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Idiom: fast and furious (used idiomatically: yes)
She 'd known exactly what she was getting into when she had applied for a job with the commodity brokers , McKenzie Dunton . It had been her overwhelming need for money —a great deal of money — which had drawn her to the London Metal Exchange . After some time spent as a trainee , she had become an authorised dealer on the male - dominated floor of the Ring , specialising in the fast and furious world of copper futures . However , on her promotion last year as an executive consultant Laura had decided to concentrate more on her work in the office — analysing financial trends , and advising her private clients on their investments in the futures market . There was no doubt that the rewards for someone in her profession were considerable .
Idiom: on ice (used idiomatically: yes)
David Anderson , of Darlington health authority , has confirmed a building company will be picked to build the unit by mid March . He hopes work can start on the unit in roughly four weeks time . THE Government last night moved to avert a threatened mass exodus of dentists from the NHS and put on ice plans to cut fees paid to them for dental work . But dentists in the NorthEast said the delay had only given the profession a short breathing space . Ministers have agreed to carry out a fundamental review of the way dentists are paid in order to avoid a repeat of the crisis .
Idiom: go straight (used idiomatically: yes)
And a high risk group , multiple tumours at diagnosis and a positive three month cystoscopy . The suggested protocols for these patients were as follows . The low risk category one patients would go straight onto annual check cystoscopy following the first three month check . The intermediate risk group would have a three monthly cystoscopy for a year and then go onto six monthly for a further year and then annual thereafter . And the high risk group would have three monthly check cystoscopies for two years and then go onto annual check cystoscopies .
Idiom: fight tooth and nail (used idiomatically: yes)
Women also tend to have a different , more consensual style of management , and often dislike playing by the corporate rules that are invariably laid down by men . Douglas Kinnaird , of PA Consultants and one of the UK 's top headhunters , makes the point that quite often women do n't realise how hard promotion is to get and that men have worked for it for months , if not years . ‘ If they want to get promoted they have got to fight tooth and nail . They have got to find out the rules and then fight by the rules.’ A failure to realise just how tough it is means such women are held back more by their own glass hat than any supposed glass ceiling .
Idiom: word of mouth (used idiomatically: yes)
The accompanying suggestion that we send round an additional sheet giving dates of events , at least within the area , has been taken up . Please do keep telling us of any complaints or suggestions you have either about the Journal or about the way the Society is being run . I am sure our editors will be pleased to include in future issues comments passed on either by word of mouth or in letters . For the present let me put it on record that the main hold - up has been with me , in setting up the Journal for printing . In a future issue we hope to explain exactly how it is produced .
Idiom: in broad daylight (used idiomatically: no)
His gaze was very hard , and there was an ominously grim violence in his voice . ‘ A status you clearly lack . So unless you come up with a bloody good reason why you 're assaulting Virginia in broad daylight in the middle of a London exhibition I strongly advise you to get the hell out of here . Now!’ CHAPTER EIGHT
Idiom: in the short run (used idiomatically: no)
Increasingly widespread use probably accentuated a chronic shortage of coin . In permitting the bishop of Châlons - sur - Marne to set up a mint in 864 , the king acknowledged difficulties in suppling the new currency . The cathedral clergy were to take the profits from the mint they ran , but in the short run they were evidently short of cash . They were just the sort of purchasers on whom peasants relied . ( It was no coincidence that the bishop 's request came in November . )
Idiom: hit the jackpot (used idiomatically: yes)
Caroline had disappeared but it had been shown that it was nothing to do with him . They 'd suspected him , but of course he had made sure that there was no evidence and anyway he had n't any motive . But they 'd had a thorough look through his life just to be sure and hit the jackpot entirely by chance . Damn her , she 'd deserved —‘That your young lady?’ asked Pete . ‘ Uh , well , she —’‘She 's a cracker .
Idiom: ring a bell (used idiomatically: no)
He wanted flat six : Sure enough there it was . Flat six : Tippy — submission my speciality . George rang the bell . ' Yeah , what ? ' George was startled .
