instead. An idiom lang la idioma , special property , f. lang gr idi ma , special feature, special ... 232. Hillsdale, NJ Lawrence Erlbaum. ref John Saeed defines an idiom as words collocation collocated ... expression . The words develop a specialized meaning as an entity, as an idiom . Moreover, an idiom is an expression, word, or phrase whose sense means something different from what the words literally imply. The idiom beating around the bush means to hint or discuss obliquely nobody is literally beating any person or thing, and the bush is a metaphor . When a speaker uses an idiom, the listener ... well in some cases, when an idiom is translated into another language, either its meaning is changed ... and dry but never dry and high. This idiom in turn means that the person is left in their former condition ... most likely using the prefix in for not . He tried again with the idiom the spirit is willing but the flesh ... rather than a difficulty in translating the meaning of the idiom. Culturally relative An idiom is generally ... s Collegiate Dictionary , an idiom is an expression not readily analyzable from its grammatical ..., even expanding it further, stating that an idiom is an expression whose meaning is not predictable ... elements. Cite quote date January 2010 Unlike many other aspects of language, an idiom does not readily ... profits are up is not an idiom anything measurable can supplant profits crime is up , satisfaction ... Four character idiom Figure of speech List of idioms in the English language References Reflist ... 0 521 54542 6 External links Wiktionary idiom Category Idioms Category English idioms http www.biblicalstudies.org.uk ... Idioms Category Lexical units ar cs Idiom da Idiom de Redensart eo Idiotismo es Modismo fa fr Idiotisme hi id Idiom it Idiotismo he ka lb Riedensaart lt Frazeologizmas hu lland sult sz kapcsolat nl Idioom ja no Idiom pl Idiom pt Express o idiom tica ro Locu iune ru simple Idiom sk Idi m sl Idiom sr sh Idiom su Babasan fi Idiomi sv ... more details
wiktionary IdiomidiomIdiom may refer to In linguistics an idiom , being an expression whose meaning does not follow from the meaning of the individual words of which it is composed a vernacular , the language spoken locally as opposed to a standard language In computer science, a programming idiom is a low level design pattern Idiom Technologies, purchased in 2008 by SDL International In music, instrumental idiomIdiom Island from List of islands of Montana Idiom Neutral Idiom dictionary See also Idiomatic disambiguation lookfrom idiom intitle idiom disambiguation cleanup date February 2012 ja ru tt ... more details
orphan date June 2010 The Idiom Magazine 2005 Present is a free counterculture Underground Culture literary magazine based in New Jersey . The Idiom Magazine focuses on publishing poetry, prose, essays ... Keith Baird, Chris McIntyre title The Idiom Magazine Anthology Volumes I & II url http www.amazon.com ... The Idiom began for two reasons I wasn t getting published anywhere, and being an unpublished ..., but at least now I can say The Idiom is the biggest underground literary magazine in the state of New Jersey. The Idiom has been reviewed and written about in several magazines and newspapers, and reports of The Idiom showing up in people s houses and restaurant bathrooms are frequent. The http walkingenglish.blogspot.com ... of our advertising campaign. The Idiom is banned from the Douglas Campus of Rutgers University ... The Idiom at college level creative writing classes and annihilating Frank Walsh at the Underground Literary Alliance Poet Slam. ref name book blockquote Why Idiom? blockquote The Idiom was given ... of poeople see poetry as something only read and appreciated by those prestigious types, so The Idiom breaks those boundaries. The work in The Idiom is addressed to an audience that normally doesn t read poetry. The actual definition of the word, idiom , was also appealing. Wikipedia tells us that an idiom ... newspaper The Idiom Magazine volume 4 issue 3 pages 2 date February 2009 postscript None ref blockquote The First Issue blockquote In 2005 The first issue of The Idiom began through a professional ... poets The Idiom became an instant success....When the first volume of The Idiom made its impact in New ... fashion that The Idiom was presented, free and for the majority. ref name book blockquote Charge ... of distribution needed to be employed. The staff of The Idiom purchased a photocopy machine and The Idiom ... poets were needed, so writer Stephen McNamara was called. McNamara introduced The Idiom to http walkingenglish.blogspot.com Walking English Production of The Idiom increased since the merger of http ... more details
