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Idiom: in my book (used idiomatically: yes)
You know the TV That 's why you suffer with constipation love , because you do n't eat no vegetables , you would n't need , laxatives , if you eat veg . In my herb book , what on the years ago that 's all people had for medicines was herbs Yeah there was n't any when I was and that 's why I feel medicine comes from today .
Idiom: catch fire (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ You talk like a hard businesswoman,’ he murmured , his eyes glinting , ‘ but with your hair tousled over your face , and in that sexy , rumpled little dress , you 're so damn desirable that all thoughts of business vanish from my mind , Caroline.’ ‘ Stop it , Roman … ’ ‘ When I kiss you , you catch fire,’ he teased huskily . ‘ When I touch you , I feel you tremble . And there 's nothing between us?’
Idiom: lose heart (used idiomatically: yes)
Nothing ! Your body is following the typical pattern for weight loss — and it 's probably the most discouraging thing about dieting . So many people give up because , after the elation of seeing the pounds fall off in the first few days , they lose heart when weight loss slows down . The reason is that when you reduce your calorie intake , the first thing the body burns off is its stores of water and glycogen , which maintain your glucose supply . These are quickly broken down , but it takes the body longer to shed fatty tissue , so weight loss slows down .
Idiom: behind closed doors (used idiomatically: no)
John Paul Jones ) play even more fantastically monikered instruments ( ‘ pintrumpet guitar’ , ‘ kuti - bass’ ) while BE tinkers on his tube organs and valve synths in a tonally - challenging 63 minutes of pop weirdery . Tight , metallic - funky backbeats provide solid grounding for swooping other - worldly guitar and sinister soundings synths ( ‘ Fractal Zoom’ ) , bonkers screech - guitar effects give a post - holocaust mambo feel to world music ( ‘ Wire Shock’ ) , ' 50s cocktail jazz gets an outer space - meets- Twin Peaks overhaul ( ‘ Pierre in Mist’ , ‘ Juju Space Jazz’ ) and we get a welcome return to the weird pop vibe of ‘ Before And After Science’ in the space nonsense of ‘ The Roil , The Choke’and ‘ Ali Click’ . He takes you round the block and back , does Eno , with few comforting reference points , although I sense echoes of early YMO and Yello lurking behind closed doors . Otherwise , he 's out there on his own , and I mean , out there , in another squelchy world . ALPHABET SWEEEEET !
Idiom: over the top (used idiomatically: yes)
Voice over The message is : Be careful . The rivers ' safety record is reckoned to be quite good and the authority wants tyo ensure that this wweeekend people don'ty do over the top in case they wind up going under . ( WES ADLIB)(ANNE ) Still to come on Central News , a cross channel challenge . Welcome back .
Idiom: in someone's pocket (used idiomatically: yes)
" I hope so . She 's a fine nurse , but stands no nonsense from anyone . You wo n't be able to wear your earrings any more ; those will have to stay in your pocket . " Topaz nodded and two days later set out with Sister Cecilia and Sister Anne , who were to be her escort . She had been given a plain black dress with a crisp white apron and a mob - cap .
Idiom: make a move (used idiomatically: no)
The law and re - entry programmes As this book goes to press ( April 1989 ) there is no law which requires nurses or health visitors formally to update their practice before re - entry . Significant moves have been made towards introducing such a requirement in the near future , however , and it would be prudent to take account of these when planning your return . UKCC guidelines of good practice Charged with the setting up of a central UK single professional register of nurses , midwives and health visitors , and mindful of its responsibilities for enhancing professional standards , the UKCC first began looking at the issue of mandatory refreshment for nurses and health visitors while still a shadow body in 1982 .
Idiom: break new ground (used idiomatically: yes)
By ALEXANDRA JACKSON IN Brazil they are wondering what all the fuss is about . Inflation there was 36 per cent for the month of September alone and is expected to break new ground this month by touching 40 per cent . So Britain 's September rise of 0.7 per cent , revealed yesterday , giving an annualised rate of 7.6 per cent , seems rather meagre . Nevertheless , it may be enough to keep the markets jittery about the country 's economic prospects .
