Hôm nay hãy cùng azVocab học 30 Idioms thú vị về chủ đề Education nha. Đây là những thành ngữ các bạn có thể dùng trong phần thi Speaking để bài nói của mình tự nhiên hơn. Hãy cùng theo dõi những Idioms dưới đây nào!
| IDIOMS | MEANING | EXAMPLE |
| Get the hang of something | to learn how to do something, esp. when it is not simple or obvious (học cách làm một điều gì đó đòi hỏi kỹ năng thông qua sự tập luyện) | After practicing this program a few times, I could get the hang of it. |
| Can’t make head nor tail of something | to not be able to understand something (không thể hiểu được một điều gì đó) | I can’t make head nor tail of what she just explained to me. |
| Do/try your (very) best | to make the greatest effort possible (cố gắng làm một việc gì đó hết sức có thể) | I will do my very best to pass this exam. |
| Do wonders for sth/sb | to cause improvements or have a very good effect (cải thiện, mang lại nhiều lợi ích cho một việc, một người nào đó) | Reading books will do wonders for me because it can help me widen my knowledge about the world. |
| Be quick on the uptake | if someone is quick on the uptake, they understand things easily (hiểu mọi thứ một cách nhanh chóng, dễ dàng; sáng dạ) | My sister is not an expert yet but she is quick on the uptake. |
| Someone’s Achilles’ heel | a small weakness in a person that can result in failure (điểm yếu của một người nào đó) | English used to be my Achilles’ heel but now, it became my strongest point. |
| With flying colors | if you do something such as pass an exam with flying colors, you do it very successfully (đặc biệt tốt hoặc rất thành công) | I studied very hard so I passed this exam with flying colors. |
| In/by leaps and bounds | if someone or something gets better by/in leaps and bounds, he, she, or it improves very quickly (nhanh chóng, thường dùng để miêu tả việc cải thiện một điều gì đó nhanh chóng) | My English skill has improved in leaps and bounds. |
| At someone’s own pace | if you do something at your own pace, you do it at a speed that is comfortable for you (làm việc tùy theo sức, tốc độ của mình) | He is walking too fast, so I decided to go at my own pace. |
| Draw a blank | to fail to get an answer (không nhận được câu trả lời) | I asked him about his plans for Christmas, but I just drew a blank. He didn’t seem to understand what I was asking him. |
| To be a copycat | to be someone who has few ideas of their own and does or says exactly the same as someone else (người sao chép ý tưởng người khác) | I don’t like talking to her about my homework because she’s such a copycat! I know she’ll steal my ideas and use them for her own essay. |
| Count noses | to count the number of people in a group to ensure that everyone is present (điểm danh) | All students, take your seats on the bus so that I can count noses before we leave the museum. |
| Drop out of school | to stop attending school (dừng việc học) | She dropped out of school at the age of 14 to help her sick grandmother at home, but now she runs her own successful nursing home for the elderly. |
| Show of hands | a vote in which people raise one of their hands to show that they support a suggestion (giơ tay biểu quyết) | With a show of hands, who would prefer to have longer working days but a shorter working week? |
| Learn something (off) by heart | learn all the words/things without any help (học thuộc lòng) | She learned all the compositions by Beethoven off by heart. |
| School of hard knocks | if you learn something in the school of hard knocks, you learn it as a result of difficult or unpleasant experiences (học từ thực tế cuộc sống) | I wasn’t able to go to college, but I learned a lot in the school of hard knocks, it taught me a lot about life. |
| An A for effort | acknowledgment for having tried to do something, even if it was not successful (điểm 10 cho sự nỗ lực, dù có thể không thành công) | Jenny definitely deserves an A for effort, she put so much work into her entry for the competition. |
| School sb (in sth) | to tutor, train, or mentor one (in some skill, discipline, field, etc.) (đào tạo làm gì đó) | I was schooled by a famous painter when I was studying impressionism. |
| Cut class/ play hooky/ skip class | to skip a school class or a day of school without an excuse (trốn học) | David has been cutting class again; I haven’t seen him in any of our French lessons for the past week. |
| You can’t teach an old dog new tricks | said to mean that it is very difficult to teach someone new skills or to change someone’s habits or character (bạn không thể thay đổi cách họ làm một việc gì đó) | Jeremy tries so hard to show me how the computer works, but he doesn’t understand that you can’t teach an old dog new tricks. |
| Get off to a good start with sth | to begin an activity successfully (có khởi đầu tốt với cái gì) | Thanks to my chemistry lessons, I got off to a good start with science. |
| Have a good command of sth | to be knowledgeable about or skilled in a particular area or thing (am hiểu về điều gì) | Nam has a remarkably good command of English. |
| Make oneself understood | to communicate effectively (khiến người khác hiểu được cái mà mình muốn truyền đạt) | I had a Chinese speaking test, but my Chinese is so limited that I couldn’t make myself understood. |
| Play truant | to be regularly absent from school without permission (thường xuyên trốn học) | Most parents are horrified when they discover their children have been playing truant from school. |
| Teacher’s pet | the teacher’s favourite student (học trò cưng) | I have to admit I definitely was the teacher’s pet at school! |
| Hit the books | to study (học tập) | I can’t party with my friends much because I need to hit the books. |
| To be a bookworm | someone who reads a lot (mọt sách, người đọc nhiều) | My brother reads 5 hours a day. He is such a bookworm! |
| Burn the midnight oil | to study/work late into the night (thức khuya làm việc, học tập, nghiên cứu) | I’ll need to burn the midnight oil to have any chance of finishing this paper before class tomorrow morning. |
| Sit an exam | to take an exam (làm bài kiểm tra/bài thi) | The time when I have to sit an exam is really stressful because I need to stay up all night and have less time to relax. |
| The three Rs | used to refer to the basic areas of education: reading, writing, and mathematics (3 điều cơ bản của giáo dục: đọc, viết và toán học) | Some children are leaving school without even the basic three Rs. |
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