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Idiom: in the same breath (used idiomatically: no)
In a letter of 25 January 1620 Sir John Chamberlain remarks a very significant event in the contemporary cross - dressing controversy : James I 's instruction to the clergy to suppress women doing it . The king is reported as having told the clergy that they must reproach the practice ‘ vehemently and bitterly’ , and if this did not succeed , he would take further measures . Chamberlain refers to this in the same breath as mentioning an argument between the Marquess Buckingham and Hamilton over ‘ the selling of honours and abasing ancient nobility , by new advancements’ . Class and sexual disruption suggest each other , and with this conclusion : ‘ The truth is the world is very far out of order’(Letters , ii . 286 — 9 ) .
Idiom: in someone's pocket (used idiomatically: yes)
Charles 's questions were spoiling his narrative flow . ‘ Wait here a minute , Frances.’ He went through to the Green Room , hoping that he 'd find Alex 's jacket still hanging there , with the gun still cold in its pocket , with all five shots still unfired . Alex was a prickly person , an unbalanced person , sometimes an infuriating person , but Charles did n't want to think of him as a murderer . Various members of the cast were lolling about the Green Room , in various stages of shell - shock .
Idiom: make a splash (used idiomatically: no)
She wished she could stand in the night and laugh , but already she had been heard . A shrew scuttled away in the undergrowth and Betty had opened her bedroom window wider . ' I 'm just coming , ' called Lydia , thinking how amusing it would be to make a big splash and drowning noises , but even she knew that this would not be the action of a nice woman . ' In a week , ' says Elizabeth . ' Beuno is coming in a week 's time .
Idiom: small print (used idiomatically: yes)
I would add only that the cost of insurance in Belgium , where I was general manager of a major insurance company for nine years , is much higher than in Britain , and the rate of inflation has now steadied after a major explosion when these factors were introduced . The Government has had to stop indexing their pensions for some years now . I only wonder why nobody has given us the small print of the Social Chapter that Labour and the Liberal Democrats want so badly . PETER MAGNUS Coln St Aldwyns , Glos Letter to the Editor : Position closed
Idiom: Bob's your uncle (used idiomatically: yes)
Splendid . Okay . Bob 's your uncle . Right . Let 's have a look at it .
Idiom: left and right (used idiomatically: yes)
You will lead the march , I shall be taking the salute . Any questions ? ’ Before anyone could say a word he had turned on his heel and strode off looking to left and right as he went . We stood and stared after him for a few seconds , then one of the mortar team behind me remarked . ‘ Now , lads , there goes a mad bastard if ever there was one . ’
Idiom: sleep like a log (used idiomatically: yes)
What an experience ! When I signed up for the trip I really did n't know just what to expect ; when I got my packet information I wondered how I would stand up to it but I soon found I adjusted very well and even though I had never slept in a tent in a tent in a sleeping bag or had any experience canoeing I did OK . Each night I really slept like a log . The trip started from the well known Camp Chewonki in Wiscasset , Maine . There were ten people on the trip and two guides , one a girl of 31 , Kaz , and Edward who was 22 .
Idiom: fly in the face of (used idiomatically: yes)
All of it . He sat by the door , and I knitted , knitted , knitted — I ca n't remember the letter word for word , but it was something like this : Dear Fred ( that 's the name she calls me by , he said , she does n't like Ferdinand — red with embarrassment ) . Very pleased to have yours and as I said in my last it 's your money , God has been very kind to you and you must n't fly up in the face of his kindness and I wish you had not taken this step , your Uncle Steve says property 's more trouble than it 's worth . I notice you do n't answer my question about the woman to clean . I know what men are and just remember what they say cleanliness is next to godliness .
Idiom: scarlet woman (used idiomatically: yes)
Cultural differences Cultural associations are hard to suppress and continue to influence centuries later . A woman can still be considered dangerous and exciting by wearing vibrant red clothes ; we are all familiar with the term ‘ scarlet woman’ . Yet its origin goes back hundreds of years , to the days when the women camp followers of the mighty Persian armies slept in their scarlet silk tents . What then of diverse cultures ; where black is not the colour of mourning but white is !
