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Idiom: call it a day (used idiomatically: yes)
By NEIL WILSON Thompson 's career — the Daley record 1976 Olympic Games ( Montreal ) 18th 1977 European Juniors , 1st 1978 Commonwealth Games ( Edmonton ) lst European Championships ( Prague ) 2nd 1980 Olympic Games ( Moscow ) 1st World record ( Gotzis ) 8,648 pts 1982 World record ( Gotzis ) 8,730 pts European Championships ( Athens ) lst World record 8,774 Commonwealth Games , Brisbane , lst 1983 World Championships ( Helsinki ) lst 1984 Olympic Games ( Los Angeles ) lst World record 8,847 1986 Commonwealth Games ( Edinburgh ) lst European Championships ( Stuttgart ) lst 1987 World Championships ( Rome ) 9th 1988 Olympic Games ( Seoul ) 4th It has not been a good year for the class of ‘ 76 . David Moorcroft called it a day , and Steve Ovett cried in public and was urged to . That leaves Daley Thompson as the sole survivor of the British men 's team at the Montreal Olympics still at the top . Will he be the next to go ?
Idiom: call someone's bluff (used idiomatically: yes)
CHAPTER NINE Folly could n't believe that she was letting this happen . Why had n't she stood her ground ; simply called Luke ' s bluff — even pleaded with him if she 'd thought it would do any good ? But instead , she had let him drive her back to the flat ; had stood by in mute acquiescence while he 'd ransacked her drawers and cupboards and packed her a bag . And now here she was , sitting meekly in the passenger - seat of his car , while he drove her out of London with the controlled aggression of a racing driver .
Idiom: work wonders (used idiomatically: yes)
The maid had been in , for the bed was made and the breakfast things cleared away . One glance in the dressing - table mirror as she sat down showed she looked as fraught as she felt . Make - up could work wonders , though , and she was just putting the finishing touches to her lipstick when Travis came through the connecting door . ‘ Hi , how did it go?’ Had he been waiting there for her to return ?
Idiom: bits and bobs (used idiomatically: yes)
The gypsy camp they 've Aye . arrested six of them all they found all bits and bobs off hundreds and hundreds and thousands of pounds worth of cars , and four wheel drives they specialise in and off to the continent with it . Yeah it 's all organised , it 's not like like the gypo 's will be doing like this Oh yes !
Idiom: in light of (used idiomatically: yes)
At the moment I am examining a large number of detailed proposals that have been put to me . We have a meeting within the next couple of weeks to discuss those proposals and I assure my Hon. Friend that we will publish the details as quickly as possible . Mr. Michael : In the light of the White Paper , what importance should the public in Wales now place on the 10-year plans being prepared by health authorities and considered by his Department ? Will the right Hon. Gentleman exempt Wales from the opting-out schemes which could make those plans meaningless ? Mr. Walker : No .
Idiom: come to think of it (used idiomatically: yes)
Yes I am seeing Jessie tonight Ollie yo , I do n't know why you want to know that . No . Probably , no , actually I probably wo n't see her tonight come to think of it . Going gym tonight ? Most probably .
Idiom: come to terms with (used idiomatically: yes)
Tragedy widow 's scare A WOMAN who lost her husband and two small sons in a fire earlier this year has had an attempted break - in at her new home . Dawn Wright , 23 , of Hollywell , who is still struggling to come to terms with her tragedy , believes the burglars must have known who she was . They removed electrical fuses from outside the flat in Hollywell where Mrs Davison and daughter Jody , 12 months , now live , but failed to get in . Kenny Davison , 25 , and sons Jonathan , 4 , and Damien , 2 , died in the fire which swept through the upper floor of their council house at Heol - y - Brenin , Hollywell .
Idiom: fall in line (used idiomatically: no)
So the digger will arrive on site . We will continue to from two three we will continue to dig the foundations in the mean time we hope the concrete the concrete will be arriving on site to complete those footings . At the same time it is my belief that while we were do doing the footings we can also the concrete to fall in line where we will erm put the main floor in . Erm during the course of the footings and flooring taking place , bricks have been ordered to come in where the walls are being built together with the joinery . You 'll see a dotted line coming off on er ordering the bricks it comes in here er to er the roof structure .
