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Idiom: have been around (used idiomatically: no)
But promising newcomer Victor Ubogu has taken his shirt leaving the older hand desperate to push his case for the Barbarians against the world champions , Australia . ‘ This is a tremendous opportunity to prove a point,’ he confirmed . ‘ I have been around too long to take anything for granted so when I saw which way the wind was blowing I just buckled down and got on with playing.’ Ubogu 's selection against South Africa , after a tough baptism against Canada , was a surprise … especially to the opposition ! Their front row trio , Johann Styger , Willie Hills and Keith Andrews , admitted that they had prepared on the basis that they would scrum down against the most successful England unit in history .
Idiom: break ranks (used idiomatically: yes)
I pay tribute to the work of the United Kingdom delegation . One of my officials chairs the experts committee that laid the groundwork for this achievement . On reflection , the hon . Gentleman will agree that it is far better for all nuclear powers and principal arms manufacturers to move forward together , rather than for any one to break ranks and anticipate matters . I entirely agree that China 's transfer of technology to other aspirant nuclear powers is deplorable . We must all do our best to make the non - proliferation treaty work effectively and , if necessary , give it more teeth .
Idiom: come to mind (used idiomatically: yes)
Move in with Celia whenever you want.’ And he turned back to his desk . She would have liked to make some cutting rejoinder but none came to mind so she went out , closing the door behind her . At ten o'clock he switched off his computer and put away his books . Mitch skipped out of his basket , tail wagging , and they went downstairs together .
Idiom: at the end of the day (used idiomatically: no)
LONDON – With massive anti - government protests across Egypt on June 30 – a year to the day after Egyptians elected their first - ever civilian president – a diverse and decentralized movement has challenged President Mohammad Morsi 's hold on power as never before . Hundreds of thousands were mobilized to take to the streets , with many storming and burning down the Cairo headquarters of the ruling Muslim ~ Brotherhood . At the end of the day , the president was given an ultimatum . The first " revolutionary " statement of Egypt 's new grassroots Tamarod ( rebel ) movement demanded that Morsi leave within two days or face a march on the presidential palace . " In the name of 22~million citizens , we declare that Mohammad Morsi is no longer the legitimate President of Egypt . "
Idiom: spring to mind (used idiomatically: yes)
THE IBERIAN Baroque is waiting to be rediscovered ; with Antonio Teixeira 's 20-voiced setting of the Te Deum The Sixteen uncovered a Portuguese corner of a vast , but largely forgotten or ignored , musical tapestry . By the eighteenth century , the music of the Iberian Peninsula , so long dominated by North European developments , had a decidedly Italianate weave : Scarlattian , even occasionally Vivaldian threads run through the texture . Yet this piece has much that is freshly inventive and original , even if these were epithets that , alas , did not readily spring to mind with regard to the performance it received . The Te Deum was never the most popular text amongst composers of the pre - Baroque , but in the eighteenth century it enjoyed a new , though rather limited , vogue : from Purcell and Handel to Haydn , festive settings with large and colourful forces became the norm . Teixeira 's contribution to the genre was first performed in 1728 , just after he had return to Portugal from Rome , and it reveals Italian influence in its polychorality ( it is scored for five ‘ choirs’ of four voices each ) and the florid , operatic nature of the solo snippets .
Idiom: do the right thing (used idiomatically: yes)
In this period , the Rottweiler attains his sexual maturity and guarding instinct . His home and garden is patrolled , without command . It always seems funny when a Rottweiler guards for the first time , barking loudly , usually backing off , not quite sure if he is doing the right thing . When dogs bark , it is a call for assistance , calling up the pack if you like . A barking dog is not usually dangerous .
Idiom: keep a lid on (used idiomatically: yes)
Diverse roles in A Fish Called Wanda and Cry Freedom have kept him from being pigeon - holed by casting directors . Music still plays a large part in his life and one of the great thrills of filming Consenting Adults was the opportunity to jam with Atlanta blues musicians . Kline keeps a very tight lid on his own private life . ' The more anonymous I am as an actor the easier it is to make you believe I 'm someone else . ' He has been so successful at keeping his private life private that it took six months for the world 's gossip columns to find out that he married his long - term girlfriend Phoebe Cates , star of the Gremlins films .
