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Idiom: in the final analysis (used idiomatically: no)
Enjoying this recreation , I could not banish the occasional thought that although work at B.P. was undeniably of vital importance , we were living a comparatively sheltered life , and that the real brunt of the war was being borne by the men on the battlefield . The contribution of Ultra to the conduct of the war both in terms of grand strategy and in individual operations was incalculable ; and its real rôle is still being assessed . But in the final analysis , things had not changed since Wellington had pointed to a British infantryman before Waterloo with the words ‘ It all depends on that article’ . CHAPTER 8 Going by railroad I do not consider as travelling at all ; it ( s merely ‘ being sent’ to a place , and Very little different from becoming a parcel .
Idiom: see red (used idiomatically: no)
Queens Park Rangers 4 , Everton 2 FURIOUS Howard Kendall stormed out of Loftus Road tight-lipped last night after a double sending-off which helped plunge his troubled side deeper into the relegation mire . England winger Andy Sinton bagged a glorious hat-trick but goalkeeper Neville Southall 's deliberate handball after 19 minutes saw him receive the first red card . Then Paul Rideout 's cynical backheel at Darren Peacock 's head on the stroke of half-time left the Merseysiders with only nine men in the second half . But Everton manager Kendall would say nothing about either incident , except to snap a cynical and curt ‘ Happy New Year ’ as he headed into the night .
Idiom: the icing on the cake (used idiomatically: yes)
Such a companion volume , though different in flavour from the rest , could provide the necessary framework on which the detailed volumes could be hung in context , and to which the reader could refer to maintain an overall perspective of the series . But why carp . Even without this icing on the cake , I suspect that the set would be the ideal ' book ' for a physicist to be cast away with on a desert island , provided paper and pencils were also supplied . It certainly relit an old flame of interest within me , and sent me off in two different directions at once . First , I looked again at an old favourite , Arthur Eddington 's The Nature of the Physical World ( Cambridge The detailed insights provided by Mehra and Rechenburg put this in a fresh perspective ( and Eddington still stands up , half a century later , as a superb writer who knew how to present his material ) .
Idiom: in light of (used idiomatically: yes)
Thus it is not the case that the spectator 's experience of a film is wholly determined by atomised viewing in the cinema — discussion afterwards with friends or groups , reviews and other contextual factors play their parts in the construction of meanings too . Racial and cultural difference are addressed in this context both as determinants in the production of meanings and as a means of putting the concerns of White Western feminist film criticism into perspective . These concerns must be recognised as specific , which does n't mean that semiotics or Lacanian film theory has no relevance outside the established framework of Anglo - American and European cinema , but rather that their legitimacy should not automatically be assumed or their dominance remain uncontested in the light of developments within feminism at large . For example , Brunsdon notes that ' Hollywood , as the world - dominant cinema , exports ideals of White femininity worldwide ' , yet feminist critics have rarely looked at this aspect of the Hollywood dream - machine in their copious critiques of it . ( Brunsdon 1986 , p. 55 ) In relation to the production of more differentiated cultural meanings , Jacqueline Bobo 's article in Female Spectators ( 1988 ) on Black women 's viewing of Spielberg 's The Color Purple offers a good example of where feminist film criticism might go next .
Idiom: second nature (used idiomatically: yes)
Thus the following account is a synthesis of interviews with those who took part and earlier published sources , all of which tend to differ slightly . The Stirling and Mayne groups left Jalo piled on top of the seven trucks of Gus Holliman 's patrol at dawn on 8 December . His men were all Rhodesians , tough , self - reliant and taciturn men to whom the open - air life was second nature . The navigator was a young sergeant named Mike Sadler who had emigrated to Rhodesia before the war and who was arguably the best at finding his way around the Libyan desert . He later joined the SAS , serving with them until the end of the war .
