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Idiom: in light of (used idiomatically: yes)
And , with a president who has sometimes openly questioned rigid ideological adherence to free trade , anything is possible , especially in the run - up to the 2012 presidential election . If trade frictions do boil over , policymakers may look back on today 's " currency wars " as a minor skirmish in a much larger battle . In light of America 's current difficulties , its new proposal for addressing the perennial problem of global imbalances should be seen as a constructive gesture . Rather than harping endlessly on China 's currency peg , which is only a small part of the problem , the US has asked for help where it counts : on the bottom line . True , today 's trade imbalances are partly a manifestation of broader long - term economic trends , such as Germany 's aging population , China 's weak social safety net , and legitimate concerns in the Middle ~ East over eventual loss of oil revenues .
Idiom: one of those things (used idiomatically: no)
That 's what you can do on your day off What practise five bars then No develop one of those things on yes A what , a what
Idiom: on board (used idiomatically: yes)
These dusk sets make it much harder for observers to see what is happening , and also make a successful backdown less likely . The kill rate is four times as high in the dark as during daylight . Not all vessels bother to try to release the trapped dolphins from the tuna nets , especially if there is no observer on board . Non-US vessels frequently make no attempt to save dolphins through the use of backdown . Such slaughter of millions of dolphins is euphemistically classified as an example of ‘ incidental catch ’ .
Idiom: new blood (used idiomatically: yes)
His secret ambition was for the Argentine ban to be lifted so he could get to England and avenge Pedro 's death by taking out the English and especially one poker - faced Guards Officer . Alejandro would n't help him . He was jealous of new blood , particularly when it was as blue as Angel 's , but Luke , who knew how hard it was to get established , had recognized Angel 's talent . Before Perdita arrived he and Angel had spent hours talking in the evenings trying to improve each other 's English and Spanish . Luke realized that , beneath his corroding bitterness and pyrotechnic bursts of Latin temperament , Angel was by nature merry , with a kind heart and an even greater sense of the ridiculous .
Idiom: get the picture (used idiomatically: yes)
Yes , yes , and the same yes ? So that 's good . So write it down , get a picture of it , it 's like a car salesman , what does he do when you go into a car showroom ? He sits you in it , would you like to sit inside ? Because once you sit inside , you 're quite right , you 're driving it are n't you .
Idiom: have a ball (used idiomatically: no)
Manager Ron Atkinson , who criticised his players after their 3-0 defeat at Coventry on Saturday , said : ‘ Going into the New Year in level second place is something we 'll settle for . ‘ I thought the result was never in any danger . We showed a lot of character and with the way we played.had the courage to go out and play and not just belt the ball up field . ’ Saunders , whose penalty winner was his first league goal in almost two months , revealed he had been put on the spot by colleague Ray Houghton . The £2.5 million striker said : ‘ Ray was on penalties but said he did n't fancy it .
Idiom: go to town (used idiomatically: yes)
But for Mr Pozsgay and his fellow thinkers , the end always justified the means . To strengthen his beliefs , Mr Pozsgay enrolled at Budapest 's Lenin Institute to study history and Marxism - Leninism . He was a final - year student there when he went down to the provincial town of Kecskemet to earn some pocket money by delivering lectures . The date was October 1956 and in Budapest anti - communist demonstrators and the Hungarian army were clashing with Soviet tanks . Mr Pozsgay did not rush back .
Idiom: have been around (used idiomatically: no)
The first was that the market was too young to have built up a proper record of likely default rates , especially during a recession . The second was that a large group of junk - bond investors — the savings and loan associations — had an extra leg - up into high - yield investment because of federal insurance of their source of cash , deposits . Junk bonds have been around , in one form or another , ever since the 1800s . From 1950 until 1970 , however , most American firms borrowed chiefly from banks . In 1970 there was only $ 7 billion - worth of high - yield bonds outstanding , most of them originally issued as top - notch debt but later downgraded by rating agencies and the market .