Infobox language name Idiom Neutral creator Waldemar Rosenberger created 1902 setting international auxiliary language fam1 constructed language s fam2 international auxiliary language int. auxiliary languages fam3 Volapuk posteriori a posteriori language , developed from a heavily revised form of Volap k speakers 0 iso2 art Idiom Neutral is an international auxiliary language , published in 1902 by the International Academy of the Universal Language Akademi Internasional de Lingu Universal under ... in the creation of a new language, which was named Idiom Neutral which means the neutral idiom ... of Idiom Neutral including an outline of the grammar were published in several European languages ... information . In 1908 the Akademi which had created Idiom Neutral effectively chose to abandon it in favor ... called Reform Neutral. Grammar The following is a rough sketch of Idiom Neutral grammar . It does not lay out every detail of grammar worked out for the language. The simple grammar of Idiom Neutral ... ruined or lost. Publikasion de idiom neutral interesero votr filio, kel kolekt postmarki, kause ist idiom es lingu praktikal pro korespondad ko kolektatori in otr landi. The publication of Idiom Neutral will interest your son, who collects postage stamps, because this idiom is a practical language ... of the Neutral Language Idiom Neutral , Neutral English and English Neutral, with a complete grammar ... Chapter on Idiom Neutral in Otto Jespersen s An International Language 1928 http www.langmaker.com db Idiom Neutral This site is experiencing technical difficulties. http www.pagef30.com 2010 05 complete grammar of idiom neutral.html Page F30 Complete grammar of Idiom Neutral Category International auxiliary languages de Idiom Neutral eo Idiom Neutral fr Idiom Neutral io Idiom neutral ia Idiom Neutral ie Idiom Neutral it Idiom Neutral nl Idiom Neutral ja no Idiom Neutral nov Idiom Neutral pl Idiom neutral pt Idiom Neutral ru tr Idiom Neutral uk ... more details
A programming idiom is a means of expressing a recurring construct in one or more programming language s. Generally speaking, a programming idiom is an expression of a simple task or algorithm that is not a built in feature in the programming language being used, or, conversely, the use of an unusual or notable feature that is built in to a programming language. The term can be used more broadly, however, to refer to complex algorithms or programming design pattern s. Knowing the idioms associated with a programming language and how to use them is an important part of gaining fluency in that language. Examples of Simple Idioms Incrementing a counter In a language like BASIC , the code to increment a counter by one is mundane code i i 1 code The C programming language C language , and many others derived from it, have language specific features that make this code shorter code language C i 1 i i 1 i same result i same result code small There is a difference between the first two expressions, which yield the new version of code i code , and the third, which yields the old version of code i code . When the expressions are used as isolated statements, as in this example, the yielded value is ignored. small Pascal programming language Pascal , as a keyword centric language, contains a built in procedure for the same operation code i i 1 Inc i same code These are the idiomatic ways of adding one to a counter . Swapping values between variables Main article Swap computer science In many ... example, but the following idiom uses the unusual appearance of the empty for loop condition to draw ... . The following idiom is commonly used to express this in Perl code language Perl my elements map 1 elements code Pimpl Idiom In OOP the implementation details of a API level class can be hidden in an own ... Idioms C programming idioms from Wikibooks. DEFAULTSORT Programming Idiom Category Programming idioms de Idiom Softwaretechnik ru sv Idiom programmering ... more details
unsourced date January 2012 for different styles of music Music genre Image Non idiomatic trombone part.png thumb right 350px Non idiomatic trombone part audio Non idiomatic trombone part.mid Play . Slide positions above the score indicate the large and swift change from the first to higher and then the highest positions required. In music , an instrumental idiom refers to music composition writing , part music parts , and musical performance performance , those being idiom atic or non idiomatic depending on how well each is suited to the specific instrument music instrument intended, in terms of both ease of playing and quality of music and the inherent tendencies and limitations of specific instruments. For example, the trombone is played with a slide, making it one of the few wind instruments capable of glissando or sliding. However, pitches are different harmonic harmonics from the Harmonic series music harmonic series on different slide positions. Thus, in the lower range, significant movement of the slide is required between positions, but for