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Idiom: in the saddle (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ I 'll try,’ she said , determined to hide her inner flutterings . They crossed the field at a leisurely walk , and as Lucy drew in deep breaths of the clear , crisp air she felt thankful for her jacket 's protection against the sharpness of the southerly breeze which whipped colour into her cheeks . By the time they had reached the third field she was beginning to feel more at ease in the saddle . The pleasure of the experience showed in the glow on her face , the sparkle in her eyes , and in the secret smile playing about the curve of her sweet and generous mouth . Nor were these signs of delight lost on Silas , who sent covert glances in her direction .
Idiom: many moons ago (used idiomatically: yes)
DISCOGRAPHY KILLING JOKE This one 's for Jason Grandcourt of Mackay , Australia , who , many moons ago , requested a Killing Joke listing . The arrival of the ‘ Extremities , Dirt And Various Repressed Emotions’ album seemed to provide an apt moment to compile the required discography and , thanks to help from readers John Elliot of Hawick and Mark from Sheffield along with Frank O'Donnell and his valiant cohorts at PolyGram , I 've managed to piece together what would seem to be a complete run - down . Unless you know better , that is !
Idiom: in the club (used idiomatically: yes)
pardon ? Nothing , sarky remark , on my own just Ha , there was this girl in the club last night and somebody shouted at her and she went what ? Oh dear I said to your dad Jesus Ladylike
Idiom: up to scratch (used idiomatically: yes)
All wiring should be in pvc - covered cable , and all outlets should be modern 13 amp and switched . Any installation more than 25 years old will need some renewal , as well as new sockets and a new consumer unit incorporating an earth - linkage trip safety device . The Electricity Board will tell you what you need to bring the installation up to scratch . For a new house , a certificate of acceptance by the Electricity Board should be insisted upon . Apparatus such as immersion heaters , boilers , electric cookers and so on require a separate supply with direct entry cables ( no plugs ) into fused sockets .
Idiom: out of the woods (used idiomatically: yes)
' That 's why there 's all this football hooliganism . ' ' Before the war it was only Argentina that had football hooligans , ' I said , ' poor people like that who had nothing to eat . ' We came out of Flakebridge Wood , down the road and into Dufton Gill Wood , following the beck that flowed over chocolate - brown sandstone . ' That 's the Pennine Way , ' said Tumbleweed , pointing up into the hills . ' Are you fit ? '
Idiom: do the right thing (used idiomatically: yes)
Anne 's a nice girl . I went out with Anne for a long time before she decided to marry Alfred , or he decided to marry her . So I suppose it 's what she wanted and she 's done the right thing . Anyway , they know each other pretty well , having been living together for two years now . They would n't have got married if she had n't been pregnant , so the baby has done something good .
Idiom: in the works (used idiomatically: yes)
Or so it seemed . The difficulties in which Althusser subsequently became enmeshed were the result of his ignoring Canguilhem 's warning that although the history of science takes science for its object , it is not itself a science , and therefore can not claim to be value - free ( or , in Marxist terms , non - ideological ) . As Gregory Elliott has recently emphasized , although Althusser always presented himself as the figure of the rigours of orthodoxy against the eclecticism of the existentialists , in his own work he was just as catholic , allying Marxism with non - Marxist philosophy , even if it was a history of science to which , he claimed , ' French philosophy owes its renaissance in the last thirty years ' . II BACHELARD AND THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE Against the Hegelian synthesis of all kinds of history within the same developmental schema , Bachelard argued that the history of science can not be assimilated into the progressive evolutionary form commonly ascribed to other kinds of human history , and nor can it be mapped on a one - to - one basis against the history of its age .
Idiom: take someone to task (used idiomatically: yes)
The other night when I got in , he told me to put my feet up , gave me a G and T and dished up the dinner he 'd slaved over . And when I told him , later , that I would n't mind a bit of the other , he said he had a headache!’ Not all the congratulatory letters were complimentary , but I 'm just as grateful to those who took me to task or argued with me or lectured me as I am to those who gave me a kind pat . Miss H. K. Todd , of Ramsgate , Kent said : ‘ We should be careful to keep sex in check’— clearly suggesting I should n't go over the top with this topic . She also remarks , rather acidly , that women these days are inclined to be arrogant when they 're in charge .