Idiom: on the mend (used idiomatically: yes)
My mother . She ca n't be all that well . She 's on the mend . Oh good ! She told me off .
Idiom: lame duck (used idiomatically: yes)
Such a list is not exhaustive , and the major problem for a NIB would be to identify companies that fall in the above categories , which is by no means an easy task . Problems also arise over companies that receive funds but subsequently do not perform as expected . Will further funds be withdrawn and the company allowed to fail with loss of jobs , or will it be supported as a ‘ lame - duck ’ reintroducing many of the industrial problems of the UK of the 1970s ? THE BANK OF ENGLAND 8.0 INTRODUCTION
Idiom: all along (used idiomatically: yes)
It sought to provide for workers ' retirement by broad , diversified investment in the American economy , that is , in equities . In effect , it chose to pay for workers ' deferred consumption by staking a claim on America 's corporate profits . Once GM 's union agreed to the plan , a bandwagon rolled : within a year 8,000 new plans had been written , all along the same lines . This idea of the diversified , fully funded scheme ( that is , run to match assets with present and future pension liabilities ) has been applied most widely in America and Britain , where its principles have been written into law ; it has also spread into Japan but scarcely at all into Germany , where company pension reserves frequently remain invested in the firm 's own shares . The change has produced what Peter Drucker , in a 1976 book , ‘ The Unseen Revolution’ , called pension - fund socialism : the only successful form of socialism ever implemented .
Idiom: new blood (used idiomatically: yes)
Perhaps I 'm wrong to blame members , perhaps it 's the fault of the committee or the Chairman . Perhaps we need to involve members in er other ways . I feel that we need now new blood on the committee , and coupled with the fact that I 've done one one more year than the constitution says I should , I 'm not standing for reelection as Chairman . We must now look to the future . The Tories are in disarray .
Idiom: make or break (used idiomatically: yes)
The second book is a comparative French / British study of 1980 's communications policymaking and deregulation ; it concludes by stressing the similarities in French and British policy in these areas . Award Title : Making or breaking sex - segregation : young people and sex role in youth training Award Type : Research Grant ( Project )
Idiom: across the board (used idiomatically: yes)
Foreign reserves stand at 30 % of GDP and are the third highest in the world in absolute terms . The stock ~ market has increased twenty - fold . The middle class is buying foreign cars , vacationing abroad , and dining at sushi restaurants , and surveys show that life satisfaction has increased across the board . Russia ’s economic success is partly attributable to high oil and commodities prices . But oil is not the whole story .
Idiom: heart to heart (used idiomatically: yes)
He was brought off before the end of a rare defeat and the emotional scars were apparent for weeks after that . Reid admitted : ' That hurt him and it got to the stage where he was n't getting in there to take chances . We had a heart - to - heart about it . ' There 's no concern now . David is making chances every game .
Idiom: in the flesh (used idiomatically: yes)
Welcome to West Hollywood . God help us all . I 've yet to see a lovable moptop Inspiral Carpet in the flesh , but obviously they 're on the verge of making it here when they 're staying in the same hotel as Bruce Dickinson out of Iron Maiden . All they need to do is write a song about a hotel and , er , walk around with an armful of very long fish indeed , and America is theirs . Ca n't decide whether I 've imagined the eels or not , so I decide to sleep on the matter .
Idiom: mark time (used idiomatically: yes)
Both steps are natural therefore , either , providing too little stimulation or coercive pushing is inappropriate . Each pupil should be encouraged to strive beyond a status quo level but by encouragement to eventually identify personally interesting areas . Many pupils may object that they find this kind of culture to be alien and puzzling at first since this is a non - exam course there is opportunity for pupils to mark time without any serious results but to achieve personal development gradually or late on in the course at an individual pace . This process needs to be regularly discussed and recorded in consultation with resistant pupils so that they feel encouraged and not threatened where appropriate professional Mm ?
