{"id":1353,"date":"2016-07-06T13:01:35","date_gmt":"2016-07-06T13:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=1353"},"modified":"2016-07-06T13:01:35","modified_gmt":"2016-07-06T13:01:35","slug":"idioms-and-phrasal-verbs-with-account-and-arm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/idioms-and-phrasal-verbs-with-account-and-arm\/","title":{"rendered":"Idioms and phrasal verbs with account and arm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a list of idomatic expressions with arm.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cost an arm and a leg<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If something costs an arm and a leg, it is very expensive.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>That laptop costs an arm and a leg.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Keep someone or something at arm\u2019s length<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To keep someone at arm\u2019s length is to avoid close contacts with them.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He always keeps his neighbors at arm\u2019s length.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>With open arms<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To receive someone with open arms is to receive them with great enthusiasm.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The parents received their estranged son with open arms.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Account for<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To account for something is to give a satisfactory explanation.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Can you account for your absence from school?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Call someone to account<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To call someone to account is to ask them to explain their poor performance.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Rahul had been missing his deadlines so his boss called him to account.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>On account of<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On account of means \u2018because of\u2019<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>They sacked him on account of his poor performance.<\/li>\n<li>There will be no edition of this newspaper on Monday on account of Holi.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>On no account (= under no circumstances)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You must on no account post too much personal information on social media.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You must not on any account reveal your real name.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Take account of<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To take account of something is to take that into consideration.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We must take account of his political affiliations before offering him this job.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a list of idomatic expressions with arm. Cost an arm and a leg If something costs an arm and a leg, it is very expensive. That laptop costs an arm and a&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[294,295],"class_list":["post-1353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-phrasal-verbs","tag-phrasal-verbs-with-account","tag-sa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1354,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353\/revisions\/1354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}