Idiom: wet behind the ears (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ My mother was American . ’ PUT DOWN BY ONE LINE THE 1987 heavyweight fight betwen Joe Bugner and Frank Bruno at Spurs was my first big promotion and to say I was wet behind the ears is an insult to water . Everything had gone brilliantly , we had 30,000 people there , the show was making loadsamoney and everybody was in a good mood , especially Joe Bugner who was getting £250,000 quid . Anyway , muggins here went into his dresing room just before the fight and gushed : ‘ Joe , it 's my first big show , and you 've been a professional in every sense of the word .
Idiom: do the right thing (used idiomatically: yes)
" A rat , perhaps , or pheasant chicks . Lucky for us it had killed , otherwise it might have been quicker . Still , fortunately we did the right thing . We really came out of it very well,"said Bigwig . Fiver came limping down the path with Pipkin .
Idiom: on the house (used idiomatically: no)
This applies not only to the independent middle - class dwelling , but to the working class too when part of a great estate . The poor man at the gate , as in Harewood village , might inhabit a version of the rich man 's house ( Fig . 23c ) . The persistent conviction that one should model one 's house on houses superior to it is further emphasized by the popular practice of country house visiting . Sir Charles takes his Harriet off to view ' fine houses ' as an appropriate pastime for the newly we d . Fanny Burney 's heroine , Camilla , makes one of a similar party to Knowle .
Idiom: tell it like it is (used idiomatically: yes)
There 's little hope in this film — the forces of law are as bad in their way as the drug barons . The scenes of Raynor injecting himself are sickening and his drug withdrawal sequence is harrowing . But no one can blame Rush for telling it like it is . SCOTT BAKULA of TV 's Quantum Leap displays his wider talents as a cop with a conscience in the true life tale In The Shadow Of A Killer ( Odyssey , 15 out now ) . He plays New York detective David Mitchell , a hero with 30 arrests to his credit but an aversion to killing .
Idiom: do the honours (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ We find a lot of people stop off on their way home from work and then again on their way out to dinner . Fulham has a good atmosphere in the evening , and I think a bookshop is the perfect place for people to meet,’ says Harriet Currie . Raconteur Lloyd Grossman fourth from left did the honours at his local bookshop last week , launching the new , enlarged Nomad Books in Fulham Road , London SW6 . Friends and customers joined in the celebrations , hosted by owners Harriet and Andrew Currie ( to Mr Grossman 's right ) . Nomad carries a good general stock , with travel a particular speciality .
Idiom: odd one out (used idiomatically: yes)
The latest goodies are SunLink ISDN , Sunlink Frame Relay and Sunlink Point - to - Point Protocol . The names of the first two are pretty self - explanatory , and the last implements the Point - to - Point protocol used to connect routers . All three are software products but Sunlink ISDN is the odd one out . For one thing it is available only for the Sparcstation 10 , for another it will be shipping free with the machines from next spring . When the Sparcstation 10 was originally launched , much was made of the built in ISDN interface based on an AT&T chip set .
Idiom: go all the way (used idiomatically: yes)
The new couple are preparing for a life together as a normal man and woman . David says : ‘ Linda has understood who I was and what I was . I 've gone all the way around the circle and got to the beginning again . ‘ She drew a door for herself through all the barriers I set up around myself and walked in.’ Information and help for transexuals and transvestites is available from the Magree Society on Darlington 382878 .
Idiom: to the letter (used idiomatically: yes)
The Minister for Health sought to defend the indefensible when she wrote in a recent letter to The Guardian about the abolition of the tests . Her letter brought forth a torrent of rebukes from people far more expert than she — and far more caring . Mr. Ian Hunter , Secretary General of the Association of Optometrists , wrote in reply to the Minister 's letter : ' To restart national health service eye examinations for the over 60s would now cost about £ 25 million but the cost for not doing so will be two or three times as much because eye disease will remain undetected until treatment is less effective and more expensive . The real social costs of blindness for some have also regrettably to be added . ' I can only add that the abolition of free eye tests is the worst false economy imaginable , and could only be contemplated by such a short - sighted Government .