Idiom: at sea (used idiomatically: yes)
I 'll prepare a ship at Bristol , take you and Hawkins with me , and have that treasure if I have to search for a year!’ We opened the cloth and found two things — a book and a paper . The book gave a list of all the money Flint had stolen from different ships during twenty years at sea . The doctor opened the paper and found a map of an island . There was a hill in the centre marked Spyglass , and several names that had been added later .
Idiom: sleep rough (used idiomatically: yes)
Andrew 's family has been trying for three years to get treatment for him . But 32 previous arrests for shoplifting failed to result in a jail sentence until now . The barn where he used to sleep rough is now empty … and for his mother there is relief Female speaker I 've just got to learn to let go now .
Idiom: as a rule (used idiomatically: yes)
As Lindstedt ( 1986 ) explains , ‘ there is a simple correspondence between the distance of a focused object from the eye and the size of its image on the retina . If the distance is reduced to the half , the image will become twice as large , if the distance is reduced to a third , the image becomes three times larger and so on.’ When visually investigating objects for details , the visually impaired child as a rule ‘ peers close’ , that is , brings the object close to the eye , or the eye close to the object . By this method the detail of the object will be seen in a wider visual angle and the retinal image will be magnified , a greater part of the retina thus being activated . This in turn might compensate for a reduced number of active cones and visual neurons per unit of retinal area .
Idiom: blaze a trail (used idiomatically: yes)
Some were canonised and others — like Eckhart and Tauler — were hounded by the Church , but all were seen to be of enormous importance by their contemporaries , even by people who could not follow them into the inner world . They were the pioneers of a new human experiment in the West and seemed the men and women of the hour . It is perhaps not inappropriate to compare them to the astronauts in our own day : they had broken into an uncharted region , blazed a new trail to God and to the depths of the self and had returned to earth like the heroes of antiquity , bringing news of a hitherto unimaginable realm which gave an entirely new perspective on the human condition . England too made a significant contribution to this new Western development and produced four great mystics who quickly attracted a considerable following on the continent as well as in their own country : Richard Rolle of Hampole ( c. 1290–1349 ) , the unknown author of The Cloud of Unknowing , Walter Hilton ( d. 1376 ) and Dame Julian of Norwich ( c. 1342–1416 ) . We know very little about their lives but we get a strong sense of the individuality of each one in their writings .
Idiom: get lost (used idiomatically: yes)
Well , the way things are going this season I could well be clearing off . I have it on good authority from a cousin in Stockport , who has a drinking buddy who knows the car park attendant at Altrincham , that my name has already been linked with a managerial post at both Rotherham and Manchester United . Let me tell you , when those dubbin - lickers at Whaddon go on their knees and beg me to bring my United first team squad to ‘ The Tip’ to put a few quid in their ailing coffers , I shall take great delight in treading on Ken Mentle 's fingers , provided he survives last week 's heart attack , and raising two toes in a defiant ‘ get lost’gesture . I am the first person to admit that success is not that frequent at Athletico and on those rare occasions when it comes we are always left with a nasty aftertaste to spoil it . That aftertaste is Trevor Proby .
Idiom: get to grips with (used idiomatically: yes)
Gav 's under pressure from his missus to be home earlier while Paul 's wife is about to walk out . Can I stand the pressure of two more instalments ? Bernard Hill Joely Richardson and Sean Bean Manager Brian Duffield ( Danny Webb ) gets to grips with Johnny Lazar ( Tim Guinee ) in Comics Fifteen minutes and one Harley Davidson later , the funny man was dead funny . A case of the old domestics BERNARD HILL played a maverick detective in last night 's new drama Telltale .
Idiom: pack a punch (used idiomatically: yes)
Has a port - like quality , rich with the scent and flavour of nuts and plums . Albiger Hundskopf Siegerrebe Auslese ' 88 This Rheinhessen wine is made from the Siegerrebe — the richest German grape variety — which makes it capable of packing a walloping great punch of sweetness . Strongly flavoured with apricot , gooseberry and peach fruit , there is also a gloss of caramel . Far weightier than you would expect .
