Getting the Meaning of Idioms and Expressions

Read the sentences and parts of sentences taken from the article and write the best explanation you can for the phrase in italics. The expressions are used in the order they appear in the reading.

1		Employers, recruiters, or directors of human resources have so many résumés to look at that they will take any excuse they can find to throw yours out: misspellings, bad punctuation, poor organization—even an ugly font can turn them off.
2		Here are a few tips for crafting a winning résumé, as well as some things to avoid.
3		Your last ten years of experience should carry more weight and contain more information than your earlier positions.
4		Typos and grammatical mistakes are the kiss of death and can get your résumé thrown out immediately.
5		Instead of always using words like "developed" or "led," break out that thesaurus and try words like "leveraged," "delivered," "directed," "established," or "initiated."
6		Don't fudge dates or job titles in order to hide that you've frequently switched jobs or that you've held a number of low-level positions.