🗓️ Idiom: Unwind (verb)
💬 Meaning
- To relax and stop worrying after a period of work or stress.
- To take time to rest and recover your energy.
🧠 Example Sentences
- After a long day at the office, Mia likes to unwind by reading a good book.
- The company offers yoga classes to help employees unwind during busy weeks.
- He took a short trip to the beach to unwind and recharge before the next project.
🏛️ Origin
The word “unwind” originally meant to loosen or untwist something, like a rope or thread. Now people use it to describe relaxing the mind and body after tension or hard work, similar to releasing something that has been tightly wound.
📝 Practice Exercises
1. Fill in the blank:
After the stressful meeting, she listened to music to ________.
Answer
unwind
2. Choose the correct answer:
What does “unwind” mean?
a) To work harder
b) To relax and rest
c) To get angry
Answer
b) To relax and rest
3. Change the sentence using “unwind”:
“He watched a movie to help him relax after a long day.”
Answer
He watched a movie to unwind after a long day.
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Rob is a CELTA qualified English teacher with 15 years of international experience. He has a BSc and PGDip from Loughborough and St Andrews universities in the UK. He has taught in Thailand and Saudi Arabia and now works with professionals worldwide.