Idiom: one and the same (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ That does n't sound like a disadvantage,’ said Twoflower . ‘ You do n't think so ? Imagine every moment being at one and the same time a distant memory and a nasty surprise and you 'll see what I mean . Anyway , I now recall what it was I am about to tell you . Or have I already done so ?
Idiom: take the cake (used idiomatically: yes)
He stopped at the Pâtisserie and emerged with an elegant box bearing the insignia of the French Federation of Master Bakers . A miniature Fortnums in the remote French countryside ! ' Thought I 'd take them a cake , ' he remarked . Jane wondered who ' they ' referred to . She 'd soon see .
Idiom: rule of thumb (used idiomatically: yes)
The effect of being rich ( + 0.068 ) is seen to be pretty small . Confirmatory techniques exist to assess how likely a difference of proportions of a given magnitude is to arise in sample data when it has been drawn from a population in which no such difference exists . As a rule of thumb , when d s get down much below 0.05 , we can regard them as so small that they might just be a sampling fluke ; we will conclude that for all practical purposes there is no effect of one variable upon another , and erase arrows with very small path coefficients from our model . The original effect of being rich in figure 13.2 ( + 0.144 ) was spuriously high ; it was a product of the fact that young people are more likely to be rich and young people are also more likely to contemplate breaking the law . The operation of these two age effects is not , however , strong enough to actually reverse the sign of the relationship between income and law - breaking .
Idiom: settle a score (used idiomatically: yes)
' We 've been criticised in various quarters , but we used it as motivation before we met and beat Tipperary last month . ' We knew that criticism was unwarranted , and we 've proved the knockers wrong , but we 're still only halfway to finishing the job . ' Old scores may have been settled with victory over Tipperary , but he 's quick to emphasise that Galway have won nothing yet . The painful memory of last year 's semi - final defeat by Kilkenny acts as another spur . He said : ' On that occasion the game was there for the taking .
Idiom: touch and go (used idiomatically: yes)
Wycombe manager Martin O'Neill revealed last night : ' At half - time in the original tie , David performed some miraculous running repairs on Simon Stapleton , who was struggling with a back injury . ' Against the odds , Simon was able to play on after the interval and was an instrumental part of our fight - back . ' Unfortunately , Simon 's going to be touch - and - go again because he has hamstring trouble , but if Jonesy can work his magic again we ca n't rule him out . ' West Brom will be less apprehensive about the replay , but playing away from home has not presented us with any major phobia . ' We 've won more away games than any other Vauxhall Conference team in the past couple of years and , if we give West Brom less space , we can be quietly confident of doing oursevles justice again . '
Idiom: at sea (used idiomatically: no)
Unless you want to say down there ! " She went up the ladder , and was immediately grasped by the upper arms and marched unceremoniously into the great hall , where the family had gathered . Her head was swimming and the floor seemed to be undulating as if she were at sea . She was aware of five pairs of aristocratic eyes glaring at her : Lady Roscarrock , Sir Gregory and Amyas in the centre , flanked by the sisters Vera and Margaret . It appeared that Lady Roscarrock was going to take the lead .
Idiom: have been around (used idiomatically: no)
Next week , Peter Simpson will be talking about education and chemistry _ what is happening in schools and universities today . Professor Teething - Smith is the Director of the Office of Health Economics at London . I suppose , Professor Smith , that medicine 's been around just about as long as people have been around ? Yes , that 's right . It 's only recently that they 've been doing more good than harm and it 's therefore ironic that people have tended to give so much publicity in the last twenty or thirty years to the things that have gone wrong , to the disasters which sometimes do happen with medicines , because really medicines now , as compared with thirty or forty years ago , are doing a tremendous amount of good .