higher notes the player need only use the first four positions of the slide since the partials are closer together, allowing higher notes to be played in alternate positions. As an example, F4 at the bottom of the treble clef may be played in first, fourth or sixth position on a standard B music b trombone. There are cross instrument guidelines. For example, it is difficult to begin playing very quietly in the upper or lower range music range of an instrument, it taking more energy to produce sound with tone quality and or intonation often suffering. Use of extended technique s and writing in or beyond the highest or lowest range is not recommended, especially for student ensembles, unless writing for a specific performer. See also Musical tuning music stub Category Music performance Category Musical instruments ... more details
The word idiom was itself derived from the Greek language Greek http en.wiktionary.org wiki CE B9 CE B4 CE AF CF 89 CE BC CE B1 idioma , which can be variously translated as peculiarity , property , or peculiar phraseology . Hence the http en.wiktionary.org wiki word word has come to be used to describe the form of speech peculiar to a people or country and, in a narrower sense, to the forms peculiar to a limited district , group of people, or even the technical vocabulary peculiar to a profession such as medicine , the law or any of the sciences . This narrower sense is also described by the word dialect Gr. , also of Greek origin . A bilingual dictionary of idioms is a work of reference , containing a wide range of idiomatic expression language expression s in a language with proposals as to their nearest equivalents in another language it includes a comprehensive range of phrasal and prepositional http en.wiktionary.org wiki verb verbs , colloquialisms and proverb s, together with examples of their usage and translations or equivalent phrases in the reader s language and at the same time to achieve a coherent whole, both through the choice of http en.wiktionary.org wiki entry entries and their http en.wiktionary.org wiki translation translations . These two http en.wiktionary.org wiki Aim aims reflect the fact that such a dictionary is rather a lexicon than a simple dictionary in its narrow meaning, and is addressed to two categories of reader. In the first place it is addressed to students , by whom idiomatic phrases may often be misconstrued or mistranslated, representing at least a barrier to achieving ease with the use of idiomatic, or natural English ... is destined to provide a complementary tool for student s studies. Coming across an English idiom ..., almost word for word translations of each other perhaps representing human idiom , while at the other ... Lexicography Idiom Reference book Dictionary Bilingual dictionary Lexicon Dialect Saying Colloquialism ... more details
Four character idiom may refer to Chengyu , a type of traditional Chinese idiomatic expressions, most of which consist of four characters Yojijukugo , a Japanese lexeme consisting of four kanji disamb ... more details
Orphan date April 2010 No footnotes date September 2011 Infobox Company company name IDIOM company logo Image Idiom Logo.png company type Private company Private foundation 2005 location city Bangalore location country India key people Sonia Manchanda br Jacob Mathew br Girish Raj br Sonal Devraj br Mohammed Javed br Sunil Benipuri br Suresh Kumar br num employees 103 2010 discipline Business Design br Graphic Design br Space Design br Consulting homepage http www.idiom.co.in www.idiom.co.in Idiom Design and Consulting is a design firm and consultancy based in Bangalore, India . Idiom has designed over 100 brands and convert 10000000 sqft m2 of retail space. Citation needed date March 2010 History Idiom Design and Consulting was founded in 2005 with the merger of E sign and Tessaract. Sonia Manchand, a who founded E sign a design firm along with Anand Aurora and Jacob Mathew who were part of the founding team of Tessaract a space , furniture and product design firm came together with support from Kishore Biyani, CEO, Future Group. These NID graduates also brought in Girish Raj an MBA with experience in brand strategy and marketing. The firm currently employs 103 people that have experience in multidisciplinary design, research, consulting and advertising. Idiom also Houses Third I design, a design implementation company that partners with Idiom in nation wide efforts Idiom designs spaces, branding, signage and packaging in a variety of industries, including retail, education and media. Their clients include Manipal Group, Adlabs , Cisco Systems , Levis signature and Wipro . The company designed the Commonwealth Games 2010 identity and look. ref cite news url http www.televisionpoint.com news2008 newsfullstory.php?id 1199878113 title Idiom designs logo for Commonwealth Games ... Saha is Idiom CEO articleshow 1971502.cms http www.businessworld.in index.php Tomorrow s Designers.html ... DEFAULTSORT Idiom Design And Consulting Category Companies based in Bangalore Category Privately ... more details