Idiom: anything goes (used idiomatically: no)
Virtually all today 's desktop publishing programs allow you to set up style sheets so that the characteristics of the typography and , in Ventura 's case , the layout as well can all be pre - defined . This works even better when you pre - tag the text so that when the document is read into the page makeup program all the basic work has been done for you . In Ventura is it always worth having a completely blank style sheet — except for Body Text , that is — because if anything goes wrong and you need to recover the information you can simply change the style sheet to this blank one . It is also well worth using this style sheet as the starting point for any new ones . Many users modify existing style sheets but this can bring along huge amounts of excess styling information that you either do n't want or had forgotten was in there .
Idiom: one and the same (used idiomatically: yes)
would , for you can not but do otherwise . And yet you , lad , are a perfect candidate for the role of skipper , suborner , seducer and traducer of that reality . Reality is a virgin whose virtue we all want to believe in , and , at one and the same time , an old whore who we 've all had and had and had again , until our eyes and ears are like genitals that have been rubbed raw . We observe its regularities , its comings and goings through and in ourselves , yet we are unable to stand apart . At any rate you can not stand apart , I can not but do otherwise and that is why we belong together , d'ye see ?
Idiom: on the double (used idiomatically: no)
Mm , well they do look young do n't they ? . I had a baby there you see . I was recommended to go to this lady who 's Irish and then she 's gone back , , and I 've never , I mean , the examination was quick and painless he said , but just keep an eye on that double on there , erm , there 's a little tiny crack in it Mm . your age probably .
Idiom: up to speed (used idiomatically: no)
Almost as proof , Kinnaird and Marie Steele , lecturer in Strathclyde University 's department of human resources management and one of the four opening speakers acting as ‘ catalysts’ for the discussion , set the dismal scene : the unbelievably low number of female applicants for top jobs , the discontinuity between the high rate of female academic achievement in secondary , tertiary and professional education and career patterns , the patchiness of those career patterns in various sectors where they did break through . Anne Harper , until recently a senior executive with BP , heightened the feeling that there is a real and all - too - close - to - home problem when she compared her experience of working with the group 's local company boards in Scandinavia , where partly due to the existence of worker representatives the woman board member is not an unusual phenomenon , and in the machismo - oriented ‘ southern Mediterranean countries of Portugal , Spain and the Republic of Ireland’ where it is — and promptly included her experiences in Scotland with the latter . Alan Murdoch , personnel director of NCR , cited the problems which even this unusually enlightened engineering company had come up against in trying to tap this under - used management resource — an apparent lack of ambition that drives women into ‘ support’ roles , the fact that child - bearing age co - incides with that age - span when the potential top manager is just getting up to speed , the lack of female engineering - oriented managers from which to select . Not that that was the end of it — NCR had simply had to open up opportunities for people lower down the ladder to develop , backed up by formal systems of career planning , appraisal and psychometric testing to mine the required resource . It was for Lesley Bale to be the living proof that there was a way through .
Idiom: on the ball (used idiomatically: no)
Born and raised in Hill O'Beath , one of the unfashionable heartlands of Scottish Junior football , Baxter was wafer - thin and in the persona of ‘ Slim Jim’ , he rose to become one of the most elegant and arrogant players in the game . Slim Jim Baxter will always be cherished for his brilliant and belligerent performance against England at Wembley in 1967 . He acted out all the schoolboy fantasies , weaving his way past English defenders with consummate ease , beckoning them to take the ball with gestures of smug superiority , scoring now and again , and sitting on the ball when being brilliant became a bore . It was national absolution : they won the World Cup but we played football . Baxter encapsulated the ' 60s .
Idiom: play ball (used idiomatically: no)
‘ Satisfy - schmatisfy ? Do you seriously believe you can pick up with this tenth Gittel where you left off with Number One before ? What makes you think she 'll play ball?’ ‘ For a start , unlike the first one , she 's not likely to get her head turned by some man.’ ‘ No , I 'll grant you that .
