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Idiom: at your fingertips (used idiomatically: yes)
Vanessa Stedman , one of the winners of the GH / NatWest Bank Enterprising Women Awards 1991 , wrote to tell us that since appearing in our November issue , the postman has been staggering under the weight of all the orders for her fashionable appliqué T - shirts . That 's the power of Good Housekeeping for you . I know this is a very foodie ( and fattening ! ) time of year , but Moyra Fraser , our Cookery Editor , and the rest of the GHI team have taken enormous care to see that you have a marvellous variety of recipes for festive entertaining at your fingertips . And under the guidance of Nutritionist Fiona Hunter , we 're launching a special slimline eating plan next month , guaranteed to deal with any of those excess Christmas inches . We 've all fallen in love with our cover picture this month , and hope you will too — it 's got such a happy , festive feel .
Idiom: behind closed doors (used idiomatically: yes)
Today , too many Latin governments , fearful of the media 's ability to expose misdeeds , have altered their tactics but remain determined to limit press freedom . Latin ~ American journalists may face a diminished threat of murder nowadays , but many still confront a gauntlet of challenges designed to control them . Behind closed doors , governments wield financial incentives and regulatory powers to mute media criticism and twist editorial content in their favor . Without a critical press , Latin ~ America 's undeniable advances toward real democracy – development of an informed , empowered citizenry and governments respectful of the legitimate boundaries of power – will be endangered , even as formal electoral trappings become more routine . There is an alarming pattern of press manipulation throughout the region , from Honduran authorities cutting off a national radio ~ station 's telephone service to Argentine officials shuttering a printing press .
Idiom: upset the apple cart (used idiomatically: yes)
The home side have doubts over Kenny Logan , Matt McGrandles , John Wright , Jim Brough and Brian Robertson ; among those on standby are teenage winger , Colin MacRobert , and Mark McKenzie . Though Alan Watt is back training , he is not included in GH - K 's 24-strong squad , which includes a French No8 , Franck Gruel , who has been playing for the 2nds . Bottom - placed Dundee HSFP set a few hearts pounding with that fine win over Kelso , and another against Gala at Mayfield would really upset the relegation apple - cart . Neil Ritchie continues at No8 for the home side , while Gala , still minus Michael Dods and Jimmy Turnbull , are along their usual lines . Kelso field the XV who thrashed Heriot 's last Friday , Graeme Aitchison remaining at stand - off with Neil Heseltine at centre , for their home match with Boroughmuir , who play Alan Nisbet at lock .
Idiom: to the bone (used idiomatically: yes)
Muscles atrophy in microgravity . A host of countermeasures have been devised and a few tried , such as exercise bikes and treadmills to which crew members are strapped . This machinery is bulky and does little to provide the ' shock ' to bones of earthbound exercise that they apparently require for health . Moreover , muscles need different types of exercise ; exercise that contracts muscles but does not elongate them may not be adequate . Engineers at NASA are working on several contraptions , such as inclined platforms with a variety of weights and pulleys , that demand a wider range of effort .
Idiom: make or break (used idiomatically: yes)
Lawson calls for Budget tax increase Boost for economy as Lamont prepares for crucial test By Ewen MacAskill Political Editor A CALL for a substantial increase in tax in this afternoon 's make - or - break Budget was made yesterday by Lord Lawson , the former Chancellor . The unexpected , and probably unwelcome , advice came as the Chancellor , Norman Lamont , was busy rewriting the Budget speech in an attempt to secure his own political survival . Lord Lawson did not specify which taxes should be increased but he appeared to be calling for higher indirect taxation , rather than higher income tax , to bring in an extra £ 6 billion .
Idiom: all over the place (used idiomatically: yes)
He goes through all the emotions . He is upset , composed , then happy . Like all children , his mind jumps all over the place . We talk to him in his language and we have tried to lift as much of the experience from his mind as we can so that it does n't fester , get covered over , then burst out in 10 years time and turn him into a disturbed child . Until now , he has had to be with his father 100 per cent of the time .
Idiom: down the drain (used idiomatically: no)
No . People just do n't think . They just tip it oh tip it down the drain . Same with petrol stations I mean the way they spill the petrol . I know !