wiktionary skeleton in the closet skeleton in the cupboard Skeleton in the closet or Skeleton in the cupboard is a Colloquialism colloquial phrase and idiom used to describe an undisclosed fact about someone which, if revealed, would have a negative impact on perceptions of the person. Cupboard is used in British English instead of the US English word closet . It is known to have been used as a phrase, at least as early as November 1816, in the monthly British journal The Eclectic Review ,page 468. ref Google books 9BA3AAAAYAAJ The Eclectic Review, Volume 6 page 468 ref It is listed in both the Oxford English Dictionary , and Webster s Dictionary , under the word skeleton . The Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary lists it under this but also as a separate idiom. See also wikisourcelang de Vern nftige Gedanken einer Hausmutter 10 Skeleton in the closet disambiguation , list of works with this or similar titles Closeted , describing nondisclosure of sexual or gender identity Elephant in the room , an English metaphorical idiom for an obvious truth that is being ignored or goes unaddressed References reflist Category English idioms ... more details
ref improve date February 2012 The Living Daylights is an archaic idiom in English believed to be early 18th century slang for somebody s human eye eye s, which was subsequently extended figuratively to refer to all vital senses. The earliest recorded reference to this term comes from the 1752 novel Amelia by Henry Fielding , in which a character states his readiness to physically assault a particular woman If the lady says another such words to me ... I will darken her daylights ref http books.google.com.au books?id 9re1vfFh04sC&pg PA48&lpg PA48&dq The American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms , by Christine Ammer ref . The idiom is now generally used only as part of a wider expression to express intensity in a negative manner, most commonly in the form to scare the living daylights out of someone or to beat the living daylights out of someone . References reflist Category English idioms ... more details
In software engineering , the Initialization on Demand Holder idiom design pattern computer science design pattern is a lazy initialization lazy loaded Singleton pattern singleton . The idiom can be implemented in both single threaded serial and concurrent environments, but care must be taken to correctly implement the idiom under concurrent conditions. Example Java Implementation This implementation is a well performing and concurrent implementation valid in all versions of Java. The original implementation from Bill Pugh see links below , based on the earlier work of Steve Quirk, has been modified to reduce the scope of tt LazyHolder.INSTANCE tt to private and to make the field final. source lang java public class Something private Something private static class LazyHolder public static final Something INSTANCE new Something public static Something getInstance return LazyHolder.INSTANCE source How it works The implementation relies on the well specified initialization phase of execution within the Java Virtual Machine JVM see section http java.sun.com docs books jls third edition html execution.html 44557 12.4 of Java Language Specification JLS for details. When the class tt Something tt is loaded by the JVM, the class goes through initialization. Since the class does not have any static variables to initialize, the initialization completes trivially. The static class definition tt LazyHolder tt within it is not initialized until the JVM determines that tt LazyHolder tt must be executed. The static class tt LazyHolder tt is only executed when the static method tt getInstance tt is invoked on the class tt Something tt , and the first time this happens the JVM will load and initialize ... instance. When not to use it Avoid this idiom if the construction of tt INSTANCE tt can fail. If construction ... initialization failures is a common criticism of this idiom and the singleton pattern in general. See also Singleton pattern Singleton Pattern Double checked locking Double Checked Locking Idiom Multiton ... more details