Idiom: hold the line (used idiomatically: yes)
In other words , long - term interest rates were already beginning to fall . However , in the face of market expectations , the Bank took advantage of a money market shortage on 5 March to buy bills at a rate of discount of 11.75 per cent , 0.5 per cent higher than the previous day 's dealings and about 1 per cent above what markets were anticipating . As the Financial Times headline said on 6 March , ' Bank imposes penal interest to hold line on base lending rate . ' On 9 March , however , the Bank lowered its dealing rate to 10.75 per cent and banks cut base rates to 10.5 per cent . Once again , the market was surprised .
Idiom: get a life (used idiomatically: no)
Similarly , reconsider the example introduced as ( 8) above:(25 ) The flag is white Since I have given no further information about other colours the flag may contain , which might indeed be highly relevant to the proceedings , I may be taken to implicate that the flag has no other colours and is thus wholly white . Or again suppose we overhear the following exchange:(26 ) A : How did Harry fare in court the other day ? B : Oh he got a fine If it later transpires that Harry got a life sentence too , then B ( if he knew this all along ) would certainly be guilty of misleading A , for he has failed to provide all the information that might reasonably be required in the situation . Quantity All these examples involve the first sub - maxim of Quantity , which appears to be the important one , in which the provision of full information is enjoined .
Idiom: mend fences (used idiomatically: yes)
Add a pencil , so you can mark the positions of screw holes , draw guide lines and so on . Hammers : Despite what we 've said about the superiority of screws for making secure fixings , a hammer is a tool no home should be without . You need one for simple jobs like driving picture pins , and for all sorts of other tasks like nailing down loose floorboards and mending fences , not to mention any woodwork you may be assembling . Choose a claw hammer , which can pull nails out as well as drive them . One with a metal shaft and a moulded rubber handgrip will stand up to more abuse than one with a wooden shaft .
Idiom: hit the road (used idiomatically: yes)
But although Ralph 's business is being hit by the dispute , he has a certain amount of sympathy for his French counterparts . He says that he can see understand their point of view . Lorry trailers which would have been hitting the road tomorrow now stand idle , Ralph wo n't send them out until the blockade is over . In the meantime , he 's back on the phone cheering up one of his stranded drivers with some friendly advice … He tells his driver he should have gone to Istanbul !
Idiom: play ball (used idiomatically: yes)
However , you must realise that you 'll have less stop and control ; play for the openings between greenside bunkers , and hit for the fat part of the green . Play for straight shots . On wet ground , play the ball back a bit in your stance to ensure catching the ball first , thus minimising the amount of moisture squeezed between the clubface and the ball at impact . COLD BALL A ball that is colder than the standard 75 ° F used in USGA tests will tend to lose distance potential .
Idiom: up in the air (used idiomatically: yes)
And red lead it and then used to be off the top of the jib . Well you , you got on the cranes down there , you go up fifty feet and then you had to go up another fifty feet to your top of your jib . So you can say you 're about one hundred and five feet up in the air . Needed a head for heights . And you never had no , no , no safety belts or nothing , just stand there and paint and stand on a piece of angle , if you only want the laugh out of it , cos the cranes down there are the swan lift cranes .
Idiom: easy on the eye (used idiomatically: yes)
They generally come in a range of beautiful colours and pleasing shapes . Most arc heavy and therefore only suitable for laying at ground - floor level or where floors are exceptionally strong . All of these treatments arc as hard on the feet as they are easy on the eye - but sometimes , as I have said , good appearances win over practical considerations If both price and hardness bother you , there are acceptable alternatives in vinyl , and cork coated with vinyl which can look very good too . Both vinyl — in sheet or tile form — and vinyl - coated cork are easy to maintain . PRACTICAL FLOORING
Idiom: do me a favour (used idiomatically: yes)
' If I have , I 'm keeping it to myself . ' ' Riddle 's nephew — Matthew Choak ? ' ' Do me a favour ! ' ' We may have to ask you again . ' ' No harm in asking . '
Idiom: grist to the mill (used idiomatically: yes)
Around it clustered the settlement of miners ' huts . Dead trees stuck up , together with blackened thorn hedges , dunghills , heaps of worthless coal . In the middle of his harrowing report he let slip a sentence , and we hear from that monster of objectivity inside every artist who sees everything as grist to the mill . ‘ Maris,’ he wrote , ‘ could make a wonderful picture of it.’ It was a hell of human vileness he had fallen into , a great raw wound crying out to be bandaged .
