Author Archive
Idioms and Phrases
20 August 2008M
Make my day - Meaning: Carry on with what you are doing - it will give me an excuse to behave badly.
A Mickey Finn - Meaning: A sedative (or sometimes in the US a purgative) drug surreptitiously slipped into someone’s drink.
Men in suits - Meaning: Businessmen/bureaucrats/soldiers and the like who follow convention and the [...]
IDIOMS AND PHRASES
18 August 2008K
Keep time - Meaning: to stay even with a musical beat.
Kangaroo court - Meaning: An unauthorized, bogus court.
Keep a stiff upper lip - Meaning: Remain resolute and unemotional in the face of adversity, or even tragedy.
Keep your powder dry - Meaning: Be prepared and save your resources until they are needed.
Knock off - [...]
Idioms and Phrases
17 August 2008I
I have not slept one wink - Meaning: I have not slept at all.
In a quandary - Meaning: Faced with a dilemma - perplexed and uncertain what to do.
In a trice - Meaning: In a single moment, with no delay.
It’s all grist to the mill - Meaning: Everything can be used to move toward a [...]
IDIOMS AND PHRASES
12 August 2008G
Get off on the wrong foot - Meaning: Make a bad start to a project or relationship.
Get used to it - Meaning: Accept that what you want isn’t going to be.
Get your feet wet - Meaning: To get your first experience of something.
Game of two halves - Meaning: Circumstances have changed [...]
Proverbs
11 August 2008Between the devil and the deep sea
To choose between two equally bad alternatives in a serious dilemma.
Where there’s a will there’s a way
When a person really wants to do something, he will find a way of doing it.
A burnt child dreads fire
A bad experience or a horrifying incident may scar one’s attitude or thinking for [...]
IDIOMS AND PHRASES
11 August 2008E
Excuse my French - Meaning: Please forgive my swearing.
End of story - Meaning: The talking is over - there’s no more to [...]
Jokes….read and enjoy
10 August 2008A Sardarji finds himself in dire trouble. His business has gone bust
and he’s in serious financial trouble. He’s so desperate that he
decides to ask Bhagwan for help.
He goes into the temple and begins to pray……….. “Oh Bhagwan,
please help me, I’ve lost my business and if I don’t get some money,
I’m going to lose my [...]
IDIOMS AND PHRASES
10 August 2008C
Call a spade a spade Meaning: To speak plainly - to describe something as it really is.
Chip on his shoulder Meaning: To harbour a grudge.
Cold shouldered Meaning: Be treated in an offhand unfriendly way.
Come hell or high water [...]
IDIOMS AND PHRASES
8 August 2008Idioms are words, phrases, or expressions that cannot be taken literally. In other words, when used in everyday language, they have a meaning other than the basic one you would find in the dictionary. Every language has its own idioms. Learning them makes understanding and using a language a lot easier and [...]
PERL - Practical Extraction and Report Language
8 August 2008History of Perl
It was developed in the mid 1980’s by Larry Wall as a replacement for an overtaxed awk. First version of Perl got released to a large group of users in 1988. It still remains “Freeware” but it is not associated [...]