Idiom: in black and white (used idiomatically: yes)
He worked out where The Bar was on his maps , and then checked this perspective against the actual view — from where he saw the city it looked like The Bar was right in the middle of it , not hidden away at all like it was on the map . He also got a copy of the underground railway map , and tried to trace that invisible geography over what he could actually see ; he would even try and trace the map of the flight paths of aeroplanes over the city , deciding which direction indicated which distant country . Boy thought he would like to see the city under heavy snow ; then it would look like a real map , all in black and white , the river a thick black ribbon , or , if frozen as he knew it had once been , a clean white ribbon , the only space in the city without streets , names , lights or indeed owners . The man who actually had the lease or paid the rent anyway on this flat was a man who worked sorting for the Post Office . Boy was his lodger I suppose .
Idiom: fall between two stools (used idiomatically: yes)
Abel Ferrara 's Ms 45 Angel of Vengance is at least a wittier variation on the same theme , played as straightforward exploitation entertainment , with men as most of its victims . Even the forthcoming Australian film Shame , informed by feminism to an extent , conforms to this pattern . Its attempt to combine serious social comment with an escapist action movie format cause it to fall heavily between two stools . It 's fun to see the no - nonsense , motor - bike - riding heroine beating up on the men in true fantasy - heroic style , but her attempts to encourage her young protege in self - defence end in disaster , making the messages it gives out totally confused and its solutions seeming no more realistic than Ms 45 storing her rapist in the fridge and blowing male scum off the street . The movie that provoked most debate around rape and its representation before The Accused , was Lamont Johnson 's 1976 film Lipstick , which at least did make some attempt to make connections between the rape and the wider social implications of how society constructs images of women .
Idiom: dig deep (used idiomatically: yes)
By Hilary Applegate IF YOUR garden suffers from slow - draining surface water , slow plant growth or shallow rooting , it could pay dividends to find out whether a soil profile could provide you with a diagnosis . This involves an area of about one square yard of currently uncultivated land , together with a sturdy spade and lots of energy , for you are seeking evidence of an impermeable layer , or hard pan , down below the ground . You should dig a pit a yard deep ; for comfort while digging , this will need to be about a square yard in area . While excavating , take care to keep the different soil layers separate from each other , because each should be replaced at its original depth . Having completed the pit , look for signs of compaction : vertical roots turning 90 degrees to the horizontal at a particular level , or a layer which just looks hard and compacted , or a wet , grey or blue band between one and six inches deep .
Idiom: bite someone's head off (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ I 'll get you an especially big helping , Ellis . Incidentally , they 're all still being careful about alcohol . I was trying to ply Fagg with extra claret and he almost bit my head off.’ ‘ But he 's always biting your head off , is n't he?’ said Pooley . ‘ Not today , other than just now .
Idiom: have it easy (used idiomatically: yes)
The questions of theory and of hypothesis seemed wrong now , and looking from face to face , he wondered how much good the answers would do him . To encourage himself as much as anything , he ventured a handful of general questions about Neferukhebit 's activities on the days leading up to her death — questions which resulted in conventional answers , the activities of any rich young girl marking time between the end of her education and the arrival of her husband — for these girls were on the fringes of the royal household , and work such as Taheb did — was taboo to their class . Ankhu and Nebamun would have it easier , but for the majority of privileged men work was a nominal activity as they laboured more or less intelligently in the upper ranks of the army , the civil service and the priesthood ; most of the graft was done for them at a humbler level . The boy was quieter than his sister , and gave tongue - tied answers . His sister 's death seemed to have affected him more deeply , though he bore himself with a kind of frightened dignity in front of his father .
Idiom: under fire (used idiomatically: yes)
The 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin ~ Wall will be commemorated in November , and it has been five years since the European ~ Union ’s “ Big ~ Bang ” enlargement . The Cold ~ War division of Europe is well and truly over . But , instead of setting off fireworks , the EU finds itself under fire , as the global economic crisis confronts it with the greatest challenge it has seen since 1989 . After years of strong growth and remarkable resilience , the Union ’s new member states in the east are being hit hard by the economic turmoil that started in the west . Integration into the global economy , a crucial source of capital , stability , and innovation , has become a threat to many of these countries .