Idiom: across the board (used idiomatically: yes)
The Socialist Party 's François Mitterrand demanded elections . On 26 May the left made big gains in local elections in Dijon . On 27 May the government , the employers and the CFDT and CGT concluded the ' Grenelle agreements ' , embodying a 10 per cent across - the - board wage rise , an increase in the minimum wage , a small cut in working hours and a marginal extension of trade union rights . Up and down the country factory meetings debated the agreements and rejected them overwhelmingly . The Loire - Atlantique CGT left the federation , declaring that ' the struggle is not economic but political ' .
Idiom: bear fruit (used idiomatically: yes)
For I am surprised and enchanted often by some quality which I can not detect . ' I have seen an attribute of another world and condition of things . It is a wonderful fact that I should be affected , and thus deeply and powerfully , more than by aught else in all my experience — that this fruit should be borne in me sprung from a seed finer than the spores of fungi , floated from other atmospheres ! finer than the dust caught in the sails of vessels a thousand miles from land ! Here the invisible seeds settle , and spring , and bear flowers and fruits of immortal beauty . ' This feeling that Thoreau had was ecstasy or the peak experience , and it is an emotion .
Idiom: larger than life (used idiomatically: yes)
from the Oxford English Dictionary It is high time we renewed our acquaintance with young Benjamin Titford , William Charles 's younger brother . When we met him last he was a mere lad down in Somerset , gazing in wonderment at troops of militia , itinerant theatre companies and a larger - than - life basking shark . His was , in many ways , an inauspicious start to life : an 18th - century guide book could say of Frome : The situation of the town is pleasant — the surrounding country being agreeably diversified with hills , valleys , large enclosures , and fine woods ; and having the seats of many nobility and gentry …
Idiom: dead wood (used idiomatically: yes)
Jurors were required to restate the Forest bounds , for example in the counties of Dorset and Huntingdon , under the baleful eyes of this new team of royal servants . Woods belonging to subjects which had been unlawfully withdrawn from the forest — such as the Abbess of Romsey 's woods of Ashton Steeple and Edington in Wiltshire , and a wood belonging to Stratford Mortimer in Berkshire — were once again reclaimed into it . Men of the king 's demesnes , as in Rodley in the Forest of Dean , were required to show by what warrant they exercised their rights of common and estovers of dead and dry wood in the forest , and if they could produce none they were required to pay for them . Many Forest officers fared ill at Passelewe 's hands . John de Neville , an important English baron and a former Chief Justice of the Forest , who held for life the wardenship of the forests between Oxford and Stamford bridges , was convicted of grave offences , amerced in the enormous sum of 2,000 marks , and deprived of his wardenship , which Passelewe in 1246 secured for himself .
Idiom: take the liberty (used idiomatically: yes)
Sounds like an American novelist . FORUM Taking Liberties From Andrew Puddephatt , General Secretary of the National Council for Civil Liberties Last December Judge Rant jailed eight men for consensual activities ( MT February ) ; sado - masochistic ( S&M ) sexual practices carried out by homosexual men — in private .
Idiom: in the flesh (used idiomatically: yes)
Lindsey was intrigued . ‘ I had n't realised she was so tiny . She 's even more beautiful in the flesh than on screen.’ ‘ I 'll tell her you said so.’ She was vaguely aware of being guided expertly away from the crowded floor , and it was n't until they stepped out into the cooler night air that she realised how much of a relief it was to leave the noise behind .
Idiom: rule of thumb (used idiomatically: yes)
As for cars , a study of twenty - five countries concluded that a 10 per cent fuel price increase produced only a 3 per cent improvement in fuel economy . Price rises were ineffective unless they were so swingeing as to be ruinous . A rule of thumb is that investment in energy efficiency is expected to pay for itself in two years . If investments have already been made in recent years , the average investor will not bother to make further improvements until energy prices begin to hurt . A visitor to ACE 's premises noticed that the windows in the director 's office were not double - glazed .
Idiom: have a few (used idiomatically: yes)
She was going to have every physical attribute you could possibly imagine : a kind of step - up from the Avengers Honor Blackman lady — doing all sorts of physical stunts , judo and karate . And she was going to have wonderful costumes , specifically designed for her , featured in each story . ‘ I do remember , at the discussions with Verity , they even had a few sketches done of the kind of clothes she would wear . We spent some time going through a whole heap of magazines with a girl from the Costume Department , picking out a design here and there and saying , ‘ Yes , that sort of thing would be a good idea for her , would n't it?’ Then I asked , as we were going to go from century to century , if I could be allowed to collect a few bits of paraphernalia as we went along — odd little items that had taken my fancy which would then turn up in other stories .
