Lesson no.1 part II

Lesson no.1 part II

ACCORD.1. Of one's own accord.
He went to America on his own accord.
2. With one accord.
The student voted for a picnic with one accord.
3. According to.
I joined the office according to your letter.
4. According as.
You can see me according as it is convenient to you.
5. In accordance with.
You've to go round the counter in accordance to the tour program me.

 ACCOUNT.

 1. One one's own account.
You can go home in the dark on your own account.
2. On one's own account.
A mother undergoes great privation on account of the child.
3. To open an account with.
I've opened an account with the Grind-lays Bank.
4 Not to open an account.
Our cricket team has not yet opened its account.
5. To close an account with.
I've closed my account in the Pakistan Bank/ Since he left the house, he has closed his account, with the parents.
6. To be accounted highly.
Pakistan is accounted highly in the communist countries.
7. To turn to account.
You should turn your energies and your abilities to proper account.
8. On account.
In USA you can buy anything on account.
9. Account for.
How do you account for your absence from the meeting.
10. The great account.
Don't commit sins lest you should forget the great account.
 11. To go to one's account.
Sooner or later, everyone must go to his account.
12. To call to account.
If you misbehave, one day you'll be called to account.
13. To square up an account.
If you pay the balance, your account will be squared up.

ACE

1. Within an ace to.
The boy was within an ace of topping the university.
2. To be acquainted with.
I'm not acquainted with many men of any importance.
3. Acquit.
Quaid-e-Azam and Iqbal acquitted themselves well.
4. To acquit oneself of.
The old couple acquitted themselves of their daughter's marriage before death.

ACROSS.

1. To come across.
You come across good and bad people everything.
2. To put across.
It was put across that he could pay a bribe to save income tax.
3. Across the table.
Many transaction take place across the table.

ACT.

1. Act.
When you offered him $ 10,0:00, I believe you were acting.
2. To act on.
You should take on my advice.
Liquor acts on health.
3. To act up to.
You should act upon the instruction of your office.
4. Act  of God.
His death just before marriage was an act an of God.

Action.

1. In action.
The laws are always in action.
2. Out of action.
Winter time table is out of action in summer.
3. To put into action.
Please put my advice into action.
4. Men of action.
Scholars are not men of action.

Adam.

1. Adam.
Don't behave as if you're Adam.
2. Adam's Ale.
Let us be content with Adam's ale.
3. Old as Adam.
Zanoni looked young although he was as old as Adam.

Lesson no.1

Lesson No. 1

A - First class
B - Second class
C - Third class

Jamil got a A in English, B in french but mere C in History.
Jamila is A in sports but C in studies.
If you want to pass IAS, you must be a in everything.

A-1.

This is A-1 wool.
Only A-1 students into the Pakistani Foreign Service.
From A to Z.
He has studies the book from A to Z.
From ABC to XYZ.
If you want to pass the Medical examination successfully, you must study all the subjects from ABC to XYZ.
From alpha to omega.
A technocrat must know from alpha to omega of his specialized department of knowledge.
Abide. 
God abides in the heart of a true man.
Abound in, with. 
The fish abound in sea.
 The sea abounds with fish.

ABOUT.

1. To go about.
One should go about one's business honestly.
2. Round about. 
Let us meet round about about the con-naught place.
3. Out and around.
Don't disturb me when I'm round and about the house.
4. To hand about.
The unemployed hang about factories for jobs.
5. To beat about the brush.
Let me know exactly what you want me to do for you.
Please stop beating about the brush.
6. To be put about.
The mother was put about by the illness of her child.
7. To go about.
Please go about your job earnestly.
The tourists go about the country with curiosity.
8. To bring about.
Independence has brought about many changes in Pakistan. since 1947.
9. To come about.
Pakistan republic day comes about 23rd of March every year.
10. To e dotted about.
A city is dotted about with electric poles.

ABOVE.