The erase remove idiom is a common C technique to eliminate elements that fulfill a certain criterion from a C Standard Library container ref name EffSTL cite book first Scott last Meyers authorlink Scott Meyers year 2001 title Effective STL 50 Specific Ways to Improve Your Use of the Standard Template Library publisher Addison Wesley ref ref name CS cite book first1 Herb last1 Sutter first2 Andrei last2 Alexandrescu authorlink1 Herb Sutter authorlink2 Andrei Alexandrescu year 2004 title C Coding Standards 101 Rules, Guidelines, and Best Practices publisher Addison Wesley ref ref name DDJ C C Users Journal, October 2001. http www.ddj.com cpp 184401446 STL Algorithms vs. Hand Written Loops ref . Motivation A common programming task is remove all elements that have a certain value or fulfill a certain criterion from a Collection computing collection . In C , this could be achieved using a hand written loop. It is, however, preferred to use an algorithm from the C Standard Library for such tasks ref name EffSTL ref name CS ref name DDJ . The tt algorithm tt library provides the tt remove tt and tt remove if tt algorithms for this. Because these algorithms operate on a range of elements denoted by two forward iterators, they have no knowledge of the underlying container or collection ref name EffSTL ref name Josuttis cite book first Nicolai last Josuttis authorlink Nicolai Josuttis year 1999 title C Standard Library A Tutorial and Reference publisher Addison Wesley ref . Thus, the elements are not actually removed from the range, merely moved to the end. When all the removed elements ... tt is combined with the container s tt erase tt member function, hence the name erase remove idiom ... remove idiom to remove all elements with the value 5 v.erase remove v.begin , v.end , 5 , v.end use the erase remove idiom to remove all odd numbers v.erase remove if v.begin , v.end , is odd , v.end use the erase remove idiom to remove all even numbers v.erase remove if v.begin , v.end , is even ... more details
noreferences date December 2010 For the game, see Don t Spill the Beans game . Don t spill the beans is an English language idiom That means to inopportunely or accidentally reveal a secret. There are a number of folk etymology hypotheses for its origin, some attributing it to the ancient Greek voting methodology of gathering beans in a jar, or to agricultural origins. However, the phrase first came into use in the early 20th century, in America, which tends to not fit in with these explanations. It is likely that the phrase originated within the American Great Depression , among the transient poor under culture the hobo culture . Sometimes the phrase may be changed to spilled the beans , which means, unlike the original phrase, to have given away or told a secret . Category English idioms ... more details
wiktionarypar sacred cow Sacred cow is an idiom , a figurative reference to Cattle in religion sacred cows in some religion s. This idiom is thought to originate in American English , ref name UK1 cite web title Sacred cow publisher The Phrase Finder url http www.phrases.org.uk meanings 309250.html accessdate 9 September 2010 ref although similar or even identical idioms occur in many other languages. The idiom is based on the popular understanding of the elevated place of cows in Hinduism and appears to have emerged in America in the late 19th century. ref name UK1 A literal Cattle in religion sacred cow or sacred bull is an actual cow or bull that is treated with sincere reverence. A figurative sacred cow is something else that is considered immune from question or criticism, especially unreasonably so. ref http dictionary.reference.com browse sacred 20cow sacred cow Definitions from Dictionary.com Bot generated title ref ref http www.phrases.org.uk meanings 309250.html Sacred cow Bot generated title ref Paradox There is an element of paradox in the concept of reverence for a sacred cow, as illustrated in a comment about the novelist V. S. Naipaul V. S. Naipaul ... has the ability to distinguish the death of an ordinary ox, which, being of concern to no one, may be put quickly out of its agony, from that of a sacred cow, which must be solicitously guarded so that it can die its agonizing death without any interference. ref cite book url http books.google.com books?id qYDzjGVWs0gC&pg PA185 title Reading against culture ideology and narrative in the Japanese novel last Pollack first David publisher Cornell University Press page 185 year 1992 isbn 9780801480355 ref Similar and related idioms Numerous irreverent witticism s have been published that refer to sacred cows, including Irreverence is our only sacred cow , motto of The Realist , an irreverent magazine. ref cite ... , sources on earliest uses DEFAULTSORT Sacred Cow Idiom Category American English idioms vocab ... more details
Wiktionary out of the blue File Trees sky.jpg thumb right A clear blue sky, framed by bare trees July 2005 . Out of the blue is an informal English language English idiom that describes an event that occurs unexpectedly, without any warning or preparation. Ref http www.goenglish.com OutOfTheBlue.asp Pocket English Idioms Out Of The Blue from GoEnglish.com ref It is used as an adverb . The blue in the phrase refers to the sky , one from which a sudden thunderstorm is unexpected. ref cite book title Oxford Dictionary of Idioms page 31 ref For example, if a father suddenly perishes in an accident and his daughter inherits an unexpected fortune, then the money came to her out of the blue. Longer and more explicit variations include out of the clear blue sky and out of a clear blue sky . ref http idioms.thefreedictionary.com come out of the blue ref vocab stub See also ex nihilo out of nothing References reflist Category English phrases Category English idioms he Out of the blue ... more details