Idiom: in the dock (used idiomatically: no)
PACEMAN Merv Hughes was involved in a bouncer war in Hobart yesterday , forcing West Indian bowler Ian Bishop out of action as the visitors were bowled out for 382 . The Australian XI ended the day 101 ahead . Vinny in dock WIMBLEDON midfield player Vinny Jones today faces a three - man FA commission in London over his controversial remarks in the best - selling video ' Soccer 's Hard Men ' . Rogue club bunkers Ralph
Idiom: beg the question (used idiomatically: yes)
Not only has Simkin been unable to produce evidence of a family history of this genetic developmental disorder , but he has also failed to satisfy the essential diagnostic criteria . Simkin 's case rests on his proposed association of coprolalia , palilalia , and echolalia with alleged examples of facial and bodily motor tics , which occurred during Mozart 's adult life . However , with the solitary exception of Sophie Haibel 's mention of ‘ extraordinary grimaces with his mouth,’ which might qualify for a complex motor tic , Simkin then proceeds to deflate his argument by begging the question when he assigns inappropriately several examples of Mozart 's humorous hyperactivity to the category of motor ‘ Tourettisms.’ It must be emphasised that tics , the essential feature of Tourette 's syndrome , are ‘ involuntary , sudden , rapid , recurrent , nonrhythmic , stereotyped , motor movements or vocalizations’ which , though experienced as irresistible , can be suppressed for varying lengths of time . Neither the variability of Mozart 's facial expression , which portrayed his frequent alterations of mood , nor his compulsion to beat out , with repetitive movements of his hands and feet , the rhythm of the harmonies which continually filled his head , comply with the above definition of motor tics .
Idiom: run riot (used idiomatically: yes)
Keep to work and sanity and open air — to the cheerful and the matter of fact side of things . This was advice which he had been unable to fallow himself . With the reading of Hippolytus and the cracking of the outer shell of his cheerful , hard - working , no - nonsense self , introspection was running riot and ‘ spiritualism’— by which he clearly meant dabbling in affairs of the spirit rather than solely a preoccupation with the dead — had , by the summer of 1929 , taken a firm grip on him . No wonder , then , that when he came to write up the experience in Surprised by Joy he should have been so insistent that his father 's last illness and death ‘ does not really come into the story I am telling’ . He was frightened that hostile readers of his theological work would be able to say that his religion could be ‘ explained’ in terms of the Oedipus complex ( or perhaps the Hippolytus complex ) ; and that he was only able to find peace for his heart by coming to terms with a Heavenly Father of his own projection when he had seen the last of his earthly father in Belfast .
Idiom: stand someone in good stead (used idiomatically: yes)
While she was still a novice , Stephen insisted that her daily rides should be accompanied by a groom . Although Jonadab Oaks had never encouraged his girls to ride , as he did his sons , they had all on several occasions had a go at riding the horses owned by their father . Tamar found the side - saddle strange at first , but her previous experience stood her in good stead . She rode out most afternoons and gradually built up a familiarity with most parts of the Lassiter lands . In the July following Hilary 's birth , which had taken place in February , Stephen announced at dinner , ‘ I think it 's about time Seth Walton retired .
Idiom: on the horn (used idiomatically: no)
' Some of our fans said they were happy we did n't get a second goal because they feared more trouble , ' said Bangor secretary Freddie Anderson . ' In the end they were relieved we lost . ' Sportsmen tossed on horns of dilemma ALL - ROUND sportsmen Stephen Smyth and Marshal Kilgore have a dilemma this weekend — historic rugby match or a prestigious cricket final . Both men have plumped for the cricket final in Dublin in which they will be key men in the Brigade team which is attempting to win the Schweppes all - Ireland final for the first time .
Idiom: rough and ready (used idiomatically: no)
and I have watched the charging of her gaze heard the bleak phlegm in her voice dissolve seen rough - and - ready hands become devout . She opens this corpse like a flower ; inside it is clear and delicate as fruit .