Idiom: every last (used idiomatically: yes)
For they soon simulated a luxury bed where Betsy could happily place her forehead . Sometimes old Betsy would wander the parks , as hungry for bread as the pigeons and larks , she 's scavenge through each of the large litter bins , or anything left in packets or tins . Wherever she went she carried her bag with her personal belongings down to every last rag . A bit of a burden , but she treasured it all , he wealthy possessions screwed up in a ball . In the summer the scene as the sun slowly sank , gave reflections in pink from the long river bank .
Idiom: in tandem (used idiomatically: yes)
Fine works by Sir William Gillies include an atypical Winter Sun , Temple which has metaphysical hints of Paul Nash . The most intense colour appears in Andrew Walker 's Tweed Valley whose swift green recession below a blue / violet sky is punctuated by hawthorn bushes and dark distant copses . These splendid shows run in tandem until 3 March . Powerful huddle : Fojcik spent a year at a Fife greyhound stadium resulting in works such as Punters Before A Race On screen gods and sods Popular movie images of men come under scrutiny in a special course .
Idiom: on the face of it (used idiomatically: yes)
In fact ‘ they ’ said a lot of things when Wild Country decided to make a Flexible Friend 3 . Most of it has been proved wrong . On the face of it , the Friend 3 seems the model least likely to benefit from flexibility — the thick stem interferes little with the working of the cams , both designs have the same strength rating and there 's only a few grams difference in weight between them . Yet a flexible stem makes such a difference ; horizontal placements , angled placements , pockets , all gobbled up by its voracious cams . Certainly my wire is yet to get bent and distorted with use — the real durability test of any flexible camming device .
Idiom: out and about (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ Further away you might be a nuisance.’ Unplaced impatience felt like burrs on Thomas 's skin . He leaned over to her and said , –No , you should get out and about more,’ which affronted her . He had broken the fourth wall . In the late afternoon , slow to go home , he dropped in on an elderly doctor friend and played tennis .
Idiom: spend a penny (used idiomatically: yes)
She intentionally misinterpreted his scathing remark . ' Are n't I , ' she agreed blithely . ' My parents might have spent every penny they earned on helping their out - of - work friends , but Gran brought me up to be thrifty and never to get into debt . ' She inhaled the aroma of his thick black coffee and looked with some doubt at her murky cup of tea . ' Admirable , ' Lucenzo said , his mouth mocking .
Idiom: out of order (used idiomatically: yes)
Johannsen each claimed a Hurricane shot down at 1045 , both in the same location - obviously the Fulmars . It seems that official confirmation may not have been forthcoming , for the German O.K.W. records noted only a single Hurricane shot down during this day , while Müncheberg 's claim was apparently classed as a ‘ probable’ , although it remained on his personal list of successes . Vincent - Jones continues : ‘ We decided that some sort of celebration would not be out of order on the occasion of this remarkable escape . ‘ Ginger’ Hale , who had led 819 Squadron into Taranto harbour and had recently been appointed to command the Naval Section at Hal Far , suggested he should drive some of us , including the three lucky pilots into Valetta for dinner at the Union Club . This sounded a good idea .
Idiom: in business (used idiomatically: yes)
The plant was built by the Nuclear Energy Agency of the OECD , which set up Eurochemic in 1957 . In 1974 it was squeezed out of the market by an Anglo - French - German enterprise , United Reprocessors . Both France and West Germany intend to double their reprocessing capacity by 1990 — when the THORP plant at Windscale should be in business . Genentech buys relaxin GENENTECH , the biotechnology company from the US has signed an agreement with the Howard Florey Institute of Experimental Physiology and Medicine in Melbourne for commercial development of the human - birth hormone , relaxin .