Idiom: one and the same (used idiomatically: yes)
What an object looks like to somebody is what , on looking at it , that person would take it to be , if he had no reason to think otherwise . If he has a reason to think otherwise then he says , not ‘ It is … ’ , but ‘ It looks … ’ . I now say : that to talk about perceived - as appearances , and to talk about what , on looking at things , listening to them , and so on , we would believe about them if we had no reason to think otherwise , are to talk about one and the same thing . In other words , to give , to the question , ‘ Why , on looking at the horizontal moon , would you believe it to be larger than the meridian moon if you had no reason to think otherwise?’ the answer , ‘ Because it appears larger’ , is , if it means ‘ Because I perceive it as larger’to give no answer at all . Only if it means ‘ Because it is presenting a larger appearance’ is it to give an answer , one which happens to be wrong .
Idiom: on the game (used idiomatically: no)
With all the waits as the lines came in , the pace slowed to nothing . The lines were coming out as written , but the play was dying a slow death . Michael Banks struggled on game for about an hour , but then snatched out his ear - piece and said , ' I 'm sorry , loves . It 's just not working , is it ? ' ' Persevere , ' said Wallas Ward .
Idiom: anything goes (used idiomatically: yes)
We said that non - standard forms are rarely more than a social irritant to some people , and that there are few situations where such forms could cause real communication problems . They include a small set such as : ‘ we was ; he ai n't done it ; she come here yesterday ; they never saw nobody ; he writes really quick ; theirselves etc.’ These examples gave the journalists the story for which they were looking , and they used them in headlines to show that our Report was against the teaching of grammar and ‘ correct’ English , and that we favoured a policy of ‘ anything goes’ . At a conference at Oxford in December 1989 , Professor Randolph Quirk , the famous linguist , attacked me fiercely for including material like this , which could be easily misrepresented by the press . After the furore which greeted our first Report I felt — perhaps pusillanimously — that we should excise this explanatory passage .
Idiom: on the rocks (used idiomatically: no)
Telepathic communication , for us still the domain of science fiction or fringe experimentation , may be part of a dolphin 's daily life , and may have been so for centuries . THE MYSTERIOUS SONG OF THE HUMPBACKS There have long been stories of mysterious sounds at sea : haunted eerie calls in the night , mermaids singing , sirens luring sailors on to the rocks . Although nineteenth century whalers discovered that many Of the strange calls at sea were the voices of whales , only recently have the songs Of cetaceans become familiar to the rest of the world . The mysterious and plaintive songs and calls of the humpback whales are now well known , after the efforts of Americans Roger and Katy Payne to record their haunting deep-sea melodies .
Idiom: every man for himself (used idiomatically: yes)
But er all of that was negated by the fact with the amount of fire and smoke that was on the platform , nobody could get to the lifeboats . And plus the fact that with the control room had been taken out nobody could sound the general evacuation alarms either , there was no alarms or anything or any warning for anybody on the platform either . And as you say at that stage it really was just a matter of erm every man for himself really . Aye well that 's it er I mean there was no , as I said there was no alarms for anybody else or anybody who was n't there really would n't have a much of an idea to how drastic it was and what was going on at the time . As I said you ca n't envisage or set up emergency procedures for anything as as drastic as what happened there that night .
Idiom: way to go (used idiomatically: yes)
Bishop John and his wife Jean : ‘ My wife,’ he says , ‘ is much more than an outboard motor on the back of the Bishop’ Canon Claude Rutter , Rural Link Officer for the diocese , farms his own glebe land . ‘ There 's a long way to go before we break down the ‘ them up at Salisbury attitude’ The Dean ( above ) : Hugh Dickinson spends a third of his time raising funds to save the spire . The Diocesan Secretary ( below ) : Colonel Christopher Ross keeps the administration ‘ well screwed down’
Idiom: rub shoulders (used idiomatically: yes)
This is the very downtown deli in which actress Meg Ryan turned When Harry Met Sally from just another romantic comedy into That Movie With The Faked Orgasm Scene In It . And this is just the latest episode in Kitchens Of Distinctions ' star trek across America . They 've rubbed shoulders with Spinal Tap on the West Coast , they 've ‘ schmoozed’ with David Cassidy , Brinsley Forde and Huey Lewis at a San Francisco garden party , they 've been driven around the Hollywood Hills in a convertible by an A&M rep who then let them stare at his Moray eels , smashed , for two hours . They even saw Judy Garland 's fence . ‘ And Zsa Zsa Gabor 's dog!’ adds drummer Dan .