Idiom: play ball (used idiomatically: yes)
Ron Barton sidled up to her , and , without as much as a by your leave , took a seat , placing his dictaphone between them as he did so . ‘ Pity you did n't accept my offer of five grand . The editor would have doubled it , if you 'd played ball with me . Now you 're all over the bloody papers . No hope of an exclusive.’
Idiom: go hand in hand (used idiomatically: yes)
Perhaps the secret 's in the wrist action — testosterone is n't the only thing that males have to discharge . Despite the advent of widespread home computer technology , a certain old pastime has n't been killed off . In fact , if you think about it , masturbation and computer games go hand in hand . Across the country thousands of teenage boys regularly retire to the privacy of their own bedrooms for some much - needed adolescent relief . You do n't have to have the insight of Claire Rayner to see that sexual frustration needs more than one outlet .
Idiom: carry the day (used idiomatically: yes)
Bill . Yes , Norman . Does the will of the Kuwaiti parliament transcend the will of the Emir and does parliament carry the day ? Yes , who 's got in the hierarchy of power , who really is top dog ? It is the people , the parliament actually , because the Emir when he proposes a cabinet the parliament can accept the cabinet , or change , or request it to be changed and even the Prime Minister , which is proposed or nominated by the Emir , the cabinet has to approve him , and together they they run the business of the government .
Idiom: run riot (used idiomatically: yes)
He had questioned a fundamental tenet of her life , that young women are more attractive than older women . Her self - confidence never recovered , since if her belief was right there must have been something else wrong with her , some terrible ugliness from which he had fled even into the arms of an older woman . Where the other woman is not known fantasy can run riot . The other becomes a witch , an evil enchantress , with amazing powers to seduce the innocent . Efforts are made to find out more about her , sometimes with extraordinary ingenuity .
Idiom: come to a head (used idiomatically: yes)
Like many of his fellow compatriots in the rogues ' gallery of Scottish football , Hughie Gallacher compulsively disliked authority . He treated the club directors with withering contempt , and he had a life - long battle with the disciplinarians of the English Football League , but like so many inspired players he reserved his loathing for referees , that brotherhood of unfortunates whose eyesight and parenthood are the subject of weekly abuse . Gallacher had a running vendetta with a famous English referee , Bert Fogg , which came to a head on New Year 's Eve 1927 . In a home match against Huddersfield Town , Newcastle were 3–2 down after conceding a questionable penalty to the visitors . Gallacher led the Newcastle protests which increased in their ferocity after he was pulled down in the box and denied the penalty that would level the score .
Idiom: go through the motions (used idiomatically: yes)
Exactly yeah . and if there 's an objection you wanna know about it now . Cos there 's no point in coming back and doing a second appointment and just go through the motions cos that will lead to what ? If the guy does n't know why you 're coming back Further objections .
Idiom: come to think of it (used idiomatically: yes)
The Pacifica series retail between £ 329 and £ 935 . Best regards , → Sorry to have forgotten about the Pacifica , Graham — although , come to think of it , Charvel / Jackson might also have been in on the act back in the mid - eighties . It 's also possible to customise your own guitar to compound - radius status . For instance , Chandler 's in Kew import some extremely high - quality necks by Warmoth in the USA in just about every conceivable combination of woods , scale lengths , neck profiles and so on .
Idiom: change hands (used idiomatically: yes)
3 . Consider the following information about a hypothetical economy : Stock of money = £ 50 million . Each pound changes hands on average 3 times per year . The number of transactions is 30 million per year . ( a )
Idiom: put words in someone's mouth (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ Did I say I wanted somethin' educational?’ ‘ No , Mr Oakley.’ ‘ Then do n't put words in my mouth.’ ‘ No , Mr Oakley,’ and she suppressed a smile . After they had left , she stood in the doorway and watched them walking down the main street past the square .
