Topic Health and Fitness sẽ là một trong những chủ đề thú vị tiếp theo trong chuỗi những bài tổng hợp Idiom IELTS Speaking mà azVocab sẽ cung cấp cho các bạn. Hãy cùng tìm hiểu qua một vài Idioms và ví dụ mà bọn mình cung cấp dưới đây nhé!
Để có thể trả lời các câu hỏi IELTS Speaking chủ đề Health and Fitness một cách ấn tượng và trơn tru, azVocab đã tổng hợp lại một số các Idioms khả năng xuất hiện trong 3 phần của đề thi (kèm ví dụ) để các bạn tham khảo.
| IDIOMS | MEANING | EXAMPLE |
| A frog in one’s throat | difficulty speaking because your throat feels dry (khô cổ, khó nói) | I had a frog in my throat, and I had to clear my throat several times before I could answer. |
| (As) fit as fiddle | to be very healthy and strong (rất khỏe mạnh, đầy năng lượng) | Because of eating fish nearly every day, Japanese people are as fit as a fiddle even the elderly. |
| (As) right as rain | to feel healthy or well again (khỏe mạnh trở lại) | You just need a good night’s sleep, and then you’ll be right as rain again. |
| (Back) on one’s feet | healthy again (trở lại như trước, bình phục trở lại) | The doctor said he’d be back on his feet again soon. |
| Green around the gills | to look ill and pale (trông xanh xao gầy yếu) | Mai, who stuck to a starvation diet, looks kind of green around the gills. |
| Clean bill of health | a decision by a doctor that someone is healthy (chứng nhận rất khỏe mạnh) | He’s been given a clean bill of health by the doctor. |
| Feel/look like death warmed up/over | to look or feel very sick (trông như bị ốm, cảm thấy không khỏe) | He shouldn’t be working when he’s so sick – he looks like death warmed over! |
| Full of beans | to have a lot of energy and enthusiasm (rất khỏe mạnh, tràn đầy năng lượng) | I’ve never known anyone be so full of beans before breakfast. |
| Go downhill | to gradually become worse (sức khỏe lao dốc) | After the death of her mother, Anna’s health went downhill. |
| Kick the habit | to give up something harmful that you have done for a long time (từ bỏ thói quen xấu) | She used to be a heavy smoker but she kicked the habit last year. |
| On the mend | becoming healthy after an illness (bình phục, khỏe mạnh trở lại sau chấn thương hoặc cơn bệnh) | She’s still in the hospital, but she’s definitely on the mend. |
| Take a turn for the better | to become better (trở nên tốt hơn) | His stomach could take turn for the better without having any operation. |
| Take a turn for the worse | to become worse (trở nên tệ) | Despite undergoing major operation, his health takes turn for the worse. |
| Get into the pink of health | To become healthy or in excellent condition (trở nên khỏe mạnh hoặc trong trạng thái tuyệt vời) | It took a few weeks of bed rest to get into the pink of health again. |
| Bag of bones | someone who is extremely thin (rất gầy) | The child was just a bag of bones when we found her. |
| Cast-iron stomach | describe someone who can eat all kinds of things without ever feeling sick (có thể ăn mọi thứ mà không thấy vấn đề gì) | It’s too spicy for me, but John will love it. He has a cast iron stomach! |
| In bad shape | lacking physical fitness (tình trạng thể chất kém.) | Tom needs exercise. He’s in bad shape. |
| Sick as a dog | vomiting a lot (nôn rất nhiều) | I was sick as a dog after last night’s meal. |
| Have one foot in the grave | to be very old and near death (cận kề cái chết) | Jane looks as though she has one foot in the grave. |
| Run in the family | if a quality, ability, disease, etc. runs in the family, many members of the family have it (di truyền) | After studying his family’s health history, the doctor said that it was a disease that ran in the family. |
| At death’s door | to be very sick (ốm nặng) | He has won five golf competitions in three months, a year after being at death’s door. |
| Drop like flies | if people are dropping like flies, they are dying or falling down in large numbers (chết như ngả rạ) | The heat was overwhelming and people were dropping like flies. |
| Knock someone sideways/for six | to make someone very ill (làm ai ốm nặng) | That flu really knocked me sideways. |
| Under the weather | feel ill (cảm thấy không khỏe) | I’m feeling a bit under the weather – I think I’m getting a cold. |
| A picture of health | one who is or looks especially healthy, robust, of full of vitality (ai đó trông rất khỏe mạnh) | My grandmother is nearly 70 and smokes two packs of cigarettes a day, but somehow she’s still the picture of health. |
| Out of shape | not physically healthy enough for difficult exercise because you have not been involved in physical activities (thể hình không đẹp do không tập thể dục nhiều) | I’m so out of shape that I get out of breath climbing the stairs. |
Trên đây là những mẫu Idioms mà đội ngũ azVocab đã tổng hợp. azVocab mong rằng đây sẽ là nguồn tham khảo hữu ích để phục vụ cho các sĩ tử trong phần thi IELTS Speaking.