Idiom: in the works (used idiomatically: yes)
' We can not have a situation where no more books are written , where no more scenarios of films are made , or more music is composed . It is also very important economically , not just for the creativity in itself . ' Although the period of protection for copyright may be extended to a uniform period , the extension of the term would not renew or re - establish copyright in any works where copyright may have expired . There may remain other discrepancies in the treatment of copyright works within the EC . The UK , for instance , now permits copyright works of art to be reproduced for the purposes of advertising their sale .
Idiom: doom and gloom (used idiomatically: yes)
We 've also in London , the London Region took , took tribunal for caretakers who were , who were not transferred from a school and we won that tribunal . It can be done , we need to move this up internationally because what we need to do is show the members that we can fight back . This gives us something that hangs , hangs the legislation on , this gives us a chink of sunshine in all the doom and gloom . C C T to some extend preceded the recession because it brought on members down to conditions that other people are now suffering . This was what a boost to when we won that thing at to the stewards and the members , it really was it was an uplift .
Idiom: to the letter (used idiomatically: yes)
George Hatfield , who runs the production turning course at Sydney Technical College in Australia , will again be setting the competition , and again we will be asking entrants to submit two pieces . The aim is to achieve two identical representations of George 's drawing ( available with entry forms ) , with the judges looking for consistency , finish and use of timber . Last year the judges debated at length how to mark entries that did not follow the drawings to the letter , but showed evidence of good economical production turning techniques . It was finally decided that the drawings must be the guide . The most obvious area of doubt was in the chucking marks , and in this area the drawings must again be followed .
Idiom: have a heart (used idiomatically: yes)
’ It 's about George . Bad news , I 'm afraid . He had a heart attack on Friday evening and died yesterday in hospital.’ For a moment I could n't speak . My mind was so wrapped round with skeins of my own distant past that I could n't immediately come to grips with the demands of the present .
Idiom: every nook and cranny (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ You must visualize the healing of all your body , every part of it . When you run your healing ball within yourself , you must roll it everywhere . Down each firm and leg , around your chest , stomach and in every nook and cranny.’ On that same day visit , a counsellor put it to me that my Agincourt style visualization with its obliterating flights of white arrows might perhaps be a little too aggressive . t needed to exert my authority over my cancer cells , but did I need to be quite so warlike ?
Idiom: down the road (used idiomatically: yes)
OnGO Office is the core element behind Uniplex 's client - server architecture , providing enterprise - wide network and mail communications , X500 routings and gateways , TCP / IP and open systems interconnect support and a set of object libraries . It is also the interface to Novell Inc NetWare , facsimile and telex . Office is the transport mechanism that down the road will enable Uniplex to break into mail - enabled process automation , the true definition of groupware . Before it gets to the groupware level Uniplex says it will have to license or acquire pieces of technology . Already it has a licence arrangement with object maven Hyperdesk Corp and apparently intends to use the Object Management Group 's Object Request Broker .
Idiom: make waves (used idiomatically: yes)
’ I 'm scarcely back from George Pittendrigh 's funeral.’ ’ Oh , it 's only just blown up . It 's still making waves . It seems that Portia Forbes took advantage of Tom Watt 's absence at the funeral to have a look through the Information Office files . She says the files she looked at were n't confidential and were freely available for consultation by any senior member of staff .
