{"id":1240,"date":"2016-04-11T15:45:14","date_gmt":"2016-04-11T15:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=1240"},"modified":"2016-04-11T15:45:14","modified_gmt":"2016-04-11T15:45:14","slug":"some-idiomatic-expressions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/some-idiomatic-expressions\/","title":{"rendered":"Some idiomatic expressions"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Abandon yourself to<\/h3>\n<p>To abandon yourself to something is to give in to it completely.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The kids abandoned themselves to the joys of summer vacation.<\/li>\n<li>The dancers swung their bodies with wild abandon.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Be of no account<\/h3>\n<p>If something is of no account to you, it is of no importance to you.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Money was of no account to them.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Act on behalf of someone<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>To represent the interests of someone<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I am standing here on behalf of my countrymen.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Act of God<\/h3>\n<p>This expression is used to refer to an event caused by natural forces beyond the control of human beings.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Floods are an act of God.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Be angling for<\/h3>\n<p>To try to get something by indirectly prompting someone to offer it<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>She was angling for his support.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>The apple of your eye<\/h3>\n<p>A person you are extremely fond of.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>She is the apple of her father\u2019s eye.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Upset the apple cart<\/h3>\n<p>To upset the apple cart is to spoil a plan.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Now don\u2019t upset the apple cart by raising silly objections.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abandon yourself to To abandon yourself to something is to give in to it completely. The kids abandoned themselves to the joys of summer vacation. The dancers swung their bodies with wild abandon. Be&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[186],"class_list":["post-1240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-idioms","tag-idioms-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1241,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240\/revisions\/1241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}