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Regina Tuyen Le
2022-02-12 09:02
Put/turn something to good account British idiom formal verb phrase
To make good use of something in a positive way.
He turned his negotiation skills to good account and won a big project.
She puts her language skills to good account by being an interpreter for a foreign director.
Put your free time to good account by learning a new language and meeting new friends.
Used to indicate that someone who arrives at some place or do something first will get the most amount of some advantageous quality, resource, or commodity
To lose the skill or advantage one used to have in the past
Said when someone has the skill or competence in something and could use it anywhere
The verb " put/ turn" should be conjugated according to its tense.
This phrase first appeared in 1878, and the word "account" means "a reckoning."
Do you see anything wrong?
If you swallow the bait, you take something that someone offers you, or agree to do something that someone asks you to do without knowing that it is a trick or way of getting something from you.
You can't just do whatever he wants you to do. Don't swallow the bait.