Idiom: lay an egg (used idiomatically: yes)
Many species are seasonally migratory and require safe intermediary staging places in which to rest and feed , on their long journeys . Cranes nest on the ground , building a mound of vegetation usually in the middle of a swamp . Most cranes lay two heavily marked eggs which hatch two days apart , though usually only one chick survives . Out of the breeding season and particularly on migration , cranes are vegetarians . The park has Sarus Cranes ( the largest of all ) from India , Common Cranes from Europe and Asia , and Grey - necked Crowned Cranes from East Africa .
Idiom: set eyes on (used idiomatically: yes)
He was a spare , grizzled man , who limped with the gout that made him ill - tempered , so unlike the dandified figure of Lord Dacre 's vague memory that he felt wholly disorientated in his presence . Not that this entire experience had not thrown him completely out of his stride ! It was near twenty years since he had been here , and he had never , to his knowledge , so much as set eyes on any member of the surviving household . ‘ If I said to Robert once , I said to him fifty times,’ his great - uncle was grumbling . ‘ Keep the boy under your eye’ , I told him .
Idiom: under your belt (used idiomatically: yes)
Progress is inevitably slower and more tiring and a bulky pack may make difficult terrain even more demanding , sometimes dangerously so . And remember that times given for stages in guidebooks and on mountain path signposts are estimates for typical , more lightly equipped walkers . Backpackers must make adjustments — quite easy to do with a few days ' walking under your belt , not so simple when your planning trips in your living room . Again , it pays to give yourself plenty of leeway . Once you 've decided on a route and how your going to tackle it , the last factor in the equation is when to go .
Idiom: on the rocks (used idiomatically: yes)
' I 'm fine . Did n't for a moment think you 'd want them out of your sight . And we could n't very well abandon the two young ladies on that barren rock there . ' ' It 's as well the islanders ca n't hear you . There 's fourteen hundred people in the Thira township and there 's a fair amount of tourist accommodation .
Idiom: on edge (used idiomatically: yes)
When he came back he had decided to cooperate . ' Ask me what you want to know . ' He perched on the edge of the couch once more and Wycliffe realised that he was trembling . ' Why did you attack your cousin ? ' ' We had a row . '
Idiom: sign of the times (used idiomatically: yes)
Once a man is sexually aroused and is quite it is quite difficult to stop is n't it ? It might be difficult but that 's the difference between well never mind . She added it 's the nature of the beast a sign of the times . Now I do n't know but I would imagine that Lord and Lady Fairburn should be drummed out of Parliament , well he should . I have never ever in my life read anything so ridiculous .
Idiom: do me a favour (used idiomatically: no)
When Marie saw Modigliani she said to him : ' For heaven 's sake do n't come tomorrow . I have n't invited you . Do me a favour and I 'll give you three francs instead of your fifty centimes [ which she gave him daily ] . ' Among the invited guests were Beatrice Hastings and the lover who replaced Modigliani , Alfredo Pina . The meal was peaceful , but when it was over the doors burst open and in surged a crowd of painters and models who had n't been invited .
Idiom: off the hook (used idiomatically: yes)
The problems arise through what I call ‘ rural conveyancing’ because years ago such conveyancing was n't done with the necessary attention to detail.’ Perhaps it would be better if the sport of boundary disputing was taken out of the hands of lawyers who are , by nature , adversarial . This seems to be the view of Lord Donaldson , that truly sagacious Master of the Rolls , who has just called for a new corps of paralegal ‘ civil justices’ to get people like me off the hook . More power to his noble elbow . Rural Britain is full of retired brigadiers and industrial captains , chaps who got where they were through diplomacy , cunning and an instinct for knocking heads together when the bugle blew .
Idiom: hit the headlines (used idiomatically: yes)
Of course , the fact that you discover that you have lived before at all is exciting in itself , particularly if you are able to remember details which can later be corroborated . To me , the fact that most lives are relatively uneventful is more convincing than if we were all able to give details of thrilling and unusual events or lives of fame and fortune . After all , at any one time in man 's history , there are far more ‘ ordinary’ people ( and I do not mean that in a derogatory sense ) than those who hit the headlines . In past - life regression will I progress from childhood to adulthood ? Not necessarily .