Idiom: take someone's word for it (used idiomatically: yes)
and King 's Lynn is close to the wash , King 's Lynn is in this area here . Oh . So from London to King 's Lynn is , they say , a hundred miles and I 'll take their word for it , London to Ipswich in fact is seventy miles . Oh . But , yeah , that 's about a hundred miles you see , that would be about right , yeah .
Idiom: change hands (used idiomatically: yes)
His suggestions topple easily into the territory of pay - for - play . He is no advocate of finishing a test match and being handed a £ 2,000 cheque for his efforts , et he has no qualms about wishing all the best to the rugby gypsies playing in Italy , France and South Africa . ‘ Last I heard , the Eiffel Tower had n't collapsed and neither had Rome been sacked by pagans because of money perhaps changing hands in return for playing rugby’ , he says . ‘ The way I look at it , they 're over there and are lucky enough to make a dollar for something they enjoy . Good luck to them .
Idiom: hear things (used idiomatically: no)
’ What are you talking about?’ ’ We have learned things about the galaxy,’she replied grimly,’and we will be greatly glad to get back to our Ardakke . But out here we have searched and looked and listened — and we have heard things . We have heard about a planet called Vadinamia , where our stolen phetam may have been taken . And we have heard that Del Curb was on that planet , along with numerous evil people who seek the phetam Now all the evil ones seem to be on Uulaa , pursuing Del Curb , As are we.’
Idiom: from the word go (used idiomatically: yes)
That 's right I mean you do n't I mean I was asked to do it right from the word go was n't I ? And you dealt with the erm , the , the various taxes and whatnots . That 's right
Idiom: small print (used idiomatically: no)
Which recent Was ( Not Was ) album title concerned offspring incarceration ? This competition closes on 31st October 1992 , when the winners will be drawn at random . the small print The Editor 's decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into . All phone calls will be charged at 36p per minute ( cheap rate ) and 48p ( at all other times ) .
Idiom: with bated breath (used idiomatically: yes)
But she had qualms about encountering the royal family , wondering if they would see her , not as Anne Mowbray , but as a stranger . That , she thought , will be the moment of truth … Received by the king and queen as she made her entrance , she curtsied deeply , and waited with bated breath for what would happen next . ‘ Ah , our beauteous daughter - in - law!’ said the king with his usual bonhomie and turning to the queen . ‘ Is not our little bride a sight for sore eyes!’
Idiom: get lost (used idiomatically: yes)
well that 's no problem and then from there even I ca n't get lost famous last words yeah
Idiom: live wire (used idiomatically: yes)
Safety first Apart from making sure that permanent mains - voltage lights are installed by a competent electrician , the main way of protecting yourself against getting an electric shock from garden lights is to install an RCD . This senses the current flowing in the live and neutral wires and cuts off the electricity if there is a fault anywhere in the circuit . A permanent garden circuit can be protected by a whole - circuit RCD , wired into the cable(s ) after the consumer unit ( unless the consumer itself is RCD protected ) . Temporary mains - voltage lighting ( and the transformer for low - voltage lighting ) can be protected either by plugging it into an adaptor RCD , which goes into the socket outlet first , or by plugging it into an RCD socket , which can easily be fitted to replace a normal socket outlet .
Idiom: play games (used idiomatically: yes)
He might want her , but he did n't love her . He certainly did n't trust her , and that left no foundation for anything . ‘ Travis , stop playing games . We 're not lovers ! We had one night .
Idiom: on the make (used idiomatically: no)
Use a spotlight on plants with a strong profile , such as a yucca or red hot poker , or a tall , feathery fennel . These will look imposing and create a dramatic effect with shadows . Ornaments , such as an interesting pot or a bust on a plinth , which make good daytime focal points , also look good at night . Avoid allowing light to shine into neighbours ' gardens or into windows . Do not direct a beam where people will walk through it : eyes take time to readjust to dark areas again , and this can be a potential hazard .