Other uses Crime of the century disambiguation Crime of the century is an Idiom idiomatic phrase used to describe particularly sensational or notorious criminal cases. ref name Time http www.time.com time 2007 crimes Top 25 Crimes of the Century Time Magazine ref In the United States, it is often though not exclusively used in reference to the Lindbergh kidnapping . However, the phrase was in popular use much earlier in the 19th century and has been re used repeatedly ever since. ref name Time ref Henry Hunt. http www.archive.org details crimeofcenturyor00huntiala The crime of the century or, The assassination of Dr. Patrick Henry Cronin , H. L. & D. H. Kochersperger, 1889. via Internet Archive ref Other criminal cases that have also been described as the crime of the century include the Leopold and Loeb case ref Hal Higdon, Leopold and Loeb The Crime of the Century , University of Illinois Press , 1999 originally published 1975 . ISBN 0 252 06829 7. ref and the Richard Speck case. ref name mult6 cite book last Breo first Daniel L. authorlink coauthors William J. Martin title Crime of the Century Richard Speck and the Murder of Eight Student Nurses year 1993 publisher Bantam Books location New York, NY isbn 0 553 56025 5 pages ref See also Trial of the century References reflist DEFAULTSORT Crime of the century Category English phrases Category English idioms ... more details
Image George Lansbury cartoon Project Gutenberg eText 17653.png thumb 200px Under a cloud with a silver lining 1920 . A cartoon depicting George Lansbury . Captions Under a cloud with a golden lining Comrade Lansbury. Thanks to my faithful brolski not a drop has touched me. Loud crows from Daily Herald bird. Possibly reflecting an allegation of Soviet Union Soviet funding for the Independent Labour Party. Lansbury founded the Daily Herald. ref Cartoon from Punch magazine Punch , http www.gutenberg.org etext 17653 Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, September 22, 1920 by Various ref A silver lining is a metaphor for optimism in the common English language idiom Every cloud has a silver lining. ref http www.goenglish.com EveryCloudHasASilverLining.asp GoEnglish.com Idioms Every Cloud Has A Silver Lining Today s English Idioms ref Origin The origin of the phrase is traced to John Milton s Comus John Milton Comus 1634 with the lines, Cquote Was I deceiv d, or did a sable cloud br Turn forth her silver lining on the night? ref http www.phrases.org.uk bulletin board 18 messages 407.html Re Every cloud has a silver lining ref References references See also Silver Lining Is the glass half empty or half full? Category English idioms ... more details
about the idiom Get a life disambiguation Refimprove date May 2010 pp move indef dicdef date July 2010 Get a life is an idiom and catch phrase usually intended as a taunt , to indicate that the person being so addressed is devoting an inordinate amount of time to trivial or hopeless matters. The phrase has also appeared as a generally more emphatic variant of the taunt get a job ref name Clemmer000 Cite book title Growing the Distance Timeless Principles for Personal, Career, and Family Success first Jim last Clemmer year 1999 id ISBN 0968467504 ref Page needed date September 2010 and implies the addressee needs to go out and make their way in the world, without being supported by outside sources such as parent s or benefactor law benefactor s. It may also be directed at someone who is perceived as boring or single minded suggesting they acquire some other, more practical interests or hobby hobbies and get Courtship dates , find a employment job , or move into their own home. Similar terms include Get a job , Has no life , Get a car, house, girl, etc. It is also applied to so called workaholic s and others who are perceived as dedicated to their work out of labor of love as opposed to money or loyalty to the company but not taking the time to relax or enjoy life. Citation needed date May 2010 Sometimes the phrase is used to describe people who are viewed as officious or meddling in others affairs. It is another way of saying get your own life , or mind your own business . Citation needed date May 2010 Documented early use 1983 The first Oxford English Dictionary citation is from a January 1983 Washington Post article Gross me out, I mean, Valley Girl was, like, ohmigod, it was last year, fer sure I mean, get a life Say what? . ref Oxford English Dictionary ref 1986 Appears in Baby Anger page 48 as Get a life, people of New Jersey ref name printed as of Sean O Casey, Peter Hedges Baby Anger , p. 48 , 1986. Get a life, people of New Jersey ref 1986 The phrase was used ... more details