Idiom: on a roll (used idiomatically: yes)
Pair of tweezers ; Safety pins ; Sticking plaster on a roll ; Antiseptic lotion and cream ; Antihistamine cream ;
Idiom: catch fire (used idiomatically: yes)
Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin launched his first airship in 1900 , and so began the age of the hydrogen - filled craft in which Germany led the world for two decades . In the aftermath of the First World War Germany was forbidden to rearm until restrictions were relaxed in 1926 and airship construction began again . In the meantime an airship had caught fire in the USA , ending the use there of the lethal explosive hydrogen as a lifting gas ; it was replaced by the safer helium . However Germany was short of helium and the major industrial producer — the USA , who was extracting it from natural gas — did n't want to supply it so soon after the war . Thus finding new and cheap ways of producing helium came to occupy the minds of two German chemists at the University of Berlin : Fritz Paneth and Kurt Peters .
Idiom: sticky fingers (used idiomatically: yes)
Homosexuality , which was invented in 1869 also from a Greek root ( homo , meaning ‘ same’ ) , was seen in the same light and its male variety was banned in 1885 . Pornography , prostitution and homosexuality continue to be seen as variations on a theme to this day , something we implicitly acknowledged when we adopted the word ‘ gay’ as our own . For , as Neil Bartlett points out , that nice little word was corrupted long before we got our sticky fingers on it . He quotes the New English Dictionary of 1897–1900 , a forerunner of the OED : Gay addicted to social pleasures and dissipations .
Idiom: in the works (used idiomatically: no)
Again , survey evidence was not always consistent . However , an important data set did give clear indications that , although not increasing the likelihood of long - term unemployment , temporary working was linked to recurrent unemployment . Both people entering unemployment as a result of losing a temporary job and people taking temporary jobs as a way out of unemployment seemed more likely to have taken a number of jobs , to have experienced a number of spells of unemployment , to have had less time in work and more time in unemployment than people becoming unemployed for other reasons , or managing to obtain a permanent job on leaving unemployment . Moreover , people entering unemployment because a temporary job had come to an end were more likely to leave unemployment via another temporary job . These last findings should not , however , be taken to suggest that temporary working is a cause of recurrent unemployment or of unstable employment patterns .
Idiom: small print (used idiomatically: yes)
This realization led to several white calico garments ; fulsome petticoats , frilled blouses and fancy nightdresses being the most obvious , all of them generous with material . Moira is convinced that ‘ at this stage there was no conscious effort to recreate the past in the styles — one thing just led to another — but there was in terms of the prints ; with old reference books proving far and away the best place to find ideas.’ By 1969 Laura was spending much of her time poring over old books — the endpapers of novels were a rich source of small prints as were old plates , teapots , and patchwork quilts , in fact anything that caught her eye in a variety of odd shops . And she had begun to form a unique library of prints she liked . One of the most popular motifs at the time the shop opened was of swans and lions , which came from an old , heraldic design ; another was a Persian print showing a fantastical dog in a jungle of giant thistles .
Idiom: few and far between (used idiomatically: yes)
Another anonymous donor regularly left a sugar bag full of food on the Burrows ' front verandah . Out of the bag would roll a large cabbage , a leg of mutton potatoes , Granny Smith apples and some " goodies " for the excited children . Toys were few and far between . The children improvised . Pieces of pine from apple cases became cricket bats , tennis rackets or hockey sticks and gave them endless hours of pleasure .
Idiom: in the dock (used idiomatically: yes)
4 ships in the port , from Germany , Russia , the Bahamas and Greece have been ordered not to sail until detectives have questioned every crew member . The woman has been identified as a 32 year old from the Bristol area , who 'd been missing since early on Friday , but detectives wo n't name her until her family have been told . There are no homes close to the area where the body was found , but workers in the docks area expect to be questioned by police . The body was found on the day that celebrations were held to mark the 200th anniversary of the opening of the Sharpness to Gloucester canal . And detectives have just confirmed the identity of the dead woman .