Idiom: on the nose (used idiomatically: yes)
He studied her thoughtfully , and then said softly , ' You look nervous , Miss Marlowe . ' ' Do I ? ' She could n't take her eyes off the livid scratch on his nose . It made him look more like a ruthless pirate than ever . ' Hmm . '
Idiom: feel the pinch (used idiomatically: yes)
HARDWARE The only thing thick on the ground at this year 's climbing and camping trade show were the bargain hunters . Manufacturers , distributors and retailers have all felt the pinch during the recession and some hard bargaining was going on over coffee and orange juice . Karabiners What caught most people 's attention were radical new forged karabiner designs from DMM and HB .
Idiom: forty winks (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ He gave me a couple of pills the size of tennis balls and told me to get my head down . It 's a wizard scheme , if you ask me . I 'm supposed to be resting , but after I 'd had forty winks , I felt a lot better , so I toddled over here . Just on the off - chance , you might say.’ Cassie smiled at him and stroked his forehead .
Idiom: fit the bill (used idiomatically: yes)
And I would guess that in this ‘ whirlwind’ , his views have been pretty much ignored . You complain that your marriage is n't a partnership , yet when you are not tearing a strip off him ( as mothers tend to do to sons ) or winding him up ( as mates do ) you are treating him like a no - talent support act . A partner is an ally or a companion and you do n't seem to fit the bill . Your husband probably senses that you do n't admire or respect him and he obviously does n't trust you , which is why he pulled the drawbridge up a long time ago . So if a partnership is what you 're looking for , you 've got some serious bridge - building to do .
Idiom: get to grips with (used idiomatically: yes)
We have got this far and ignored a lot of work regarding issues of land rent and of the nature of capital 's relation with land as part of a general accumulation process . And so we will continue . It is not that these issues are being dismissed in terms of their general abstract importance as a way of getting to grips with capitalism as a system . Rather , they are not particularly useful in terms of understanding located historical process . This is partly a matter of the distinction between ways of understanding the abstract character of a system and actual history already identified in a quotation from Gramsci .
Idiom: over the hill (used idiomatically: yes)
Well , they would , would n't they . Party of the week had to be the one which was held this week to launch NEW ORDER manager ROB GRETTON 's latest business venture . No , it is n't a home for fat , elderly over - the - hill musos , but a record label called simply robsrecords . Taking over the brothel - like SW1 Club , it was Manc yobboes night out as half of the Hacienda descended on London . Taking part in chilling out were NEW ORDER , minus BARNEY who was still confined to quarters agonising over album lyrics , CABARET VOLTAIRE , PETE WYLIE ( what was that about the class of ' 82 ? ) ,
Idiom: laughing stock (used idiomatically: yes)
The plot thickened as Malcolm Ferris , from the UK Pool Federation , a rival of Carter 's Q-Sport organisation , added : ‘ Carter sent the shop woman to me to get paid . I 've never even spoken to the man . This bloke will make pool a laughing stock . ’ But Carter , who has offered four top players £100,000 each in a bid to make pool 's profile rival that of snooker , said : ‘ I know there was a bit of bother . We did all the paperwork with her in the shop ; we obviously had crossed wires after that . ’
Idiom: on the nose (used idiomatically: yes)
So Santa Claus finished his journey though the air was so cold , so they say , dewdrops formed on his nose and they instantly froze and icicles hung round his sleigh . They were just about reaching exhaustion
Idiom: fall short (used idiomatically: yes)
Of the valley - floor fields , 17 hectares have been put back under rice as a cash crop , while four hectares each have been planted with maize and yucca ( a starchy root crop ) for their own consumption . Their biggest setback was the flooding brought by Hurricane Gilbert in 1988 . They had sublet another 40 hectares because their 52 hectares of valley and mountain holdings still fall well short of their needs . They put the new land under rice , financed with 40,000 lempiras ( $ 15,000 ) at 17-per - cent interest from a bank . The floods destroyed the crop completely and the debt is equivalent to four years ' worth of rice crop .