Idiom: fall on deaf ears (used idiomatically: yes)
If there were no need for sheltered workshops because disabled people were fully integrated into ‘ normal’ society , then it would be a gain ; but if , as I suspect , in these hard times it is impossible for many severely disabled people to get a job of any sort , surely the lack of opportunity to go to work is a loss — even if the kind of work they do is far from ideal . The one time disabled people were really encouraged to set their sights higher than the usual occupations reserved for them , such as basketwork , needlework , shoe or watch repairing , was during the second world war . As this book demonstrates , shortage of manpower ( as women also discovered ) will work wonders where political agitation falls on deaf ears . Perhaps the new aggressive political style of what is called here , as elsewhere , ‘ the disabled movement’— as if we all spoke with one voice — will force through changes for the better , but I have my doubts . Unbutton here SHAKESPEARE COMES TO BROADMOOR : THE PERFORMANCE OF TRAGEDY IN A SECURE PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL Murray Cox ( editor ) Jessica Kingsley , £ 12.50 paperback/£25 hardback Janet Gorman
Idiom: out of pocket (used idiomatically: yes)
Brightness became an international star when he gave Russian scientists the slip last September . Down and out in Beverly Hills THE property slump is leaving Hollywood stars hundreds of thousands of pounds out of pocket . Actress Britt Ekland and her estranged husband Jim McDonnell were forced to slash £ 200,000 off the price of their five - bedroom home in Beverly Hills to clinch a sale . The £ 450,000 selling price was nearly a third under its value .
Idiom: hold the fort (used idiomatically: yes)
Adam was Adam . He was capability itself . And Jill , the housekeeper I 'd employed just before leaving England , was just about holding the fort . We went into New York one weekend to see the theatre Don Taffner had suggested , the Criterion Center . It was bleak and unused , a sort of complex of two theatres , bars and restaurants .
Idiom: no sweat (used idiomatically: yes)
Those that did turn up enjoyed the jovial atmosphere and frantic dancing ensued , except at the home - town concert in Middleton . A law as ancient as Ukrainian folk song , ruled that chairs had to be left out because it was a Sunday . It was no sweat because everyone stood on the chairs and danced anyway . Everett True , writing in Melody Maker , probably summed up the general reaction to the shows when he wrote : ‘ It 's rock . It 's foreign .
Idiom: that makes two of us (used idiomatically: yes)
Neither , hopefully , will my dear brother . Honestly , he 's driving me insane!’ she exclaimed as she stirred the Aga into reluctant life . Well , that makes two of us , Hilary thought with a little smile as she sat at the table . It was nice to know she was n't the only one to suffer from his outrageous behaviour . ‘ Why he gets involved with other people 's troubles , I 'll never know,’ she continued in happy ignorance that she was just about to put her foot in it .
Idiom: save the day (used idiomatically: yes)
THESE have been feverish , unhappy days for John Major . Few of his ministers are saying , even in private , that they expect him to lose the next election . Economic recovery will save the day , as inflation tumbles later this year , they assure one another . But there is a nervousness about , a fit of the jitters that means the Easter holiday comes just in time . The overt problem has been , as usual , the poll tax .
Idiom: hit the road (used idiomatically: yes)
This was adapted by adding on a number of field ambulance tents , to provide a reception and documentation area and a huge waiting bay with 200 spaces available for crippled marchers . A long red carpet ran the entire length of the complex , adding a touch of regal splendour to the facility . The marchers had hit the road before 0500 hours , and by midday they were limping back to Heumensoord , having achieved success on day one . Success at Nijmegen is measured by the ability to complete the four days as a team . Speed is irrelevant , and all teams are advised to take it slowly .
Idiom: for the hell of it (used idiomatically: yes)
The most watched nature programmes are predator versus prey , bullies versus victims . When the puffer - fish escapes the jaws of the moray eel by inflating itself , we think , ‘ Perhaps I could do that when the moray eel comes for me’ . We cheer when a meerkat eats up a scorpion or a rattlesnake just for the hell of it . It gives us hope . Animal programmes force us to look at our fears : we stare into the eyes of the enemy ( bats , rats , snakes , sharks , wasps ) .