Idiom: all over the place (used idiomatically: no)
I had n't had a good War for months ; the last one had been the Ordinary Soldiers versus the Aerosols . In that scenario , all the 72nd - scale armies , complete with their tanks and guns and trucks and stores and helicopters and boats , had to unite against the Aerosol Invasion . The Aerosols were almost impossible to stop , and the soldiers and their weapons and equipment were getting burned and melted all over the place until one brave soldier who had clung on to one of the Aerosols as it flew back to its base came back ( after many adventures ) with the news that their base was a breadboard moored under an overhang on an inland creek . A combined force of commandos got there just in time and blew the base to smithereens , finally blowing up the overhang on top of the smoking remains . A good War , with all the right ingredients and a more spectacular ending than most ( I even had my father asking me what all the explosions and the fire had been about , when I got back to the house that evening ) , but too long ago .
Idiom: pull the plug (used idiomatically: yes)
SLEEP TIGHT AND SAFELY When it comes to going to bed at night I do all the wrong things — and I 'll bet you do , too . I do n't shut all the internal doors and I certainly do n't pull most plugs out at the socket . Yet that is what fire chiefs say we should be doing if we want to make our homes safer . A closed door stops draughts spreading the flames , and dramatically slows the progress of a fire .
Idiom: let the cat out of the bag (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ As far as I know , his alibi is okay.’ Melissa was on the point of telling Iris about Shergold 's affair with Angy and the business of the jacket . It was the kind of story that she would relish but with her blunt ways one could never be sure she would n't at some time let the cat out of the bag . Not that one cared too much about the feelings of pompous , over - bearing Rodney Shergold but there was Eleanor to consider . She was suffering enough as it was .
Idiom: two heads are better than one (used idiomatically: yes)
No shortages of cliches , but La Plante showed again that cliches can still make good viewing if handled correctly . ARMY OF DARKNESS ( 15 ) Two heads are better than one for Bruce Campbell . THIS is acknowledged horror/ suspense king Sam Raimi 's first film since Darkman , which starred Liam Neeson as a mutilated anti - hero on a rampage of revenge . Writer / director Raimi continues that gruesome trend here , with Bruce Campbell slicing off part of his right arm with a chainsaw in the opening moments as he is attacked by a force of darkness .
Idiom: once and for all (used idiomatically: yes)
1 . Markets must be deeply embedded in systems of governance . The idea that markets are self - regulating received a mortal blow in the recent financial crisis and should be buried once and for all . Markets require other social institutions to support them . They rely on courts , legal frameworks , and regulators to set and enforce rules .
Idiom: go straight (used idiomatically: yes)
After last night ? You bet your I went straight over and I did n't get up for about ten minutes . He hit me that whole car park on the ground . He me something shocking .
Idiom: go by the board (used idiomatically: yes)
Of course , quite a lot of them do — putting down on paper what was agreed over the phone to be produced in evidence if the other side claims they never did , for example . But as the Customs people are finding , many of them do n't . Meanwhile , there are other niceties that have simply gone by the board in certain aspects of management life . Please or thank you , or complimenting someone on their effort , does n't seem to come naturally to many managers or supervisors . Of course people are paid to perform a particular task .
Idiom: hot air (used idiomatically: yes)
There were pomegranates in baskets and gourds drying on roof - tops . In every village , it seemed , a donkey circled its trough of crushed olives , and the press thudded down , helped by many brown arms , as the mash yielded its oozings through wicker . Where the scent of orange had deadened the senses in March , the resinous odour of olives weighed down the humid , hot air of this journey . Instead of flower - infused silence , the air was filled with the clamour of autumn : the cries , the chaffing , the folksongs , the team - songs of the villages ; the chinking of blades ; the rumble of flint - studded boards driven over the threshing - ground . The objecting bray of working donkeys .