Idiom: over the top (used idiomatically: no)
Weber 's criticism of the Prussian bureaucracy , for example , was that it acted as an instrument for the preservation of the dominance of the Junker , or aristocratic , class ( Beetham , 1974 , p. 66 ) . This may become an especially acute problem for a newly installed revolutionary regime , for example the Soviet Union . Five years after the revolution Lenin complained that the Communist Party had good political control only over the top echelons of the vast bureaucracy : ‘ Down below , however , there are hundreds of thousands of old officials who came to us from the Tsar and from bourgeois society and who , sometimes consciously and sometimes unconsciously , work against us’(quoted in Merkl , 1977 , pp . 166–7 ) . This was clearly another example of prior loyalty to a class , but problems of loyalty may also afflict systems in which the change is between party governments , not regimes . When Nixon was forced to resign from the American presidency in 1974 , his administration was embarked on an attempt to improve the responsiveness of the American bureaucracy which , while not illegal , led to cries of outrage from his liberal enemies .
Idiom: on the nose (used idiomatically: yes)
Marques de Caceres , Rioja , 1991 The bodega of Marques de Caceres in Rioja , northern Spain , was founded by the Forner family in 1970 , and today is one of the country 's best known and most modern bodegas . Made from the Viura grape , this wine is pale in colour with a greenish tinge , and is fresh and fragrant on the nose . The palate has a delicate and subtle fruit . 5 ) Chablis , Domaine des Manants , Jean - Marc Brocard , 1991
Idiom: turn tail (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ Hope and fear may be read in every man 's face.’ False atrocity stories , misguidedly spread to encourage a spirit of resistance , and well - founded rumours that the French were waiting on the far side of the Channel to launch a second invasion added to the prevailing gloom and when , on what the diarist Horace Walpole described as ‘ Black Friday’ , people in London learned that the Jacobites were already at Derby something approaching panic swept the capital . But the panic soon subsided , helped by the news that the Scots had already turned tail . A contemporary cartoon by William Hogarth , now at the height of his reputation , showed the soldiers sent to Finchley being plied with drink and welcomed by grateful young women and a positive passion for raising funds to provide clothes and other comforts for the troops now swept the capital . The Scots were meanwhile retreating along the same route by which they had advanced , but to a very different reception .
Idiom: behind bars (used idiomatically: yes)
I was n't sure whether she was referring to regional unemployment figures or the fact that I claimed to have actually worked for once . ' Sound system OK ? ' I nodded to the twin tape - deck behind the bar as she counted out my change . I 'd rigged it for her a while back in part payment for temporary accommodation after the house I 'd lived in in Southwark had accidentally been sort of totally damaged . I 'd recorded some background music for her too and it did n't sound as if she 'd added to her collection .
Idiom: cross swords (used idiomatically: yes)
McKillen holds key for Antrim PAUL McKillen finds himself back centre stage this afternoon . Antrim step up their bid for a place in the Royal Liver League quarter - finals when they cross swords with Limerick at Parnell Park . Earlier this month the sides played a draw in Limerick , the big Ballycastle clubman stealing the show with a virtuoso display in the middle of the field . On current form he 's one of the top three midfielders in the country , a view endorsed by Antrim boss Jim Nelson .
Idiom: get stuck in (used idiomatically: yes)
I came out of the forces , he was only waiting for the time that I came out , for him to retire . He was very very tolerant with me and he brought me back into it without a lot of undue pressure and erm because transport was n't my life but I 'd sort of dedicated myself to it . I , I got stuck in , I used to bring stuff home at night to work on and er there were no exams to sit then , you just sort or did it by , you either could or you could n't do it . That 's on disk . W w w what did you actually do during the war?went away ?
Idiom: on the ball (used idiomatically: no)
A pair each end . That we were a joint suppliers of . With the seven two O five bearings on the ball screw , the lead screw , which were the seven stroke nines that we used to supply , single source , that 's where the big bulk of our business came from and er er a standard E P seven at the other end . A pair of seven two O fives . Mm .