Unreferenced date March 2009 Heebie jeebies or heebie jeebies is an American English idiom used to describe depression or anxiety. This can be as an after effect of excessive alcohol intake see Delirium tremens or to describe a particular type of anxiety usually related to a certain person or place. For example, He gives me the heebie jeebies , meaning He makes me uncomfortably nervous . It can also refer to a particular form of intense apprehension, verging on horror, that is associated with opiate withdrawal . The sound of this term seems to hark back to earlier rhyming phrases, like Hocus Pocus magic hocus pocus and Mumbo Jumbo phrase mumbo jumbo , with a touch of the jitters thrown in. The meaning is more like the British term the screaming abdabs . Jeebie doesn t mean anything as an independent word but heebie is thought by some to be an anti semitic term. Heebie jeebies was coined at a time and place when there was a spate of new nonsense rhyming pairs, called rhyming reduplication s, the bee s knees , etc., i.e. 1920s USA. The term is widely attributed to Billy DeBeck . The first citation of it in print is certainly in a 1923 cartoon of his, in the 26th October edition of the New York American You dumb ox why don t you get that stupid look offa your pan you gimme the heeby jeebys Heebie jeebies caught on quickly and very soon began appearing in many newspapers and works of literature in the USA and, from 1927 onward, the UK. For example, here s an entry from the Van Nuys News , 6 November 1923, just a few days after de Beck s cartoon was published Bill Alton showed up poorly in center field. The boys seemed to have the heebie jeebies. The lack of any explanation in either of the above citations seems to imply that the term would have been known to the readership of both publications by the time of printing. The speed of take up of heebie jeebies , in a similar way ... Jeebies Idiom Category American English idioms ... more details
About the sports phrase the foodstuff Canned tomatoes In boxing , kickboxing or mixed martial arts , tomato can or simply tomato or can is an idiom for a fighter with poor or diminished skills at least when compared with the opponent they are placed against who may be considered an easy opponent to defeat, or a guaranteed win. Fights with tomato cans can be arranged to inflate the win total of a professional fighter. Characteristics A tomato can is usually a fighter with a poor record, whose skills are substandard or who lacks toughness or has a Chin boxing glass chin . Sometimes a formerly successful boxer who is past his prime and who has seen his skills diminish is considered a tomato can if he can no longer compete at a high level. When referring to a distinguished fighter, opponents with passable careers who simply aren t at the same level can also be considered tomato cans . Such an individual is an attractive opponent if his name still carries prestige but his diminished skills make him an easy conquest. Most fighters who are considered tomato cans are heavyweight s, because at lower weight classes one must maintain a certain level of fitness in order to make weight, whereas a heavyweight who once fought at a trim 205 pounds could conceivably gain 150 pounds and still fight in the same division. One characteristic which may account for the use of the tomato can metaphor for a bad boxer is the tendency to leak tomato juice i.e. blood when battered. Tomato cans are similar to Job professional wrestling jobbers in professional wrestling in that they serve to enhance the stature of someone the promotion uses to draw a crowd. Surprises and upsets Victory over a tomato can is not a certainty. Journeyman sports Journeyman boxers generally regarded as tomato cans have been known to provide surprising challenges to champions and in several instances, cause shocking upset s against supposedly superior opponents. On March 24, 1975, Muhammad Ali faced Chuck Wepner , a li ... more details
