English 151207
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- on your toes
- Someone or something that keeps you on your toes forces you to continue directing all your attention and energy to what you are doing:
I work with people who are half my age so that keeps me on my toes. - aware and energetic as a result of being busy and challenged:
Teaching four different subjects keeps you on your toes.
- Someone or something that keeps you on your toes forces you to continue directing all your attention and energy to what you are doing:
- Now it is time to pick up the pace.
pick up the pace
to speed up the tempo; to increase the rate that something is being done. We are going to have to pick up the pace of activity around here if we are to get the job done. - play into the hands of
Act so as to give an advantage to an opponent, as in The senator played right into the hands of her opponents when she backed that unpopular amendment to the tax bill - his is a big jump so be sure you do this Study Drill as best you can before moving on.
- square away
v. 1. to finish a project or job. 2. To tidy up an area. orig. military. used by people who are hard for The Guard.
Well, boys, just get those PM's squared away, and you can get early liberty.
If you do not understand this, go back through and use the comment trick to get it squared away in your mind. - Rather than tell you how to do it exactly, I'm going to tell you what you should install, and then you tell you to watch the video that accompanies this exercise and follow along.
- arrogance annoyance
- under the hood
adjective
a metaphorical area that contains the underlying implementation of something - e.g. a piece of hardware, a piece of software, an idea, etc.
Let's now look under the hood to see how the software goes about transmitting data so quickly.
To understand how it really works we need to look under the hood.
Does your excursion call for more power than the 173-horsepower four-cylinder under the hood?
See more words with the same meaning: computer slang.
Last edited on Apr 17 2013. Submitted by WalterGR (via TheJargonFile) on Aug 14 2009.
inside the chassis of a piece of equipment, such as a computer.
Under the hood, this baby has quad-core AMD Phenom! - got·cha (gŏch′ə)
interj.
Used to indicate understanding or to signal the fact of having caught or defeated another.
n.
A game or endeavor in which one party seeks to catch another out, as in a mistake or lie.