Idiom: grasp at straws (used idiomatically: yes)
In New Zealand 's case , ' if ' rather than'when'is a better word to use when considering the possibility of a fall . Their three - year run of 17 Test wins equals the All Black record , and it takes no great clairvoyant skill to predict that this will be broken against Wales on 4 November and extended against Ireland a fortnight later . If it is true that some of them are not quite what they were — and even this grasped - at straw is no more than speculation — we may rest assured that the successor generation brought on tour to breathe down their necks will be as good if not better . ' We have too much competition within the side for there to be any complacency , ' Shelford said . This is the comment of an All Black thought to be under as much threat as any , in his case from the Auckland No . 8 Zinzan Brooke ( whose christian name , incidentally , is English not Maori ) .
Idiom: out of your mind (used idiomatically: yes)
What are you taking?’ Amazement and fury combined in a sudden rush and she stopped dead in her tracks , whirling round on him . ‘ Are you out of your mind?’ Her almond - shaped eyes wide with incredulity , she stared at him in horror . ‘ We 've been through all this already — I 've never taken drugs in my life!’
Idiom: stake a claim (used idiomatically: yes)
Have the slipped ? How would we have done against the Antipodean giants ? Perhaps the display asked more questions than it answered but it 's clear that the young stars are staking claims early . The response of the established , mature players remains to be seen . One of the stars of the game , lock Adri Geldenhuys , revealed his infuriating weakness two weeks later .
Idiom: on a roll (used idiomatically: no)
However , I think these guys did n't carry the weight with Goreng they should have done because they were Rebus 's associates . Rebus , I now suspect , was part of a plot by a faction of military intelligence to usurp credit for the suppression of FAKINTIL from the regulars . And these foreign spooks , these non - existents on the pay - rolls of any Western army , were part of that scheme . I wanted to get close to Goreng . Right then I thought that was the safest place to be .
Idiom: go with the flow (used idiomatically: yes)
Not stormbound but exhausted by our portaging efforts , we were now landbound ! Heather played the pacifist role , pointing out that despite all the litter and dead sheep it was quite a nice campsite . The next daylight high water would not be until midday tomorrow but Heather reasserted that again we 'd just have to go with the flow . Inspecting the waves at Rubha Dubh Tigharry . It is sometimes advantageous to cease continually pushing onwards ; by stopping one has time to relax and see what otherwise would have been missed , the colours of the machair , wild poppies , buttercups , clovers , yellow rattle , eyebrights and even common ragwort , a visit to Northton , the smell of peat fires , a silent deserted main street , an antiquated petrol pump , a seized up old tractor , overgrown gardens , derelict corrugated iron roofed buildings and one shop that was a shop no more , signs suggestive of better , more affluent times .
Idiom: to say the least (used idiomatically: yes)
Wilson was hard put to rebut all these complaints , admitting that his management of funds had been bad , though as a result of inexperience rather than dishonesty . " The root of the matter lay in our ignorance and lack of experience . We were ordinary seafaring men and founding and running a national union was , to say the least , a job for which we had had no training . I had no personal control over branch funds , but had to bear the brunt of the attack . It was always Havelock Wilson who was misapplying the funds .
Idiom: go the distance (used idiomatically: yes)
The MASSMoCA and Guggenheim boards will draft an agreement before the 31 July deadline , but the remaining $ 8 million probably will not materialise , especially with the Guggenheim 's own program suffering from inadequate funds . What does seem likely is that MASSMoCA 's commissioners will petition the governor to release funds incrementally to allow construction to begin . But since the State is unwilling to go the distance alone , rest assured his answer will be no . Moscow The dissidents come home
Idiom: in the club (used idiomatically: yes)
Yeah . No worries . The kids are allowed in the club . Yeah . Oh yeah .