Idiom: on the cards (used idiomatically: yes)
The exchange 's duty to act fairly means without arbitrariness or capriciousness , and on the basis of relevant considerations . Normally , for an exchange to be arbitrary or capricious , it would have to behave in a way which no reasonable person in its position would have done . Such a situation will be rare , but might arise if , say , the exchange required all floor traders to have their mnemonics printed on their trading cards , failed to accept delivery of the cards by the member to the trading floor , and then brought an action for breach of the original requirement . Fairness also means acting impartially and without bias . The governing board and committees of exchanges are usually composed of market participants .
Idiom: bear fruit (used idiomatically: yes)
Perhaps the greatness which Cluny achieved amongst Western monasteries shows , amongst other things , that in the final analysis living saints were even more effective than dead ones . This account of Western Christianity in the early Middle Ages may have been rather weighted towards the political , and perhaps , given the political complexion of the discussion , it may be surprising to many readers that more has not been said about the papacy . The popes pressed their primatial and jurisdictional claims with impressive continuity in this period ; using every appeal to them made by Carolingian churchmen seeking to bolster their own positions ; making a bid to establish the authority of the papacy over the Bulgarian church ; declaring its sole power to establish a new archbishopric as at Magdeburg in 968 ; and developing the special relationship with the new Polish church at the turn of the first millennium which would ultimately bear fruit in a Polish pope at the turn of the second . But the political story of the Christian church in this age is a story particularly about bishops . Bishop Rathier of Verona wrote in the 930s that the church was one in all its bishops ; that not Jerusalem , not Rome , not Alexandria , had received a special prerogative of rule to the exclusion of others ( he tucks Rome pointedly into the middle ) .
Idiom: out of sorts (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ Been looking like death lately , she has.’ ‘ Yes , she does look better,’ replied Melissa , thinking that the return of Rodney 's jacket must have convinced Eleanor that he had at last been eliminated from police enquiries . ‘ Mind you , it 's no wonder she 's been out of sorts after that dreadful business at the tech … and Major Ford tittle - tattling all over the village.’ If it was Mrs Foster 's intention to express disapproval of the Major 's predilection for gossip , the animation in her tone and the wild fluttering of her colourless eyelashes seemed rather to show an unhealthy interest in what he had to say and an eagerness to discuss it . Melissa had no intention of obliging her .
Idiom: on the nose (used idiomatically: yes)
The Parkins ' house stood in a drive marked at the entrance with a notice restricting access to residents only . The sergeant bumped over the sleeping - policemen and gazed at the neatly trimmed lawns and hedges with aggrieved jealousy in his eyes : the private estate was a symbol of a world from which he was excluded , a world of privilege and snobbery , a world that had turned its back on the poor , the sick and the unfashionable who had been swarming round their car only ten minutes before . Once again he thought how privileged he was as a policeman , given a special dispensation to walk into other people 's houses — whether rich or poor , criminal or victim — and ask intimate questions that would have led anyone else to be punched on the nose . Dexter remembered occasionally seeing David Parkin 's face on television : handsome , weathered and topped by a shock of prematurely white hair . He smelt of good - quality eau de toilette , his grasp firm as he shook them by the hand and strode ahead , waving the nanny and his young son towards the sitting - room .
Idiom: in light of (used idiomatically: yes)
It requires … 'insulting behaviour . ' What then is an insult ? We do not propose to attempt any sort of definition , particularly after the speeches in Brutus v. Cozens , but some consideration of its characteristics are necessary in the light of counsel 's submissions that behaviour of the type here is not insulting . One can not insult nothing . The word presupposes a subject and an object and , in this day and age , a human object .
Idiom: be my guest (used idiomatically: yes)
Bridget sat up straight . ‘ I wo n't hear of it,’ she said . ‘ You and Geoffrey are my guests . I 've got a very nice bottle of dessert wine I put in the fridge an hour ago — I know you like Muscatel , Loretta . Come and get some clean glasses .
Idiom: come to terms with (used idiomatically: yes)
If such unresolved conflicts are successfully addressed , if individuals can begin to forgive themselves for their failures and indiscretions , it can bring them a renewed meaning and significance for the remaining part of their lives . Yet here the counsellor faces the problem of whether to delve into the difficult past , or to leave it alone . The decision rests on a balance between helping individuals to come to terms with what has happened in their lives at difficult times , risking the possibility of taking them back through stressful and disturbing memories , and leaving the past alone , risking the possibility that counsellees will never come to terms with what is disturbing them . Such a decision should not be taken timidly . The view that upsetting issues should be avoided is one that has already been addressed .