1. Above board.
Politicians are seldom above board.
2. Above the earth.
You can depend on the while I'm above the earth.
3. Above one's understanding.
Your philosophy is above my understanding.
4. Above one's means.
A five star hotel is above my means and dream.
5. Above one's station.
It doesn't pay marry above one's station.
6. Far and above.
Prime Minister ship is far and above most of the politicians.
7. Above criticism.
Nobody is above criticism.
8. Above all.
Truth is above all;
But above truth is truthful living.
9. Over and above.
He enjoy income from his property over and above his royalty from books.


Absence of mind.
Poets and philosophers are noted for their absence of mind.
Captain absolute.
In USA President is the captain absolute of the ship of states.
Absorbed.
Don't disturb me when I'm absorbed in writing a book .
Abstain from.
It best to abstain from liquor.
To abstract a thing from.
In these days of rising prices, an honest worker has to abstract every drop of blood from his body to make living a possibility.
Abundance of the heart.
It is the best to meet your friend with abundance of the heart if not with abundance of the purse.
Accede to.
He acceded to the proposal to help a friend out of his troubles.
To accept one's hand of friendship.
Pakistan has often refused to accept India hand of friendship.
Acceptable to. 
Your terms of business are acceptable for me.
Access to.
You cannot get a job unless you've access to the boss who makes the decision.
Accomplished in.
You've to be accomplished in something to make a name and fame.

How Idioms & Phrases Flower?

How Idioms & Phrases Flower?

To take the rap for someone else my not exactly conform to modern notions of heroism but it is a practice that has an honorable antiquity; the Biblical scapegoat has traditionally borne the blame for mistakes and crimes others have committed.  A latter day variant of the SCAPEGOAT is a WHIPPING BOY, one upon whom is inflicted punishment for the faults or wrongs of another; a fall guy. The idea of scapegoat occurs first in the Leviathan but we owe the English coinage to reformer-translator William Tyndale. The word is translation of the Hebrew ezozel, a goat the goes away, "a goat over the head of which the high priest of the Jews confused the sins of the people on the day of Atonement after which is was allowed to escape". The origin of the whipping boy is on less interesting, if much more recent. under the belief that the boy of a young princes was a holy and inviolable as the king, his father, and that therefore, no governess or tutor could chastise him a custom was introduced into England whereby any corporeal punishment, rightly or wrongly deserve by a prince-ling was transferred to the boy of another. The first to benefit was the way ward son of James I, the young prince who later became Charles I. William Murray, a lad of the prince's own age, was appointed to be his companion and fellow pupil, and to receive all punishment merited by either of two young men, to be the whipping boy of the prince and be flogged for all the faults of either. Whether or not a whipping boy was then a covered position, the custom died a natural death as the royal household became more liberal and democratic and therefore more images conscious.
The illusion, however, remained.

How Idioms & Phrases Flower?

How Idioms & Phrases Flower?

To take the rap for someone else my not exactly conform to modern notions of heroism but it is a practice that has an honorable antiquity; the Biblical scapegoat has traditionally borne the blame for mistakes and crimes others have committed.  A latter day variant of the SCAPEGOAT is a WHIPPING BOY, one upon whom is inflicted punishment for the faults or wrongs of another; a fall guy. The idea of scapegoat occurs first in the Leviathan but we owe the English coinage to reformer-translator William Tyndale. The word is translation of the Hebrew ezozel, a goat the goes away, "a goat over the head of which the high priest of the Jews confused the sins of the people on the day of Atonement after which is was allowed to escape". The origin of the whipping boy is on less interesting, if much more recent. under the belief that the boy of a young princes was a holy and inviolable as the king, his father, and that therefore, no governess or tutor could chastise him a custom was introduced into England whereby any corporeal punishment, rightly or wrongly deserve by a prince-ling was transferred to the boy of another. The first to benefit was the way ward son of James I, the young prince who later became Charles I. William Murray, a lad of the prince's own age, was appointed to be his companion and fellow pupil, and to receive all punishment merited by either of two young men, to be the whipping boy of the prince and be flogged for all the faults of either. Whether or not a whipping boy was then a covered position, the custom died a natural death as the royal household became more liberal and democratic and therefore more images conscious.
The illusion, however, remained.