Idiom: out of line (used idiomatically: yes)
The work of revisionist economic historians credits the tsarist economy in the years before the war with impressive growth . Recent estimates place Russia among the more rapidly growing economies of the early twentieth century . Moreover , in most respects the pattern of growth was not far out of line with that of early industrialization in western industrialized countries . Foreign investment continued to play a vital role in industry . Foreign capital accounted for half the new capital in industry between 1909 and 1913 , and on the eve of the war 47 per cent of the joint - stock capital in Russian industry was foreign owned .
Idiom: ten a penny (used idiomatically: yes)
Yeah , we went Oh , how much is it to get the pictures , I mean If you go at the six o'clock showing , Monday to Friday it 's two pound ten pence for you . Yeah ? That 's , that 's cheaper than the one , th the one up , about
Idiom: have a ball (used idiomatically: no)
But since the so - called Society of Young Publishers has failed to take up my challenge to revive the panto , we 'll have to think of some other way to cheer ourselves up . How about a VAT Party ? I have in mind a large ball , organised by and in aid of the Book Trade Benevolent Society ( since it failed to put on its annual Carol Service last month and did n't even bother to tell anyone ) , at which the whole book business could get together and celebrate the introduction of the new VAT regime as a way of warding off the post - Christmas blues . And how better to celebrate VAT than with a Vicars and Tarts Ball ? It should , if nothing else , provide The Bookseller with some nice material for its new design …
Idiom: hands down (used idiomatically: no)
She could feel the tip probing up the leg of her panties and she knew it should not be there . This was not just embarrassing , it was downright dangerous . She put her hand down to push him away and he grabbed it , squeezing it around the erect penis and forcing her to rub it up and down . As she felt the muscular ridges pulsing and throbbing she almost sobbed aloud from a mixture of fear , curiosity and excitement , but at least the thing was no longer between her legs . Then she felt it jerk violently and Edward shuddered and bit her neck as warm sticky fluid spurted into her hand .
Idiom: in the short run (used idiomatically: yes)
Citing the cases of Indonesia , Malaysia and Thailand , the report noted that the adoption of labour - intensive development and the provision of social services for the poor had actually reduced poverty in these countries . In parts of Latin America , however , high public - sector borrowing resulting in inflation had significantly increased poverty between 1981 and 1987 . While stressing that economic growth and helping the poor were not contradictory objectives , the report recognized that its strategy could entail " a trade - off , especially in the short run , between the interests of the poor and the non - poor " . The report noted that the industrialized countries could improve the lot of 1,100 million people living on an average per capita income equivalent to less than US$ 370 a year by increasing and targeting aid to countries committed to reducing poverty . A 10 per cent cut in defence spending could pay for a doubling of development assistance ( which stood at $ 51,000 million in 1988 ) , while increasing aid to the target level of 0.7 per cent of gross nation product ( GNP ) would raise assistance flows to $ 144,000 million by 2000 .
Idiom: play with fire (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ Because it 's good advice . On the tape , Beatrix says something I did n't pay much attention to when I first heard it . She tried to warn Maurice he was playing with fire . But he would n't listen . He did n't take her seriously .
Idiom: on the trot (used idiomatically: yes)
In the disappointment of defeat , he was wavering about trying again for the blue boat next year , because of academic work . But you suspect he knows he will . ‘ I looked at the walls in the Goldie boathouse and saw the names of all the crews and could n't see a cox with three wins on the trot . I wanted to be the one who did it,’ he said . ‘ I 'm not going to now but I might get two.’
Idiom: to boot (used idiomatically: yes)
Although the C - in - C had initially resisted the formation of the PFF , he gave the Commandant virtual carte blanche in the selection of airfields and staff ; the Command however , insisted that the Force operated the night it was formed , despite an adverse weather forecast . This did nothing to alleviate the poor opinion of the whole PFF concept held by senior officers inside and outside the Command . Bennett was considered an upstart , and a civilian upstart to boot , in spite of Point Cook and his Short Service Commission , not to mention his formidable flying experience and technical background . And , I hazard a guess , more logged flying time than the sum total of all the senior officers in the Command at the time . Nevertheless , he set about the seemingly hopeless task of making a bankrupt Command a going concern .