{"id":1429,"date":"2016-09-09T16:09:13","date_gmt":"2016-09-09T16:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=1429"},"modified":"2016-09-09T16:09:13","modified_gmt":"2016-09-09T16:09:13","slug":"idioms-n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/idioms-n\/","title":{"rendered":"Idioms &#8211; N"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A nail in the coffin<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An expression used to refer to an action or event likely to cause something to come to an end or fail.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Call someone names<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To call someone names is to insult them verbally.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You stopped short of calling me names.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>In someone\u2019s name<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If something is in someone\u2019s name, it is registered as belonging to them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Narrow something down<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To narrow something down is to reduce the number of possibilities of something.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Get on someone\u2019s nerves<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To get on someone\u2019s nerves is to irritate them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nip something in the bud<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To nip something in the bud is to stop it at an early stage.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bad habits should be nipped in the bud.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Give someone the nod<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To give someone the nod is to approve them. To give something the nod is to approve it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cut off your nose to spite your face<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To cut off your nose to spite your face is to do something which is likely to harm someone else but which also harms yourself.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Put someone\u2019s nose out of joint<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To put someone\u2019s nose out of joint is to offend them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Turn your nose up at<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To turn your nose up at something is to show contempt for it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Notch something up<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To notch something up is to achieve something.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Now and again<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>From time and time<\/p>\n<p>You need to revise your lessons now and again.<\/p>\n<p><strong>To the nth degree<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To an extreme degree<\/p>\n<p><strong>Null and void<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If a contract is null and void, it is illegal.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Someone\u2019s days are numbered<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If someone\u2019s days are numbered, they will not survive for much longer.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>His health isn\u2019t showing any signs of improvement. His days are numbered.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Someone\u2019s number is up<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When someone\u2019s number is up, they are finished or about to die.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A nail in the coffin An expression used to refer to an action or event likely to cause something to come to an end or fail. Call someone names To call someone names is&#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":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-idioms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1429","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=1429"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1430,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1429\/revisions\/1430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}