Idiom: push the envelope (used idiomatically: yes)
The gospels commend faith the size of a grain of mustard seed . Ella Burrows ' faith was giant size , and it was rewarded . She was closing the church door one evening after the service when an unknown benefactor pushed an envelope through the gap into her hand . On the outside was written " MONEY FOR SHOES " . Salvation Army officers did not receive a salary .
Idiom: on the ground (used idiomatically: yes)
As a confirmed anti-wilkoite I may agree with his sentiments on lack of flair , but that s not really the point is it ? He has not only tarnished his relationship with Leeds United Football Club ( the club that he owes everything to including his 2.75M price tag ) , he also shit on the manager and those players who are left at the club , who helped him win a championship medal . Batty certainly ca n't be excused on the grounds the manager did n't give him a ‘ fair crack of the whip ’ can he ? Come on all you personal friends of Batts out there ; is this report true ? Roger G
Idiom: on the button (used idiomatically: yes)
LEVEL 2 — THE SUPER ZONE Firstly , jump up and collect the shield , then go left , jump on the platform to your left and then the platform on your right , grab the weight , climb the right wall and throw the weight on the switch , jump / fly up onto the block on the wall , go left and cross the gap on the swing , fly up two platforms and run right , go under the guillotine , jump up the pipe and collect a weight , walk left and fall off the last platform , throw the weight on the switch , go left and use the fly to climb up the platform , take the weight and throw it on the switch above you . Go down , catch the swing and go up on the lift , go left and collect the shield , go right and up when you reach the right - hand wall , go left and fly up the pipe , go right and fall down the gap , then go left and collect the weight and throw it onto the button to your right , go up on the lift , right , up and left on the lift , fly up past the spikes and collect a weight , fall down and go right under the spikes , throw the weight on the button , go up on the lift , up , go left when you can and fall down to collect the weight . Go back to the lift and go up , carry the weight to the button and drop it on the button to start the swing , stand on the swing and fly up - right , collect the weight above you and throw it onto the button next to the swing , go back to where you grabbed the weight , go left , collect the weight , go right to the wall and fall down , throw the weight on the button , go up , left , up the pipe , collect the flower and go down the pipe . Go right across two platforms and catch the lift , go up on the lift and go left , take the weight and continue left , throw the weight onto the person , go left , up , up the pipe , take the weight , go right and throw it on the button , go up on the lift and go left , go up , take the weight , throw it on the person and fly up the pipe , go left , take the weight , go right and fall down the wall , go left , throw the weight on the button .
Idiom: break even (used idiomatically: yes)
I 'm going out but before I go I 'll tell you one thing . In all the years Francis and I were married I never asked him for a cent . I ran Sleet myself ; under my care it 's broken even … ’ ‘ You mean broken.’ He did not say it loudly and she was not sure she had heard right so she continued .
Idiom: open someone's eyes (used idiomatically: yes)
Behind him , Farquhar propped him up unobtrusively as he swayed slightly , his glazed expression half - hidden by his neatly - brushed beard . With the wild night , after two months , sobriety , he had a hangover would stiffen an eel . He opened his eyes , blinked , and saw the bowl of mulled wine . In three seconds he was tilting it down his throat , ignoring the cups . He sighed with relief , wiped his beard and looked round more clearly .
