雅思口语常见的50个习语及其正确用法（3）
彭静 2024-08-13 17:36:25
习语是是一种表达风格或形式，通常是一组单词或单个单词，在英语对话中正确使用习语有助于提高雅思口语分数。羊驼雅思整理了雅思口语常见的50个习语及其正确用法（3）如下，供大家参考。
在英语对话中是否能正确使用习语是将英语母语者和将英语作为外语学习的人区分开来的方法。在雅思口语测试中，如果使用得当，使用习语可以帮助提高口语分数。反之，如果不能正确使用，它也会降低考生的分数。以下是羊驼雅思整理的雅思口语常见的习语及例句，篇幅所限，了解更多雅思口语习语查看雅思口语常见的50个习语及其正确用法（1）
| 习语 | 释义 | 例句 |
| up-market | Relatively expensive and designed to appeal to wealthy consumers | An up-market restaurant that is quite pricey but also quite good. |
| cram | to try to accomplish a lot quickly, also can mean to try to put a lot of items in a tight fit | The students are all cramming to get ready for the exams. |
| in high spirits | extremely happy | They'd had a couple of drinks and were in high spirits. |
| keep one's chin up | remain brave and keep on trying ; remain cheerful in difficult circumstances. | Keep your chin up. Don't take your troubles to bed with you. Keep your chin up. Things will get better sooner or later. |
| read my/your/his mind | guess what somebody is thinking | I was surprised he knew what I was planning, like he could read my mind. |
| get the ball rolling | start doing something, especially something big | 1、I decided to get the ball rolling and got up to dance. 2、You should get the ball rolling as soon as possible to be well-prepared for the IELTS test. |
| for ages | for a very long time | I waited for ages but he never showed up. |
| fill in for someone | do someone's work while he is away; substitute for | Bill is going to be filling in for me while I'm out on maternity leave. |
| antsy | getting restless. | The guys are getting antsy, we need to go somewhere else before they get too noisy. |
| (as) easy as pie | very easy | For Tom, getting a graphic design certificate was easy as pie –he seemed to have a natural talent for it. |
| under the weather | sick; not completely well | I noticed that the cat was looking a little under the weather. |
| fingers-crossed = keep one's fingers crossed (for someone or something) | to wish for luck for someone or something | We're keeping our fingers crossed that he'll be healthy again very soon. |
| have a chin-wag | have a long conversation between friends; have a chat | We had a good chin-wag over a bottle of wine. |
| chicken scratch (n) | the handwriting that is crammed or illegible | His signature—an unforgeably idiosyncratic chicken scratch. |
| the wee hours | after midnight | He was up until the wee hours trying to finish his work. |
| a blessing in a disguise | something that seems bad or unlucky at first, but results in something good happening later | Losing that job was a blessing in disguise really. |
| all in the same boat | in the same difficult situation as someone else | None of us has any money, so we're all in the same boat. |
| beating around the bush | avoid the main topic and not speaking directly about it | Let's stop beating about the bush and discuss this matter. |
| early bird | someone who gets up early | I never miss sunrise. I'm an early bird. |
| a breath of fresh air | something that is new & refreshing | Selena was a talented and beautiful entertainer, a breath of fresh air in an industry full of people all trying to copy each other. |
| keep an eye on | to monitor a situation, not forget about it. | Keep an eye on the noodles, there almost done. |
| keep your nose to the grindstone | continue to put forward a good effort | If you keep your nose to the grindstone, you will finish this job tonight. |
| know something inside out/know something backwards and forwards | to be totally familiar with | He knows that subject backwards and forwards. |
| leave well enough alone | to not try to change something that is good enough | This repair is not perfect, but let's leave well enough alone. |
| now and then | on an occasional basis, often "every" is used as the first word of this idiomatic phrase. | Every now and then I have a good idea. |
