{"id":72861,"date":"2019-11-15T05:56:31","date_gmt":"2019-11-15T05:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=72861"},"modified":"2019-11-15T05:56:31","modified_gmt":"2019-11-15T05:56:31","slug":"idioms-using-the-word-look","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/idioms-using-the-word-look\/","title":{"rendered":"Idioms Using The Word Look"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a list of idioms and expressions built around the word &#8216;look&#8217;. Each idiom is followed by its meaning and example sentences.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Look before you leap<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Used for advising people to think carefully before they act<\/p>\n<p><strong>Look down your nose at<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When you look down your nose at somebody, you think that you are better or more important than him or her.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Julie has this nasty habit of looking down her nose at her neighbours.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Look bad \/ good<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When something looks bad \/ good it is considered to be a good \/ bad thing to do.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0I think it will look bad if we don\u2019t invite them to our party.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Look good \/ bad for<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To seem to be going to have a good\/bad result<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Things aren\u2019t looking too good for us at the moment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Look someone in the eye\/face<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To look someone in the face is to look at their face when you are talking to them to show that what you are saying is true.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Can you look me in the eye and say that you haven\u2019t stolen the money?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Be looking to do something<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When you are looking to do something, you are planning to do something.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We are looking to expand our business in Europe.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Look the other way<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To look the other way is to deliberately ignore something bad that is happening before your eyes.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You can\u2019t just look the other way if you suspect that he is cheating on you.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Look someone up and down<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To look someone up and down is to carefully look at them as if you are trying to make a judgment about them.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>She looked us up and down as if we were aliens.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a list of idioms and expressions built around the word &#8216;look&#8217;. Each idiom is followed by its meaning and example sentences. Look before you leap Used for advising people to think carefully&#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":[393,1868,1867],"class_list":["post-72861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-idioms","tag-english-idioms","tag-idioms-with-look","tag-look-idioms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72861","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=72861"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72862,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72861\/revisions\/72862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}