{"id":72852,"date":"2019-11-12T06:26:51","date_gmt":"2019-11-12T06:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=72852"},"modified":"2019-11-12T06:26:51","modified_gmt":"2019-11-12T06:26:51","slug":"game-idioms-common-idioms-in-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/game-idioms-common-idioms-in-english\/","title":{"rendered":"Game Idioms | Common Idioms In English"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a list of idioms using the word game. Each idiom is followed by its meaning \/ definition. Example sentences are also given.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ahead of the game<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To be ahead of the game is to have an advantage over the situation.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Apple has consistently launched affordable tablets with nice specs. Needless to say, in the tablet space, they are way ahead of the game.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>At this stage of the game<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>= at a certain point in a process<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We need to seek expert advice at this stage of the game.<\/li>\n<li>There is hardly anything that we can do at this stage of the game.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Give the game away<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To give the game away is to reveal a secret.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If you want the party to be a secret, don\u2019t say anything about it to Susie. She will give the game away.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>New ball game = A new situation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is true that she is a successful model, but acting is an altogether new ball game.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Although he was a successful diplomat, politics was still a whole new ball game for him.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The game is up<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When the game is up, the situation is lost.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I realized that the game was up when we lost that contract to our rivals.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a list of idioms using the word game. Each idiom is followed by its meaning \/ definition. Example sentences are also given. Ahead of the game To be ahead of the game&#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":[1841,393,1865],"class_list":["post-72852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-idioms","tag-common-idioms-in-english","tag-english-idioms","tag-game-idioms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72852","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=72852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72853,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72852\/revisions\/72853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}