TOEFL LISTENING COMPREHENSION SECTION

Recurrent TOEFL Phrasal Verbs and Idioms

Phrasal Verbs
Verb Meaning ‫الترجمة‬
1- Call on visit ‫يزور‬
2- Turn into Become ‫ يتحول‬- ‫يصبح‬
3- Get over Feel better; overcome ‫يتحسن‬
4- Give up Stop doing something ‫يقلع عن‬
5- Turn down Refuse; reject ‫يرفض‬
6- Get along with Befriend; make friendship with ‫يصبح صديقا ل‬
7- Lay off Release )‫يسرح (عماله‬
8- Try out for Want to succeed ‫يرغب في النجاح‬
9- put up with Stand = Tolerate = bear ‫ يطيق‬- ‫يتحمل‬
10- Call off Cancel ‫يلغي‬
11- Put off Postpone = delay ‫يؤجل‬
12- Cut down on Decrease ‫يقلل من‬

Idiom
1- As easy as a pie; a
piece of cake
2- We are in the same
boat.
3- Swim up stream
4- Two heads are
better than one.
5- Dot all the i's and
cross all the t's.
6- Hit the nail on the
head.
7- It's all in the day's
work.
8- The action will be
done immediately.
9- Just my luck.
Idioms
Meaning ‫الترجمة‬
Very simple ‫سهل جدا‬
In the same situation ‫نحن في نفس الموقف‬
Face challenges and difficulties ‫يتحدى الصعوبات‬
‫والعقبات‬
It is better to work together ‫في اإلتحاد قوة‬
To be more specific. ‫نضع النقاط فوق‬
‫الحروف‬
To be right and exact ‫يصيب كبد الحقيقة‬
It is part of my job ‫هذا من صميم عملي‬
It is better to come late than ‫أن تأتي متأخرا خير من‬
not. ‫أال تأتي‬
I am not lucky. ‫يالسوء حظي‬
10-No sooner said than The action will be done ‫علم وينفذ‬
done. immediately.
11-Two heads are To be excellent ‫أن يصبح متفوقا‬
better than one.
12-To each his own. Everybody has their taste ‫لوال إختالف األذواق‬
‫لبارت السلع‬
13-Go around the bush. To be indirect. ‫يلف ويدور‬
)‫(غيرصريح‬
14-Follow directions to Follow instructions exactly. ‫يتبع التعليمات بالحرف‬
the letter.
15-Brush up on Revise or review information ‫يراجع المعلومات‬
‫والبيانات‬