Idioms For ielts speaking: Master 500+ Idioms In Use Explained In 10 Minutes a day

Get hitched/tie the knot: to get married.

Bill and Sarah will get hitched next month.

After 3 years of dating each other, Tom and Mary have finally decided to tie

the knot next July.

Go down in flames: to fail completely.

Many students went down in flames in the final exam.

After the scandal with the nanny, his career went down in flames.

Go the extra mile: doing more than what is expected in order to achieve

something.

Mr. Mike went the extra mile to resolve my problem.

He went the extra mile, taking me to the post office.

Golden opportunity: a very good opportunity or a chance to do something.

He missed a golden opportunity to join the military academy.

That was a golden opportunity to invest and export into new markets.

Green with envy: to be jealous/ to be envious (to feel very unhappy because

you don’t have something that someone else has)

Tom was green with envy when he saw that I got a new car for my birthday.

My expensive house makes him green with envy.

Get cold feet: become very nervous and afraid to do something that you had

planned to do.

She gets cold feet before marriage.

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He always gets cold feet when he delivers a speech in front of a lot of people.

He got cold feet before his wedding.