Daily Idioms From CSS Past Papers January 27, 2021

Daily Idioms From CSS Past Papers January 27, 2021

                                            2007

1) To put the lid on / keep the lid on

"Suppress"
Examples:

• I don't know how but we'll have to put the lid on that rumor about her.
• We’ve got to keep a lid on our credit-card purchases.

2) Gloom and doom

"the feeling that a situation is bad and is not likely to improve"
Examples:

• Come on, it's not all doom and gloom, if we make a real effort we could still win.
• She was full of gloom and doom.

3) To pig out

"Eat ravenously, gorge oneself"
Examples:

• The kids pigged out on the candy they had collected on Halloween.
• I pigged out on junk food and then slept the rest of the afternoon.

4) Compassion fatigue

"A weariness of and diminishing public response to frequent requests for charity."
Examples:

• I'm afraid the international community is suffering compassion fatigue .
• She is up against a society suffering compassion fatigue and fed up with crime.

5) No matters

"Some thing which is not important"
Examples:

• Yet, no matter how many times she tried to reassure herself of that, she remained concerned.
• Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.