Idiom: in the can (used idiomatically: yes)
SEALING GAPS One of the quickest ways of sealing awkward gaps is to use an expanding foam filler . This comes in a pressurised can with a long nozzle , so the foam can be injected deep into the hole , where it expands to totally seal the gap . It is also ideal around new window or door frames , as it both seals the gaps and locks the frame very firmly in place . 1
Idiom: the grass is always greener (used idiomatically: yes)
Dates for the dairy , news and reviews and brand new colourful seed mixtures for you to try for free . And anyway … The grass is always greener when 700 people have n't tramped across your lawn , reflects Alan Titchmarsh . Over the fence Share your gardening views and stories on our readers ' letters page .
Idiom: neither here nor there (used idiomatically: yes)
Bearing in mind too that as a non - taxpayer you can open an account in just your name and so enable all the interest to be declared gross . do you ? Well it 's neither here nor there but I mean the thing is that we do n't as it is we 're not losing anything because you 're getting yours , half of it 's coming back as , as gross interest . I 'm tired . You 're tired ?
Idiom: on the stump (used idiomatically: yes)
They 're good to watch something like this . Even might be blocking them . Tough rule , to bowl to the er new batsman Mahammama , that 's his first delivery and he stands rather quickly at that one down on the leg stump , runs away off the pad , there 's a shout , I think more of anguish from Tufnell than er conviction . Well all the Sri Lankan batsmen seem pretty good at adopting the tactic of sticking the pad down at the back follow somewhere after it . Oh they loved that , yes and er , that one 's played with a bat , to off and there 's no run .
Idiom: take someone to task (used idiomatically: yes)
As a result Zambians have to make do with ' the left - overs of the book world , rather than its riches ' . Although half the country 's population is under 20 the state of book - shops suggested ' were are all over 90 and have lost our eyesight and are unable to read seriously ' added the president . It is not the first time he has taken his countrymen and women to task for what he considers their cultural failings . A decade ago , Kung Fu martial arts films were banned by Zambian cinemas after Kaunda attacked them for encouraging violence amongst youths . Recently such films have made a comeback in the form of Ninja movies , based on the exploits of Japanese martial arts experts .
Idiom: on and off (used idiomatically: yes)
so they merge as as sort of one solid feed Yeah . all da evening but then like last night see if I know that she 's been chomping on and off all night she 'll go for four or five hours . Mm . Or five or six hours
Idiom: behind the scenes (used idiomatically: yes)
27th June 1993 Morning Prayer at 11 am A few weeks ago , I read a magazine article about what happened behind the scenes on one of television 's popular programmes , ‘ Jim'll fix it’ . A woman had an old camera film , probably forty years old , and she wanted to know what was on it . So Jimmy Saville , with the help of his team on the programme , arranged for it to be developed by experts .
Idiom: hot and heavy (used idiomatically: yes)
If it smouldered quickly but did not burst into flame , the temperature was judged to be right — an archaic method that worked . Dad used to get his hazel twigs from a forester at Winterslow who knew exactly when they should be cut . Sledgehammers were usually wielded by the apprentice ; it was hot and heavy work . I remember one lad , Nobby Clark , who could not stand the pace . Both he and another old St. Martin 's boy , Spud Hayter , started at Farr 's the same week , Spud in the Carpenter 's shop .
Idiom: bear fruit (used idiomatically: yes)
By the closing years of the war the pacific complement of all this military collectivism was the preparation for social reconstruction with the onset of peace , carried out by the state and pursued with the assistance of its own investigative committees . Once lodged in the realm of ' common sense ' and sustained by ' practical'measures , state collectivism looked less and less like contestable belief , and became increasingly the broad starting point for argument , rather than its disputed conclusion . But plans for post - war reconstruction were to bear only limited fruit . Although the promise of a ' land fit for heroes to live in ' secured a victory for Lloyd George and his coalition government in 1918 , it was soon to find its promises increasingly hard to fulfil as the post - war boom petered out and Britain moved into the years of the Slump . Even before the ' Geddes axe ' cut a swathe through the ambitious post - war housing programme and halted the further extension of welfare provision in such areas as education , a certain faltering in the reconstructivist drive was evident .