Idiom: have a bash (used idiomatically: yes)
In Amalgamemnon the pun and the lexical amalgam or portmanteau word work in the same way as discursive slips work in Out and mis - translation works in Between to create metaphors by revealing structural parallels between disparate discourses . As in Between , this technique serves to map the terminology of geopolitical conflict onto personal relations : And since even a polygonal story should have at least two sides in all international farewell orgies , how about packing it in and having a bash at normal behaviour eh , so as to get bashed again as whipping boy despite my morseled - out attempts to break free or go shiating on , turning the other cheek to sheer cheek as sitting target for the unclear missiles of affreux dizzy acts or as wailing wall of blame beyond the demarcation line or bowstring frontier that will boomerang back and much joy may it give me . ( 102 ) Amalgamemnon 's conflation of these two domains through the transformation of language prefigures a possible transformation of the discursive systems which maintain distinctions between public and private , fact and fiction . But on another level the linguistic acrobatics which the novel displays provide Mira with verbal strategies that enable her to cope with her fear for the future and her personal situation in the present .
Idiom: behind closed doors (used idiomatically: yes)
Tonight , she would rest and not think about her future until the morning . Tomorrow would come all too soon and then her problems would really begin . The foyer of the theatre was ablaze with lights , music drifting from behind closed doors carried to where Hari stood in the street with William at her side . Her eyes felt heavy , she had worked much of the previous night and most of the day to have the shoes for the theatre people ready in time . ‘ Noswaith da , Miss Morgan , going to the theatre like the rich folks now , is it?’
Idiom: get stuck into (used idiomatically: yes)
Ah ? what I 've seen in the paper today , we 're both gon na join today , er this week , er Council erm , er are looking forward to it , they approve of it bet you bloody County Council will So we 're gon na catch every traffic light on red now there was something I wanted to go into Wisbech for but I ca n't think for the life of me what it was , I must get stuck into this Christmas shopping again , really must so much to do and such little time to do it in oh he 's , he 's put that car down five hundred pounds , that price of that car was , that he got for sale on it seven , seven , nine , five , What , yeah then it went down to seven , fifty , now it 's six fifty it looking good a nick in , he 'd be lucky to get five I would have thought is there anyone you want a bit of crystal for ?
Idiom: do the right thing (used idiomatically: yes)
Not only governmental , but private and voluntary agencies too . In addition , a number of people who have gone through our study seminars keep in touch with us and tell us that they are using some of the things they 've learned here to be exposed here for their own work , but it 's very difficult to tell . I mean we hope we 're doing the right thing , and as I say the response we 're getting seems to indicate that , but we have not erm followed through each of we have a large number of participants every year , you see , in the order of about erm a hundred and fifty each year , so very difficult for you to try and follow through the fate of each of them . Thank you . Dudley , you 've been involved with the Institute right from the beginning , since it was founded , and you 're very heavily involved in its research programme .
Idiom: behind the scenes (used idiomatically: yes)
It was now part of their ingrained thinking that the newspaper barons were imposing their standards on the population by rewriting the language of tabloid journalism . The proles were being forced to put up with this stuff because there was no alternative . Secretly ( because the papers would never report it ) , behind the scenes a huge demand was building up for a ‘ decent’ paper , one which — dare they say it — would Tell the Truth . Another worry was now added to the complaints . Just as linotype operators at the Sun were breaking out the champagne to celebrate the arrival of £ 1,000 pay packets for a three - day week , the realization was beginning to dawn that sooner or later the power of the print unions would be broken by the introduction of new technology .
Idiom: go to town (used idiomatically: yes)
If they ask her to do something ! She , she will . And if she wants a new pair of shoes she 's got ta go to a new town and pay for them . everywhere to buy them ! Got her a paper of shoes today for .
Idiom: from the word go (used idiomatically: yes)
A spokesman for Durham County Council said the allegations would be thoroughly investigated provided Mr Grainger reported his concerns to the authority in the form of a letter . He added : ‘ Serious allegations of this sort , if they are proven , have a bearing on a person 's career and are always thoroughly investigated . ‘ In such cases the documentation has to be correct from the word go and if Mr Grainger puts it all down in writing his account will be used as the basis for our inquiries.’ LABOUR promised a better future for British women yesterday at the Northern launch of the party 's magazine for women . Woman Today has been written and produced by the Labour party to highlight what it claims are the inequalities facing women under the Conservatives .