Wiktionary it takes two to tango It takes two to tango is a common idiom atic expression which suggests something in which more than one person or other entity are paired in an inextricably related and active manner, occasionally with negative connotations. ref Hirsch, Eric. 2002 . http books.google.com books?id GAzOg4eQl2YC&pg PA52&dq it takes two to tango&lr The new dictionary of cultural literacy, p. 52, ref The tango dance tango is a dance which requires two partners moving in relation to each other, sometimes in tandem, sometimes in opposition. ref Howell, Anthony. http tls.timesonline.co.uk article 0,,25351 2141795,00.html Tango with an axe to grind, The Times Literary Supplement. April 19, 2006. ref The meaning of this expression has been extended to include any situation in which the two partners are by definition understood to be essential as in, a marriage with only one partner ceases to be a marriage. History The phrase originated in a song, Takes Two to Tango song Takes Two to Tango , which was written and composed in 1952 by Al Hoffman and Dick Manning . The lyrics and melody were popularized by singer Pearl Bailey s 1952 recording. ref name mieder125 Mieder, Wolfgang. 1997 . http books.google.com books?id AeC4DCmfaAUC&printsec frontcover&dq two to tango&lr &client firefox a&vq 22The Concise Oxford dictionary of proverbs 22&source gbs book citations r&cad 1 0 PPA125,M1 The Politics of Proverbs From Traditional Wisdom to Proverbial Stereotypes, p. 125. ref The phrase was reported widely in the international media when Ronald Reagan quipped about Russian American relations during a 1982 presidential news conference. ref name mieder125 Reagan said, For ten years d tente was based on words by them the Russians and not any words to back them up. And we need some action that they it takes two to tango that they want to tango also. ref Transcript of President s News Conference on Foreign and Domestic Affairs, New York Times. November 12, 1982. ref Since that time ... more details
File BroadwayMelodyy1929.jpg thumb Poster advertising the film The Broadway Melody , from which the idiom is derived. All singing, all dancing is an idiom meaning full of vitality , or, more recently, full featured . It originated with advertisements for the 1929 musical film The Broadway Melody , which proclaimed the film to be All talking all singing all dancing . ref name martin cite web last Martin first Gary title All singing, all dancing work The Phrase Finder url http www.phrases.org.uk meanings 28200.html accessdate 2009 09 12 ref Recently, the idiom has come to be used to describe high tech gadgetry such as smartphone s, indicating that the product is very advanced, or has an abundance of features. For example, from a 1995 article in The Daily Telegraph ref name martin quote Satellites as small as a box of cornflakes can be launched at little cost by riding piggyback with larger satellites. A handful of these miniaturized satellites microsatellite s would be used instead of a single all singing all dancing platform bristling with instruments. All Singing, All Dancing is the title of a The Simpsons season 9 ninth season episode of the animated television show The Simpsons . The phrase also appears in the 1996 novel Fight Club novel Fight Club , and the 1999 Fight Club film based on it, in which the character Tyler Durden excoriates his disciples, You re the all singing, all dancing crap of the world. References references Vocab stub Category English idioms ... more details
Other uses The Quick and the Dead disambiguation The Quick and the Dead is an English phrase originating in the Christianity Christian Bible and popularized by the Apostles Creed , one of the earliest creed statements of faith in the Christian religion and still one of the most widely used in worship . The phrase is found in two passages in the King James Bible King James version of the Bible in the Acts of the Apostles, Acts 10 42 and also in the First Epistle of Peter , which reads For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you Who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the quick and the dead . 1 Peter 4 3 5 This passage advises the reader of the perils of following outsiders in not obeying God in Christianity God s will. Specifically it warns that those who sin , both the quick and the dead , will be judged by Jesus Christ . In other words, it implies that God is able to act on the sins of a person whether that person is alive quick or has passed into the afterlife dead . In the Apostles Creed the phrase appears in the following passage taken from the Book of Common Prayer . He ascended into heaven, And sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty From thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead. Language The use of the word quick in this context is an archaic usage because of the publication of the King James Bible in 1611. In this context the word specifically means living or alive a meaning still retained in the quick of the fingernails . ref Definition of quick http dictionary.reference.com browse quick. See esp. 14,15. ref It is derived from the Proto Germanic kwikwaz , which in turn was from a variant of the Proto Indo European language Proto Indo European form g sup w sup ih sub 3 ... more details
Nolife may refer to Get a life idiom Get a life idiom , an American English idiom and catchphrase usually intended as a taunt Nolife TV channel , a French TV channel dab ... more details
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