Frase dan Idiom dalam Bahasa Inggris

Phrasal Verb

Kata Kerja	Sinonim	Arti
Call off	cancel	membatalkan
Put something off	delay	Menunda
Run out	No more	Habis
Come down with something	Get sick	Jatuh sakit
Put someone’s foot in his mouth	Talk dirty/ say something embarrasing	Ngomong kotor
Hold off	delay	Menunda
Play with fire	Do something dangerous	Melakukan hal berbahaya
Cut something out	stop	Berhenti
Look something over	review	Memeriksa
Take after	resemble	Mirip
Take a part	separate	Memisahkan
Take something out on someone	Being angry at	Marah kepada seseorang

Idiom atau Ungkapan

Ungkapan	Sinonim	Arti
Burn the candles at both ends	Do something too much	Lebay
A piece of cake	easy	Mudah
All in a day’s work	regular	Biasa saja
You could hear a pin drop	Very quiet	Sangat sepi
Better late than never	Good to do it late instead of not	Lebih baik terlambat daripada tidak sama sekali
Two heads are better than one	Good idea to work together	Lebih baik bekerja sama
There’s no time like present	The best time is now	Paling baik saat ini juga
Just my luck	Not lucky	Menyesal/beruntung
To each his own	Everyone is different	Orang punya selera berda-beda
No sooner said than done	immediately	Segera
You could have knocked me down with a feather	Really surprised	Sangat terkejut
We’re all in the same boat	Same idea	Ide yang sama
Head and shoulders above the rest	The best	Terbaik
Dot all the i’s and crosses all the t’s	Need to pay attention to every detail	Perhatikan detail-detail kecil
A chip of the old block	Resemble	Mirip
Bark up the wrong tree	Make mistakes	Bikin salah
Keep something as long as you can	Shouldn’t give up/ keep trying	Tidak boleh menyerah
Swim upstream	Do very difficult things	Melakukan hal susah
Hit the nail on the head	Exactly correct	tepat
Catch the drift	understand	mengerti
Will be a breeze	Will be easy	Akan menjadi mudah

Sumber: Buku Cara Gaul Kuasai TOEFL, karangan Yusup Priyasudiardja & Y. Sri Purwaningsih.