Idiom: on the fiddle (used idiomatically: no)
The extent and variety of these activities are astonishing , but while almost everyone is aware of them , and although the majority of us fiddle in one way or another , fiddling is generally considered a trivial activity without serious implications . Mars ' book challenges this view , and we will include two extracts from it . The following extract is part of an examination of how management have periodic ' purges ' on their workforce in an attempt to control and crack down on fiddling . Reading 6 When workers think a periodic purge is imminent , everyone feels equally threatened .
Idiom: in the final analysis (used idiomatically: yes)
COMPUADD TO CLOSE ALL 110 STORES AND FIRE OVER 600 CompuAdd Computer Corp , the Austin , Texas personal computer manufacturer and retailer , is taking the drastic step of closing all 110 of its stores at the cost of over 600 jobs . ' In the final analysis , we realised that our core competency is direct marketing , ' the company explained . Retail sales accounted for about 30 % of privately - held CompuAdd 's $ 524.4 m turnover last year , but lost money ; sales per store averaged about $ 1.4 m , against $ 36 m per store generated by CompUSA Inc. Turnover this year is expected to fall by 43 % compared with 1992 , to between $ 300 m and $ 350 m .
Idiom: on the game (used idiomatically: yes)
Rhyl ( from ) : Lichfield , O'Neill , Rob Jones , Espley , Griffiths , Steve Jones , Adrian Jones , Lacey , Scott Taylor , Norman , Marriott , Kerr , Cooke , Lee . Gresford : Taylor , Crowe , Wilson , Dowling , P Jones , Mason , Roberts , Shaun Jones , Harrop , Gittens , Hughes ; subs : Whettam , Stokes . The third round tie will be the first of the Daily Post 's new Welsh Match of the Day series , focussing on the top game in North and Mid Wales every weekend . See Monday 's edition for top coverage with pictures from Belle Vue . Gun police kill raider
Idiom: water under the bridge (used idiomatically: yes)
If it was a front , it was designed precisely to block any such proof , with nominees and cut - outs unto the seventh generation . But I 'm not really concerned with your Americans of ten years ago . They 're water under the bridge , and if it was murky water … ’ He shrugged . ‘ I 'm only interested if any aspect of Anglam still lives on.’
Idiom: born and bred (used idiomatically: yes)
He has done that . The vote of 11.5 million is back to its 1979 level . He set himself to heal the rifts in the party , and apparently succeeded , not only because Labour politicians are hungry for office but also because of his position of centrality , born and bred in the Labour movement . The historian G M Young once asked an ancient Tory why the party had distrusted Disraeli for so long . The reply was : ‘ His early radicalism.’
Idiom: blood and guts (used idiomatically: yes)
By Tony Kell Torquay 2 , Yeovil 5 . GIANT - KILLERS Yeovil became the most successful non - League club in FA Cup history in this blood and guts seven - goal thriller . They were 4–0 up with seven minutes left when the game boiled over with two sendings off , three more goals and the referee escorted from the pitch by police and security guards . Three second - half goals from Paul Batty — including two hotly disputed penalties — did the damage as Torquay were swamped under a tide of pride and effort .
Idiom: by heart (used idiomatically: yes)
There was no further edition between 1709 and 1799 . John Wesley , however , greatly admired Herbert and adapted a number of his poems , usually for the worse , as hymns . In the nineteenth century Herbert 's reputation was revived by Coleridge in Britain and by Emerson in America ; Ruskin , whose influence on the British reading public was enormous , learned most of The Temple by heart . ‘ The code of feeling and law written into these verses’ , he wrote in his memoirs , Praeterita , in 1885 , Keble , however , whose own verses were often compared in his lifetime with those of Herbert , spoke of ‘ his conceits , which to most readers appear chilling and repellent’ .
Idiom: in the clear (used idiomatically: yes)
Michael Hughes had an excellent chance in the second half’ . I 'll say in terms of excellence they come no finer . A good run and cross from Michael O'Neill left Hughes in the clear with not even the goalkeeper to beat but somehow the little winger managed to put the ball wide of the target . A goal at that stage , midway through the second half would certainly have ended all the arguments , but Dowie 's opener was enough to be going on with . The big Southampton striker does n't score enough for his country ; this was only his second for Northern Ireland — but it was Hughes tried a shot off the edge of the box , the ball cannoned off a Lithuanian defender and into the path of Dowie who rifled an unstoppable drive past Martin Kenas from 14 yards .
