{"id":1437,"date":"2016-09-09T16:22:44","date_gmt":"2016-09-09T16:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=1437"},"modified":"2016-09-09T16:22:44","modified_gmt":"2016-09-09T16:22:44","slug":"idioms-m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/idioms-m\/","title":{"rendered":"Idioms &#8211; M"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Make the most of<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To make the most of something is to use it to the best advantage.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He made the most of his foreign holiday by visiting\u00a0as many places as he could.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Make a move<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To make a move is to take action.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mow someone down<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To mow someone down is to kill them by gunfire or by knocking them down with a car.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The old woman was mowed down by a truck.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Muck something up<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To muck something up is to spoil something.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Muck about \/ around<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To muck about is to behave in a silly way.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mull something over<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To mull something over is to think about something at length.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mum\u2019s the word<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An expression used to mean that you will not reveal a secret.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pass muster<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If something passes muster, it is accepted as satisfactory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Make the most of To make the most of something is to use it to the best advantage. He made the most of his foreign holiday by visiting\u00a0as many places as he could. Make&#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":[186],"class_list":["post-1437","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\/1437","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=1437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1438,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437\/revisions\/1438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}