidence
- TEAR/RIP sb/sth TO SHREDS: to strongly criticize a person or sth they do think,say
 The critics tore their performance to shreds
- Nghĩa khác: damage sth/sb badly
 The storm ripped our tent to shreds
- Streak : unpleasant characteristic that is different from others
 Like a streak of lightning / talk a blue streak
- GIVE/OFFER/PROVIDE (sb) clue
- Look for/search for CLUES
- Spell = a period of time for which an activity or condition last continously
 Cold spell: khoảng tgian lạnh ><
- Hasty in doing sth
- Tip off: warn sb secretly about sth will happen, so that they can take action or prevent
it from happening
- Mean VING : have a particular result
- Pick sb BRAINS
- Press sb to do sth =PERSUADE=TALK INTO = put the heat on sb = be/go on at sb to
\do sth/about = wrap sb round your little finger
- Fire STATION
In 1975, S had PII => Chuyển In => By ( tgian – thì )
- WORD FORM:
 OrganismS ( số nhiều )
 Đọc đề => Tìm ra UN
 Patch -> patchy
 Need => necessary
- Not to ----=> MENTION
- Budding(a): bắt đầu nảy nở (tài năng), begin to develop or show sign of future
success in a particular area
- Overwhelming sensation of living : very great, very large
- Flock to : move or come together in large numbers (people)
- Shared house
- Hall of residence: a college building where students live
- (a part time job should be easy to) COME ACROSS: find sth by chance
- Such noun as = such as noun
- People in the past never … of it => THOUGHT ( để ý tenses )
- First and foremost
- Depict ~ portray
- We expect everything to be all right at tomorrow’s conference
 Nothing is expected to go wrong at ----\
- Most of the problems arose because there was no leadership on the committee
 It was
- Im not certain, but there may be about twenty applications for the job
 At a guess, there are about ----
- Her aunt is extremely busy = Her aunt has her hands full
- The ship were hardly visible through the thick fog
 You could hardly make out(to see,hear or understand sth with difficulty) the ships
through the thick fog