IELTS Speaking – Tổng hợp Idioms chủ đề: Transport and Travel
22 Tháng Mười Hai, 2022Thành ngữ cho IELTS
Chủ đề Transport và Travel là hai chủ đề quen thuộc trong cuộc sống của chúng ta. Và đó cũng là hai chủ đề thường xuyên xuất hiện trong kì thi IELTS Speaking. Vậy các thí sinh hãy theo dõi bài viết phía dưới để biết được các Idioms trong topic này, từ đó có thể diễn đạt ý nói của chính mình được trơn chu, chỉn chu và dễ dàng hơn nhé!
| IDIOMS | MEANING | EXAMPLE |
| Be plain sailing | to be smooth, uninterrupted, and/or easy, especially as of progress, travel, or development (thuận buồm xuôi gió) | The roads were busy as we drove out of town, but after that it was plain sailing. |
| Beat a retreat | to leave a place or situation quickly (rời đi nhanh chóng) | When the rain started, everyone on the field beat a retreat indoors. |
| Get/have itchy feet | to start to want to travel or do something different (muốn đi du lịch hoặc làm gì đó khác đi) | Every so often, Claire gets itchy feet and sets off for a foreign destination. |
| Go to ground | to hide at a location where one will not easily be found (chốn ở một nơi nào đó khó tìm thấy) | I needed to go to ground at my vacation home after making that huge blunder at work. |
| Hit the road | to leave a place or begin a journey (khởi hành, bắt đầu chuyến đi) | We better hit the road before traffic gets even worse. |
| Get away from it all | to go somewhere, usually on holiday, where you can completely relax and forget your responsibilities or problems (muốn rời xa nhịp sống thường nhật, đến một nơi xa để thư giãn) | Ugh, I just need to get away from it all – let’s go to the beach this weekend. |
| Hit the town | to spend time in the area of a city or town where there are a lot of restaurants, bars, etc. (dành thời gian trong thành phố hoặc thị trấn) | It’s Saturday night! Let’s hit the town! |
| Live out of a suitcase | travel a lot, and therefore be limited to the contents of a suitcase (di chuyển nhiều và không ở một chỗ quá lâu nên thường hạn chế về hành lí) | My job involves so much travelling that I practically live out of a suitcase. |
| Travel light | to bring very few things with you when you go somewhere (mang theo rất ít đồ khi đi đâu đó, thường lựa chọn những đồ thật sự cần thiết) | Please travel light in our vacation! |
| Have a whale of a time | to enjoy yourself very much (tận hưởng vô cùng vui vẻ) | I always have a whale of a time with my family whenever we visit Da Lat. |
| Everything but the kitchen sink | a much larger number of things than is necessary (nhiều đồ đạc không cần thiết) | We’re only going on vacation for a week, but John will insist on taking everything but the kitchen sink. |
| Let one’s hair down | to allow yourself to behave much more freely than usual and enjoy yourself (thư giãn bản thân) | Travelling really lets my hair down. |
| At the crack of dawn | very early in the morning, especially at the time when the sun first appears (sáng sớm tinh mơ) | We’ll have to leave at the crack of dawn. |
| Bright and early | in the early morning (sáng sớm tinh mơ) | I had to wake up bright and early to make sure I was at the airport in time for my 7 AM flight. |
| Red eye flight/ The red eye | a plane journey during the night, usually one that is over a long distance (chuyến bay đêm muộn) | She took the red eye from New York. |
| From pillar to post | if someone goes from pillar to post, they are forced to keep moving from one place to another (liên tục phải di chuyển từ nơi này đến nơi khác) | My parents were always on the move and so my childhood was spent being dragged from pillar to post. |
| Hitch a lift/ride | to get a free ride in someone else’s vehicle as a way of travelling (đi nhờ xe ai đó) | They hitched a lift to Edinburgh from a passing car. |
| The highways and byways | the roads and paths of a place (mọi nẻo đường của một nơi nào đó) | They travelled the highways and byways of Britain. |
| At the wheel | to drive a vehicle (lái xe) | Don’t worry, Katie’s at the wheel, and she is very good at driving in the snow. |
| Jump the lights | to drive on when the traffic lights are red (vượt đèn đỏ) | It’s dangerous to jump the lights. You may have a terrible accident. |
| Put the pedal to the metal | to accelerate to or travel at the maximum speed (đi nhanh hết cỡ) | It would normally take us three days to drive to New York from Colorado, but with my brother putting the pedal to the metal, we made it in two. |
| Break the journey | to stop and rest somewhere in the midst of one’s travels (dừng lại nghỉ chân trong chuyến đi) | We plan to break the journey in upstate New York for a night before continuing on to Toronto. |
| At a fast/good clip | fast (nhanh) | We set off at a good clip, but we gradually slowed down. |
Trên đây là những mẫu Idioms mà azVocab trong chủ đề TRANSPORT & TRAVEL của bài thi IELTS Speaking, giúp bạn hiểu và có sự chuẩn bị tốt hơn cho bài thi IELTS thực tế. Hãy luyện tập thật nhiều và chuẩn bị tốt cho kỳ thi IELTS sắp tới nhé!
