{"id":1769,"date":"2017-01-22T16:54:01","date_gmt":"2017-01-22T16:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=1769"},"modified":"2017-01-22T16:54:01","modified_gmt":"2017-01-22T16:54:01","slug":"i-cant-stand-her-english-idioms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/i-cant-stand-her-english-idioms\/","title":{"rendered":"I can&#8217;t stand her | English idioms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">Smitha is upset with her roommate Aruna because she brings her friends over late night. She talks about these problems during a conversation with her friend Anita.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Anita: So, how is your new roommate?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Smitha: I can\u2019t stand her. She really turns me off.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Anita: What happened? You don\u2019t seem to like her.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Smitha: To be frank, I don\u2019t. I\u2019ve serious issues with her. You know what? She brings her friends over late at night, almost every night and then they keep the lights and music on. I\u2019m fed up. I don\u2019t get any sleep.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Anita: Why don\u2019t you have a heart-to-heart talk with her? She isn\u2019t supposed to behave like that.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Smitha: I did have a talk with her and things were okay for a few days but now she\u2019s started bringing her friends again.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Anitha: In that case you should complain to your landlady and get her evicted.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Smitha: I think that\u2019s exactly what I\u2019m going to do now.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Notes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When you \u2018can\u2019t stand somebody\u2019, you dislike him \/ her very much. The idiom \u2018I can\u2019t stand the sight of somebody \/ something\u2019 also means the same.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">I can\u2019t stand the sight of blood.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">He can\u2019t stand his boss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smitha is upset with her roommate Aruna because she brings her friends over late night. She talks about these problems during a conversation with her friend Anita.\u00a0 Anita: So, how is your new roommate?&#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":[4],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-1769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-speaking","tag-english-speaking-lessons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1769","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=1769"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1770,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1769\/revisions\/1770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}