Idiom: by heart (used idiomatically: yes)
It 's been given away on computer disc in a wideselling magazine as well . Voice over With all that work they know the document off by heart . Male speaker We both came in one day and said we felt a bit odd after reading all that , we felt there were psychological jammers in the thing
Idiom: larger than life (used idiomatically: yes)
Without doubt , her reply shows just how unconcerned she is about her return to top - level racing and much of the credit for that must go to Pedrosa . Runners , coaches and athletics writers the world over have puzzled at the success of Mota and 38-year - old Pedrosa . The clichés have abounded ; Pedrosa , a larger - than - life character , has been cast in the role of tough guy , struggling to ensure that his Rosa is given a fair chance . He 's her minder , mentor , best friend and lover . She has been grateful to leave the arguing to him and has rewarded him with gold medal after gold medal .
Idiom: swim against the tide (used idiomatically: yes)
As chart 7 shows , plastics are especially expensive to sort . Companies , generally speaking , tend to produce relatively few kinds of waste — mainly paper , say , or mainly metal scrap — which makes recycling easier . In promoting recycling as the best answer to waste disposal , environmentalists are therefore swimming against the tides of the market . The main constraint on recycling is not the difficulty of persuading people to sort their waste : given encouragement , households and businesses seem surprisingly eager to do so . The problem is that there are not enough markets to absorb the waste that is available for recycling .
Idiom: for a song (used idiomatically: yes)
She had been constructed in Hampshire before the Second World War by craftsmen who had taken pride in their work , but fibreglass had made wooden boats redundant and Masquerade had been laid up and left to rot at a boatyard on the River Exe . I had found her when I was a Weapons Instructor at the Royal Marines ' Lympstone camp in Devon . I had bought her for a song , then spent a fortune restoring her and , when my term of service expired and I could afford to become the gypsy - sailor I had always wanted to be , I left the Marines and made Masquerade my new home . For a couple of years she and I had knocked around the Mediterranean , then I had sailed her across the Atlantic . That voyage had been the first leg of a planned circumnavigation , but those dreams had been brutally shattered when Masquerade was stolen from an anchorage in the Florida Keys .
Idiom: lie low (used idiomatically: yes)
Netherlands to recreate wetlands The Dutch government has begun an ambitious plan to return large areas of farmland to their natural state as forest , wetlands and lakes . The plan seeks in part to reverse centuries of reclamation of low - lying land for agriculture , which has been successful in increasing crop yields but has been accompanied by a deterioration in the natural environment . Pumping to keep reclaimed land dry has lowered water tables in some areas and the land is sinking as the soil compresses . Extensive use of agricultural chemicals has driven out many animal and plant species .
Idiom: head south (used idiomatically: yes)
Tampa area attractions include the Museum of Fine Arts and the Salvador Dali , both in St Petersburg Ybor Square , a restored Cuban marketplace where Cuban refugees still hand - roll cigars . An hour south , Sarasota features one of the finest museums in the South , the Ringling , with a world - renowned collection of Ruben works . Heading south along the coast are the highbrow resort towns of Naples , Fort Myers , and the more rustic barrier islands of Sanibel and Captiva . All offer golf , fishing , and water sports . Travel USA : Mizz Wilkes serves up manna in Savannah
Idiom: get the better of (used idiomatically: yes)
She would stay , safely in bed , cocooned in the fresh linen sheets scented with seshen , and then perhaps later she would explain , if the opportunity arose . It might not even be necessary . But then her pride and her curiosity had got the better of her again , and she remembered why she had agreed to the meeting in the first place . The thought of what might happen scared her , but it thrilled her too . Of course , nothing at all might happen .
Idiom: the icing on the cake (used idiomatically: yes)
He stopped at the first opportunity , and emerged with a lead of 45secs . Mass drove his heart out in an effort to make amends for what he regarded as his mistake but Baldi was 21secs ahead at the finish . He seemed to have clinched a seventh victory with his partner , Jean - Louis Schlesser , putting the icing on the cake of their shared world championship . Half an hour after the finish the stewards disqualified the Schlesser / Baldi Mercedes on the grounds that it had been given a tenth of a litre more than its 246-litre fuel allowance . Mass 's mistake had been overshadowed by the tiniest error by his rival 's pit crew .