Idiom: under fire (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ The unsuitability of the jury system in cases of this kind is so apparent that the Government must look at the whole process,’ he said . The inquest , in Enniskillen , Co Fermanagh , heard how undercover soldiers fired more than 200 rounds at a hijacked car during a shoot - out in which Michael Gerard Harte , his brother Martin and their brother - in - law Brian Mullin , all from Six Mile Cross near Omagh , died . No warning was given by the soldiers because they believed their comrades ' lives were in danger and they were under fire from the hijacked car , the hearing had been told . Lawyers for the dead men contended no shots had been fired by the three and said the soldiers had dispensed a form of summary justice in the incident at Drumnakilly Road near Omagh , Co Tyrone , nearly five years ago . The hearing ended last night with the jury members saying they were not sure who fired the first shots because they found the evidence was inconclusive .
Idiom: on board (used idiomatically: yes)
What the remit conspicuously ignores is the possibility that a change , as radical as the intended extension of industrial democracy , but in the essential character of trade unions might also be a need if they were to play the new part written for them . The new wine might need new bottles . So , for the remit 's specification of industrial democracy , the rationale has to be this : that officials or , for that matter , ordinary members of the union , elected or deputed to represent it on a board of directors , would be accountable to the membership which would replace them if it judged their performance to be unsatisfactory . But unsatisfactory in what respect : as representatives of a body established to negotiate on behalf of employees with management acting on behalf of owners ; or as representatives of the union but charged , along with representatives of the owners , with the corporate responsibility for the performance of the enterprise ? The two kinds of responsibility do not coincide .
Idiom: left and right (used idiomatically: yes)
He is a far more controlled fighter and his stamina can not be questioned for he had never gone beyond 10 rounds in his previous 36 fights . Piper , fighting behind a stiff left jab and a MENSA rating of 153 , backed Benn up in the first two rounds , with hard short rights . But Benn took the fight to the Welshman in rounds three to six , brilliantly switching tactics and working to the body with lacerating left and right hooks . Brave Piper took the seventh round on my card , while drawing three others , and impressed English judge Mickey Vann to make him a round up going into the climatic 11th , which made a joke of Piper 's manager Frank Warren having objected to Vann as a judge . But in that 11th , Benn was the Dark Destroyer of old , first knocking Piper down for a count of eight with three big rights and a sweet left hook and then punching him all round the ring — blood spurting from Piper 's mouth with every blow — until referee Larry O'Connell mercifully stopped it .
Idiom: beyond the pale (used idiomatically: yes)
While O'Neill and his supporters represented that visit as the Republic s de facto recognition that the North did exist as a separate entity and that doing necessary economic business with the North meant the Republic attenuating its claims to the territory of Ulster , the conservative Protestants saw it as an horrendous betrayal of the history and sacrifice of Ulster Protestants . As a betrayal , it had , for the political sphere , the same symbolic quality as leaders of the Protestant churches welcoming the Pope . Opening Catholic schools was bad enough but consorting with the head of the Dublin government was entirely beyond the pale for loyalists . Symbols were again at issue in the controversy in 1966 over the name for the new bridge over the Lagan in Belfast . The city council planned to call it the ‘ Queen Elizabeth Bridge’ but the more assertive Protestants wanted a memorial to Lord Carson .
Idiom: go for the jugular (used idiomatically: yes)
The Government flies these kites of disinformation then people feel grateful when they do n't happen . The Chancellor has shifted a few factors around , that 's all . Brilliant Brown goes for the jugular By David Seymour ANYONE who watched Gordon Brown launch into the Chancellor yesterday will have asked the question : why on earth is n't he leader of the Labour Party ?