Idiom: put a foot wrong (used idiomatically: yes)
They will not have worries over money , housing and difficulties with an ex - partner over the children . Besides , Anne is recognised as the most level - headed of the Queen 's children . She very rarely puts a foot wrong — and she is not likely to have made the same mistake twice . Pining for the taste of tradition Isla Whitcroft
Idiom: slip of the pen (used idiomatically: yes)
Franz Dornseiff — a German scholar who proved his courage and independence in difficult times — tried hard to persuade us that it was in fact authentic Greek poetry of the sixth century B.C. He also tried to show that a long description of the Jews attributed by Photius to Hecataeus of Miletus was really composed by this late sixth - century writer , and not ( as is generally admitted ) by the younger Hecataeus of Abdera who lived after Alexander . In both cases Dornseiff failed to convince . These texts attributed to Phocylides and to Hecataeus of Miletus are at least two centuries later — with the difference that " Phocylides " covers a forgery , whereas " Hecataeus of Miletus " is a wrong attribution , little more than a slip of the pen . Nothing so far has disproved the contention that the classical Greeks did not even know the name of the Jews . In short , as far as we know , the Greeks lived happily in their classical age without recognizing the existence of the Jews .
Idiom: on the ball (used idiomatically: yes)
This club wants youngsters to choose what we regard as a special game.’ The organisers of Young England RC are printing 500,000 application forms to be issued to schools and rugby clubs . TWICKERS IN A TWIST WILL Carling is flat out , but the young mixed pack is very much on the ball . Picture : ARNOLD SLATER DION DOWN BUT NOT OUT
Idiom: out of the box (used idiomatically: yes)
A reproduction of the famous 1886 Sarony portrait of Oscar Wilde in New York had fuck you anytime , Denny written across it . A commercially - produced greetings card , with a colour photograph of a handsome and well - muscled man blindfolded and tied to a pillar , had clumsily printed across it : You made me love you . The photograph that Boy looked at most often and which he sometimes even left out of the box and kept on the floor beside his bed as he slept was one that looked like a photograph of Boy himself . It had the same dark hair , the same white skin and the same extraordinarily inviting eyes . But the face was framed by the stiff collar and strange beribboned cap that the Foot Regiment of the Scots Guards wore in 1915 .
Idiom: make a move (used idiomatically: yes)
They were animals . Malc was behind me with a speaker on each shoulder . ' Do n't make any sudden moves , girl , just back out slowly . ' The words died on his lips as an enormous red - faced committee man appeared and blocked the door . ' Are you the comic ? ' he asked Malc .
Idiom: game on (used idiomatically: yes)
The spin - offs in written work are considerable . Each match could be reported , headlines written for newspaper sports pages , records kept of results and goal scores , league tables compiled and updated after each set of matches . Most of the games on the market would be more popular with boys , e.g. football , or science fiction adventure , and little effort has been made to provide games of more general interest . Other sports would make good computer programs , e.g. lawn tennis , show jumping , or team athletics , as well as simulations of jobs such as managing a pop group or running a boutique . A game that would challenge both boys and girls is organising a household budget .
Idiom: rough and tumble (used idiomatically: yes)
Most people think that pigs are dirty and ignorant , but I had many happy times with them . They let me look after and feed two piglets when I was a little girl and they were really friendly and affectionate . I used to play with them for hours on end and they tore a big hole in the back of my coat during one rough and tumble . I did n't give them names , which was just as well because they both had to go to be killed . Later on a neighbour sold us a reckling — that 's the runt of the litter , too small to be really valuable — and I did name him .
Idiom: in the long run (used idiomatically: yes)
NEW ~ YORK – One of the most important men you probably never heard of died last Friday . Immersed in a bustle of events that no one will remember tomorrow , we tend to pay less attention to people who take on the issues of eternity – philosophers , moralists , sages who try to turn our minds to higher things . Yet , in the long run , it is the latter who matter most , and their importance persists when other preoccupations turn out to be transitory . Such men and women change the world around them , even if others do not see it until much later . Leszek Kolakowski was one of these people .
