Sử dụng idioms trong bài thi IELTS speaking có thể giúp bài nói của thí sinh tự nhiên và thường nếu thí sinh muốn đạt band 7.0+ thì cần phải sử dụng idioms khi trả lời câu hỏi của giám khảo.

1. Forty Winks: A nap, short sleep

Example:

• I need forty winks before I start to study for the IELTS test again.
  
• She just had time to put her feet up and catch forty winks before dinner

2. Cut From the Same Cloth: To be very similar

Example:

• My sister and I are cut from the same cloth and even sound alike on the telephone.
  
• There are thousands of men out there in my country with the same thoughts that all women are cut from the same cloth. How ridiculous they are!

3. Pie in the Sky: An idea or plan that is unlikely to happen

Example:

• My dreams of becoming an English teacher are just a pie in the sky
• My plans to set up my own business are just pie in the sky.

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4. Until the cows come home: for a very long time

Example:

• We could talk about this problem until the cows come home, but it wouldn’t solve anything.
• We can learn IELTS until the cows come home this week to get a high score in IELTS

5. Balancing Act: A situation in which one must accomplish a number of tasks at the same time.

Example:

Many people, especially women, have to perform a balancing act between work and family

6. Spoon-feed someone: To do so much for someone that they do not need to make any effort of their own

Example:

• Some IELTS teachers spoon-feed the students by dictating notes on the books instead of getting their students to read the books.
• It is highly debatable whether newspaper should spoon-feed the readers with the content on the front pages.

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7. Accidentally on Purpose: If you do something accidentally on purpose, you intend to do it but you pretend that it was an accident

Example:

• I accidentally on purpose erased my teacher’s email address, so I couldn’t contact her again.
• If I, accidentally on purpose, forget to bring her address with us, we won’t be able to visit her after all.

8. Play To The Gallery: to perform in a manner that will make people admire or support you.

Example:

• “Selena Gomez is a world famous singer, so it is understandable that she tries to play to the gallery when she attends a fan meeting.”
• “Donal Trump attempts to play to the gallery so that he can get more votes from people.”
• “The CEO is a warm-hearted person, he always plays to the gallery when he talks with employees.”

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9. Bone Of Contention: The main point of an argument.

Example:

• ” Nowadays, the increase in white-collar crime has become a bone of contention between politicians.”
• ” This kind of music is always a bone of contention between Jone and his son.”
• ” The way of reducing heavy traffic congestion is still a bone of contention.”

10. Eat The Humble Pie: To accept you were wrong in humiliating circumstances.

Example:

•  “The producers of the advert had to eat humble pie and apologise for misrepresenting the facts.”
• “The football team have to eat humble pie after losing the match with a terrible score.”
• “Don’t be arrogant. I hope you would eat humble pie after you realise you were wrong.”

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