Idiom: slip through the net (used idiomatically: yes)
There are presently about 300 CIMAH sites . However , many potentially hazardous chemical installations are not covered by such regulations . Clearly , a plant which stores 1 tonne less than is required for notification slips through the net , while large numbers of handling sites ( warehouses , for instance ) are not covered . The regulations have obvious implications for G1S work , as illustrated below . In Halton Borough , Cheshire , for instance , there are 13 notifiable installations , with over 20 000 people living within the defined ‘ consultation zones’(Petts 1988 ) .
Idiom: have no truck with (used idiomatically: yes)
DAVID MELLOR has apparently promised to tackle ‘ elitism in the arts’ . You can understand why . He who goes to work wearing a Chelsea football kit under his suit and later makes love in the team socks while quoting Hamlet clearly has no truck with cultural snobbishness . Further evidence of the Heritage Secretary 's right - on attitude can be seen from his attendance at Glyndebourne . ‘ Daahling , it 's David , I 'm calling you from behind a tree,’ he cooed into his ministerial mobile , refusing to be daunted by the haughty stares of the opera world .
Idiom: in bed with (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ A little bit of healthy lust,’ she said . ‘ What else d'you think ? If I end up in bed with Rory I 'll have a lovely time and then I 'll quit . Or maybe I wo n't ! What 's wrong with married women with a little on the side ?
Idiom: flash in the pan (used idiomatically: yes)
( Dammit , we 'll beat the anti - rail lobby yet , thought I. ) Lord Ross now lives near on the Central Wales Line , and is a frequent user . One of our Committee members , the Rev. Ray Arnold , gave a short address and dedication , saying that enterprises like this one can so easily be a flash in the pan , but this one has surmounted its problems so far and achieved much . We were particularly pleased that Lady More , our President , who had not been expected to speak , said a few words about her late husband 's interest in railways and congatulating us on our achievement . Tea
Idiom: in the clear (used idiomatically: yes)
THE home of cannibal killer Jeffrey Dahmer is being demolished out of respect for his 15 victims . Flowers will be planted on the site , in Milwaukee . Marley 's widow in the clear THE widow of Bob Marley was cleared yesterday of defrauding the reggae star 's estate . Lawyer David Steinberg and accountant Marvin Zolt were found guilty and ordered to pay £ 1.5 million to the estate in a New York court .
Idiom: pull strings (used idiomatically: yes)
John told her that Mick , who had finished his examinations for Higher School Certificate , had been called up for the Royal Air Force . ‘ He says it 's because he volunteered when he was too young and now he 's been pestering them , but I 've been pestering all three services and got nowhere.’ ‘ It 's a pity you ca n't pull strings,’ Anne said . ‘ A fellow at work said the class system here is as bad as the caste system in India.’ ‘ Yes , and at the moment I 'm an Untouchable,’ said John .
Idiom: cock a snook (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ On my mother 's money?’ ‘ That 's my bit of luck — the trust fund thrown in as well as your extraordinary mama . Darling , sweet Constanza , let 's do it , let 's do it now , we are going to have a jolly life you and I , let 's cock a snook at the world and the mess it 's in.’ ‘ Yet if she insisted he would wait , he would wait for her , if he must . You presumptuous monkey , she told him , there 's nothing to wait for , I 'm not going to marry you .
Idiom: as a rule (used idiomatically: yes)
As a general rule , it 's simple to criticize , but difficult to produce alternative suggestions .
Idiom: go places (used idiomatically: yes)
Here she gives her predictions for the week ahead and answers your letters Sign of the week : Aries Now that lucky Jupiter is making such an exciting connection to your sign , you 'll start to feel you 're really going places . At present it is mainly Ariens born between March 21 and 26 who have the best of this good luck , but those of you born in April will experience a surge of good fortune from June 1993 onwards . Make the most of all opportunities because this planetary movement only occurs once every 12 years .
Idiom: on the level (used idiomatically: yes)
But it is our considered judgement that this knowledge did not have the reactive effect which the sensitive nature of the issue might suggest . On one level , it did not prevent some respondents expressing disparaging remarks about Catholics , nor dissuade them from giving opinions on controversial political issues . On a deeper level , however , as we shall see in later chapters , the identity category ‘ Catholic ’ is , for the majority of policemen and women , not an all-inclusive typification in which every Catholic is categorized alike . Most members of the RUC we encountered used an interpretative process which contains a set of typifications for distinguishing between ‘ good ’ and ‘ bad ’ Catholics , as for ‘ good ’ and ‘ bad ’ people generally . Once the field-worker was categorized as conforming to their typification of a ‘ good ’ Catholic ( the meaning of which we will outline elsewhere ) , then her religion was no longer as important as it appears at first sight , although the extent to which it had a residual effect is impossible to estimate .