Idiom: have been around (used idiomatically: yes)
After the crops have been harvested , there are good ‘ pickings’ of seeds and insects for many birds . The first surprise is a party of fieldfares by the roadside which fly off ‘ chacking’ among themselves . Are they recent arrivals from Norway , or birds which have been around since the autumn migration ? Puzzling over this , I nearly miss a water rail which scuttles off down a drainage ditch towards the loch of Westsandwick . I pull up and watch for a time but typically the bird does not re - appear .
Idiom: in the can (used idiomatically: yes)
Signed on . Begged a bit of dosh together by laying a hat on the floor down the underground and sucking a harmonica . That 's another track in the can for our forthcoming double concept album ‘ Tequila Mockingbird’ . Jet - skied over to our studio in Walford to arrange the orchestral parts of ‘ Where The Fleets Have No Blame’ about war and Imperialism and wife - beating and the launderette being full . Arranged them by pushing the ‘ record’ and ‘ play’buttons down at the same time .
Idiom: let the cat out of the bag (used idiomatically: yes)
But , for Mr Major , the chief worry was that Mr Bangemann 's bombshell could not have been better timed to inflict the maximum damage to his efforts to quell the Tory rebellion . It exploded just as Mr Major called in 20 more Tory rebels in another desperate bid to save the Maastricht Bill , and lift the question mark still hanging over his own political future . Jubilant Tory Euro - sceptics immediately claimed that Mr Bangemann had ‘ let the cat out of the bag.’ ‘ Spot on Martin,’ Lord Tebbit declared . Former Tory Cabinet Minister Lord Ridley said : ‘ I am sorry for John Major.’
Idiom: one and the same (used idiomatically: yes)
Acceptable difference , rather than weakening the force and the confidence of normative rationality , tightens its grip and extends its appeal . It is characteristic of the sickness that even the best - intentioned reformer who uses an impoverished and debased language to recommend renewal , by his adoption of the insidious mode of categorization and the bad philosophy it conceals , strengthens the very power of the established order he is trying to break . False clarity is only another name for myth ; and myth has always been obscure and enlightening at one and the same time : always using the devices of familiarity and straightforward dismissal to avoid the labour of conceptualization . Adorno 's critique , therefore , and in particular the critique of the Culture Industry is mounted from the increasingly beleaguered and restricted field of the avant garde , and it is this , in part , which wins it the current disapproval of the more enthusiastically affirmative , apparently democratic , or outright populist approaches to popular culture . Undoubtedly , the failure or unwillingness of Adorno and Horkheimer to find difference in the cultural find which they survey in the Culture Industry essay — American popular culture of the thirties — is damaging .
Idiom: state of the art (used idiomatically: yes)
DIRE STRAITS : THE VIDEOS A DECADE of direness from ' Sultans Of Swing ' to Notting Hill Billies . One hundred minutes of increasingly state - of - the - art promos . A chart topper all the way to Christmas and back . RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS : What Hits ?
Idiom: in the clear (used idiomatically: no)
The Prime Minister My hon . Friend certainly puts the point crisply , and I entirely agree with him . Conservatives believe that people should be left with as much as possible of their own money to spend in their own interests , in the clear belief that they will spend it better in their interests than any Government will do for them . We leave it to the Opposition to advocate higher taxes . That is not our view .
Idiom: moment of truth (used idiomatically: yes)
GAVIN HASTINGS leads the British Lions into the first Test against New Zealand 's All Blacks tomorrow determined to give British sports fans something to cheer . After the English cricket and soccer debacles of the past week , Hastings ' side hope to make up for the misery by catching the All Blacks cold New Zealand have not played a Test for 10 months and face the Lions with a new team . This is the moment of truth for the Lions the six build - up provincial games can be forgotten . Hastings is relying on his fellow backs to win it . ‘ Without question our backs are superior to New Zealand 's .