Idiom: to boot (used idiomatically: yes)
( And there 's worse to come — Ed ) . If you 've played some of the Speccy - ported Dizzy adventures , you may well have decided enough is un oeuf , and decided that eggs are best left in omelettes . If so you should make the eggception — it 's a good egg ( honest ) and a right good game to boot ! ( Old Robin Hoggy quote ! ) Ian ! 82 %
Idiom: in the works (used idiomatically: no)
Ralph Howell was the first politician to draw attention to the narrowness of the gap between the income of many low - wage earners when in work , and their benefit entitlement when they were without a job . ( See his Low Pay and Taxation , Low Pay Paper , no . 8 , p. 20 , LPU , 1976 . ) The ratio of a person 's net income when in work compared to their income on benefit is measured by what is called the ' replacement ratio ' . If a person 's replacement ratio is high , it means that their income from benefit is near to their net income from work . On the other hand , if the replacement ratio is low , this denotes that benefit income is considerably below that which a person would receive when in work .
Idiom: stake a claim (used idiomatically: yes)
What we are not told in this benign dispensation is that the modest freedoms that permit us to oscillate between radical free - marketeering and limited state intervention apply strictly to the rich countries . There has been no such softening in the rest of the world , which the west has now taken under its protective tutelage . The small , frightened freedoms that we enjoy are underpinned by a global system that requires that they be paid for by rigorous and intensifying dispossession of the poor of the earth , the destruction of the resource - base , the ousting of indigenous peoples who happen to occupy the last remaining deposits of ' raw materials ' to which the global market now stakes its superior claim . If western free - market fundamentalism has been faintly relaxed in the west , this is because it has been intensified in its export version . Whether in Ghana , the Philippines , Peru , Poland , India or Brazil , the same inflexible , totalising and unreasonable prescriptions are proffered by the experts of the IMF and the World Bank ; the aims of Gatt are to impose the same programmes —'macro - economic correctives ' , ' structural adjustment plans ' — a more intensive use of resources , more exploitation of the people , a competitive demolition of the very elements of life , in order that countries may ' survive ' the universal reign of the market .
Idiom: come of age (used idiomatically: no)
He took three audacious fours off an over from Hemmings , and the loss of Vengsarkar , flicking at one of Fraser 's worst deliveries , did nothing to sober him up . His fifty contained 11 fours , and he celebrated with three more . Sachin Tendulkar came in to a reception whose volume and pitch tended to confirm what Bishen Bedi had been saying about his sex appeal , and there was the arresting sight of a 41-year-old bowler taking on two batsmen whose combined age was 42 . After an hour had been lost to rain straight after tea , Tendulkar drove loosely at Lewis and lost his middle stump . The only man capable of stopping his flow of boundaries was Dickie Bird , who took the players off for bad light for quarter of an hour at 5.30 .
Idiom: go through the motions (used idiomatically: yes)
The band dropped ‘ Once More’ from the live set as early as possible , despite it being a firm favourite with fans . ‘ We do n't write songs for other people , we never have done , we never will do,’ says Gedge . ‘ To me,’ Once More‘sounds like a rock band going through the motions.’ The band have often been criticised for their imperious stance , especially in relation to early material and the decision to stop playing encores . It is upsetting for fans to learn that the creators of one of their favourite records do not like it themselves .
Idiom: get off the ground (used idiomatically: yes)
On the strength of this performance , however , there is nothing wrong in practice with Skinner 's revised disposition of voices , especially when sung with such clarity and attention to the text . Even so , I find the Christchurch trebles less robust here than in the choir 's previous Byrd discs , tending to remain within a limited dynamic range , even in the more laudatory Latin Motets . For example , Tui sunt coeli ( track 6 ) never quite gets off the ground and Hodie christus natus est ( track 10 ) is blessed with very little joy , its rhythmic energy sadly undermined by a rather uncommitted style of singing . Stephen Darlington 's pacing of each Mass movement is well judged , and would have been even more effective if the intervening mass prospers were better contrasted . The plainsong hymns Christie redemptor omnium ( track 11 ) and A solisortus cardine ( track 13 ) are superbly done as is the response , O magnum mysterium ( track 14 ) , featuring by far the best choral singing on this disc , sensitively phrased and unhurried .