Idiom: in light of (used idiomatically: yes)
This week we will be holding a debate here on the safety of sea transport , in light of the Erika disaster , and in the course of this year we will have to discuss our objectives in terms of the safety of air transport . But I would like to say that safety is a priority objective for the Commission . As I will say in the debate on the Erika disaster , we do not wait until there is a disaster to deal with the question of safety , but we work on it even when there are no such circumstances , which simply serve to demonstrate the urgency for an effective response to this type of problem .
Idiom: in full swing (used idiomatically: yes)
I did a drugs awareness sketch and got a small part in the school play which was Twelfth Night . We did other things like going to the theatre and doing improvisation . Now I am in year eleven and I have the main female role in a production we are doing next year , and rehearsals for next year 's school play are in full swing . Acting is n't a career choice for me . It 's just a hobby I really enjoy , journalism is the job I really want to do and you never know drama could come in handy one day !
Idiom: see stars (used idiomatically: yes)
Derek moved nearer and raised a ham - like fist . ' Push off ! ' said Jack , trying to sound hard . The fist came up and caught him on the side of the head and Jack went down , seeing little sparkling stars . There was a roaring in his ears as the pain slowly spread . ' You 've been warned , ' said Derek as he walked slowly away .
Idiom: cut corners (used idiomatically: yes)
A full cabin ( five 160 lb people and 200 lbs of baggage ) would represent a payload of 1000 lbs and leave 236 lbs for fuel , ie . 33 gallons . This would be enough for a safe 250 nm at 75 % power or 290 nm at 65 % . There are times when the Americans have a tendency to cut corners and push their aircraft too far . In some of their light and not - so - light aircraft seats are added in a manner guaranteed to tempt the irresponsible . Thus perfectly safe four - seaters are given two extra ones ‘ for children’ .
Idiom: in the black (used idiomatically: no)
Army spied on Martin Luther King A SON of Martin Luther King and a number of the assassinated civil rights leader 's associates yesterday described as ‘ frightening’ and ‘ sick’a newspaper report that the US army spied on King using informants , spy planes and elite troops . Andrew Young , a former UN ambassador and one of King 's leading aides in the black civil rights movement , called the report in Sunday 's Memphis Commercial Appeal on alleged army spying ‘ kind of sad’ . ‘ It just shows that the level of racial sickness was pretty deep in some circles,’ he said . The report , published two weeks before the 25th anniversary of King 's assassination in Memphis on 4 April , 1968 , said army units used informants to spy on the King family and other US black leaders starting in 1917 .
Idiom: out of the woods (used idiomatically: yes)
So it shoots the notes down into the body better , and the whole instrument resonates . It sounds a lot louder and a lot prettier . They were made out of koa wood and they were very beautiful , up - market instruments . He made some of them with solid necks for playing slack - key instead of slide — there were a number of different models . I 've got a couple of them .
Idiom: run someone ragged (used idiomatically: yes)
However , I managed a League Cup match in 1990 ( QPR 3–0 after 20 mins — we murdered them ) , and the debacle at Watford in the same competition last year ( 1–2 ) . I was astonished how fast the game has become since the back pass rule has changed . There seemed to be no time on the ball , and poor Dylan Kerr was run ragged down the right wing . The team played well BUT far too fancy . It was very entertaining going forward , and extremely frustrating waiting for them to score Goal - Of - The - Century !
Idiom: tell tales (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ oh,’ said Charles . ‘ You mean she and Micky don't … ’ ‘ Now you do n't want us telling tales out of school , do you?’ ‘ Oh , you naughty Charles Paris , you … ’ They seemed set to continue talking forever , but the auditorium lights began to dim , so they scuttered off , giggling , to find their seats .