“Well, you are both a little old to face such a punishment, but besides that surely you must understand I cannot possibly cane you; you are a fully mature young man. If caning was to be administered it would have to be Mr Lawrence, but as we have ascertained he is not here at th...
22. Sports The swerving of a ball from a straight path of flight, as in baseball or cricket. 23. Sports The beginning of a race. 24. Sports a. A fast break. b. The separation after a clinch in boxing. 25. Games The opening shot that scatters the grouped balls in billiards or ...
hold the line To maintain the existing position or state of affairs: had to hold the line on salary increases. hold the phone Slang To stop doing what one is engaged in doing. Often used in the imperative: Hold the phone! Let's end this argument. hold water To stand up to critical...
It was a straight left against a slogging ruffian. I emerged as you see me. Mr. Woodley went home in a cart. So ended my country trip, and it must be confessed that, however enjoyable, my day on the Surrey border has not been much more profitable than your own." The Th...
So somehow after unbelievable hours on the debugger, we finally managed to draft working algorithms for both straight-line depreciation and reducing-balance depreciation. We also added unit tests using a fake data generator. Also we tested the results against live data and could see similarities bet...
Cisco powered device works only with straight cable and not with crossover one. Verify that the total cable length from the switch front panel to the powered device is not more than 100 meters. Disconnect the Ethernet cable from the switch port. Us...
Within this shell, all commands shown in the introductory text are available in the search path and all SDE-specific environment variables are set to make compiling and running P4 programs straight forward.The working directory of the SDE shell is inherited from the calling shell as is the ...
interests, the right wing reactionaries they enlist and buy off with low account stories of their independent objective merit, while the liberals, with the same line of independent, objective merit, are bought off more cheaply, i.e., provided more straight forward license (licentiousness) to ...
turn in, put on - carry out (performances); "They turned in a splendid effort"; "They turned in top jobs for the second straight game" bear, turn out - bring forth, "The apple tree bore delicious apples this year"; "The unidentified plant bore gorgeous flowers" create from raw materia...
I'll come straight to the point. You didn't get the job. The point of doing something is the reason for doing it. What was the point of asking him when you knew he'd say no? I don't see the point of learning all this boring stuff. 3. 'no point' If you say that there is...