Idiom: over your head (used idiomatically: no)
When J. came back from his course , we simply carried on from where we had left off . It still niggled me a bit that he could return to a centrally heated and solidly built barrack block , while the girls shivered in their huts . Sheila was in complete agreement with me on this subject , and the only disadvantage we could see to living in a barracks was having men in heavy boots walking about over your head . In the block where the RAF ground staff were housed , a similar problem did surface , not to do with boots but with Matthew 's flute . The armourers all slept in a long room on the first floor , with J. in a small room to himself at the end , and it so happened that Matthew occupied the corresponding small room immediately underneath on the ground floor .
Idiom: nothing doing (used idiomatically: yes)
You know mother'd used to come back so thrilled with all these slides they 'd had and they 'd had the local doctor as well . We had a course of first - aid so that we were pr prepared er for first- aid in the home you know , which is a good thing erm in our Guild . I always seem to , I think we , we were always at Stanford Hall that we must , it was a must that we have a good programme because if somebody comes and there 's nothing doing , they think well you know yo I , I , you see I suppose I 've got that orientated into Guild work but a friend of mine enticed me to go to er a club and erm it 's just simply for any age group , any sex male or female , but you must bereaved you know and erm she is a widow and I was widow , so I went but you see we , we sat round and you just , there was nothing organised and to me who had always been organised , I just felt so like a lost soul you know and er then one chappie put some records on and you cou and you could n't dance to them and I said oh , you know to me I thought wh you know but I do n't want to do it , I 've got enough to do but , I , I was straight away , I was looking for the organisation behind it you know . Yes . You mentioned Stanford Hall then and you 've been on courses at Stanford
Idiom: turn someone's head (used idiomatically: yes)
With a start of shame she realised that she 'd scarcely paid her sister a moment 's thought since entering the gardens . She could have walked past her a dozen times and never even noticed her , so intent had she been in enjoying her own experience , so wrapped up in the ambience that Rune had encouraged with his own participation of the pleasures around them . In penance she turned her head towards the open window , searching the small groups of people who ambled along the path for a familiar face . She did n't deserve such miracles , and neither , did it seem , would she be granted one . CHAPTER SEVEN
Idiom: in the works (used idiomatically: yes)
Here the stream with a stony bed , the rocky cliff on the left - hand side of the picture and above all the bridge itself , make the foundations for many of Green 's lakeland pack bridges . A further most important point was Wilson 's admiration for Claude 's ' Air ' . Green also made much of Claude 's ' Air ' and this became a paramount feature in the Ambleside painter 's work . Joseph Farington , a native of Lancashire , spent longer than most artists in the Lakes and returned at later dates to make further drawings . His topographical drawings are most exact and particularly in his sketches of villages and houses some sense of intimacy is achieved , although it is usually in a grand setting .
Idiom: behind bars (used idiomatically: yes)
Carlisle Crown Court was told that the fighter ace — who was shot down over Italy — was spotted by police while driving to see a sick friend . Judge Alistair Bell re - activated the suspended sentence and imposed another six - month term to run concurrently . He told Black : ‘ I pronounce this sentence with regret , but the only way to stop you driving is to put you behind bars.’ Black admitted driving while disqualified and without insurance . The RAF ace 's first ban dates back to 1971 when he was banned for driving with excess alcohol .
Idiom: take stock (used idiomatically: yes)
But while some senior Tories are urging a softening of the ‘ no compromise’ line on Scotland , others are urging the party to stand firm and endorse an approach which increased the party 's vote north of the border by 1.5 per cent . Ian Lang , the Scottish Secretary , said on Friday that it was now time to change ‘ the tone and mood of Scottish politics’ and added : ‘ I have always accepted that a referendum could be an appropriate mechanism for sounding out opinion , particularly on constitutional issues.’ But another senior Cabinet figure said the party had no need to take stock over policy on Scotland . ‘ No , we do not need to do that . We have done rather well in Scotland,’ he said .