Idiom: have words (used idiomatically: no)
I 've lived here long enough to know . In a few years things may change , I ca n't promise that , but they may . And you have my word that you wo n't be forgotten , not by Whitehall , not by Foreign and Commonwealth . It 's going to boil down to keeping your pecker up , looking on the best side of things . You 'll do that , wo n't you , old chap …
Idiom: home and dry (used idiomatically: yes)
United made sure of the win midway through the second half … a gold star for David Collins having set up the first he made the second too … Bristol City looked for the offside … Joey Beauchamp cracked it in … and Oxford were home and dry at 2 - 0 … It was also a Good easter for Hereford … played two won one and drawn one … they only let in one goal … here it comes … scored by Shrewsbury Griffiths after just two minutes of the game at the Gay Meadow …
Idiom: in the pink (used idiomatically: no)
This will give a firm footing and will stand up to the constant flow of traffic . A longer pile carpet would flatten over time and might become slippery with wear . In the pink Flooring : Tapis D'Avignon 98 per cent wool felt floorcovering in Bois De Rose and Corail colourways , comes in 140 cm widths but can be sewn together to cover larger areas , or bound with linen tape to make rugs . A very hardwearing floorcovering , it is available in 12 colours with five different shades of edging tape , £ 61.25 per sq m , seaming and binding extra Furniture : Painted wheel - back chair , £ 675 Best for : All rooms except kitchens , bathrooms and stairs
Idiom: on the make (used idiomatically: yes)
She asked then for you , miss . And my boy , t'lad , he went … ’ Kindness , fear and , a little on the make . I saw them all war in her face . Vicky .
Idiom: out and about (used idiomatically: no)
Regional and runners-up prizes will also be up for grabs . Under The National Investment Programme for Schools and Colleges , each school has to invest an imaginary £10,000 — left to them by an ex-pupil . A pilot version , carried out in March in Nottingham , proved popular among teachers and students , according to Proshare , which was set up earlier this year to disseminate information about share ownership to would-be investors . Flat beer results McEWANS to Brown Ale giant Scottish & Newcastle has unveiled flat results .
Idiom: keep someone in the dark (used idiomatically: yes)
' Not since I realised how it was reared , think of shutting out the daylight all their lives . ' ' Please ? ' ' They keep the calves in the dark so that the flesh is whiter . ' ' And does that make it taste otherwise ? ' ' I do n't know .
Idiom: in my book (used idiomatically: yes)
They , and all of life in India in its own way , are sacred , but the holes bored by the former and the mounds erected by the latter in the paddocks were a threat to the horses , Occidental logic demanded that the one could best be filled by the deposition of the other . This was achieved but the worst was feared . In my book , more danger would come from the vet , whose tetanus syringes were kept in his bicycle puncture outfit . But he meant well , and the place and his practice thrived in the way that life tends to in India . Fecundity and infinity make happy bedfellows : there are probably 1,000 million Indians and — who knows ? — the only impossibilities in this country are finding a size - three horseshoe nail and a bath plug that fits .
Idiom: out of the blue (used idiomatically: no)
While concert performance can not reproduce all the subtleties of a recording , the band was drilled to precision and communicated the necessary edge with solid strength . After a two - handed version of ' Beat(en ) Generation'(Marr and Johnson ) — its natural swagger becoming almost music - hall syncopation — they dipped into the four - album back catalogue with aplomb . ' Out Of The Blue ' was fractured in the extreme , ' Heartland'became a loose - limbed skank , and Marr more than proved his worth on ' Violence of Truth ' . Good as the concert was , it was rather too middle of the road for a tour titled ' The The vs The World ' and , sadly for fans of the more paranoid earlier work , Johnson 's attempts to darken the proceedings ended up looking silly . By not uttering a word to the audience , then keeping the stage shrouded in smoke , lit only from the back in lurid purple , orange and red , and reducing the band to shadowy figures looming out of a fog , he put so much distance between them and anybody past the regulation front - of - stage pogoers that attention easily wandered .
Idiom: nothing doing (used idiomatically: no)
He would n't tell me what was going on down there because he did n't want to worry me as far as the safety conditions at that particular mine . Erm , and when they did complain to somebody , like a company man you know well that 's all the farther it went . There was nothing done to correct it . The shock o of losing someone you 've been married to for twenty one years , we grew up together , he was my best friend , he was n't just my husband he was my best friend . You lose all of that .
Idiom: turn the corner (used idiomatically: yes)
He turned away and headed eastward , keeping to the safety of the deserted side streets . Unruliness frightened him ; he felt so vulnerable in his frailty . As he turned the corner into Bridgefoot Street he stopped , daunted by the steep slope before him . He rested for a few minutes , before pushing himself on . Despite the lateness of the hour , some children were still playing on the footpath .