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 keep an ear to the ground — If you keep or have your ear to the ground, you make sure that you find out about the things that people are doing or saying. 
 
 khakass autonomous region — an autonomous region in the Russian Federation, in S Siberia. 19,161 sq. mi. (49,627 sq. km). Capital: Abakan. 
 
 land of the little sticks — the part of the north of Canada that lies south of the tree line but contains only stunted evergreens or dwarf deciduous trees. 
 
 make a thing about/out of — If you make a thing of something or make a thing about it, you talk about it or do it in an exaggerated way, so that it seems much more important than it really is. 
 
 make bricks without straw — a block of clay hardened by drying in the sun or burning in a kiln, and used for building, paving, etc.: traditionally, in the U.S., a rectangle 2.25 × 3.75 × 8 inches (5.7 × 9.5 × 20.3 cm), red, brown, or yellow in color. 
 
 make short work of sb/sth — If you make short work of someone or something, you deal with them or defeat them very quickly. 
 
 not know what has hit one — to be completely taken by surprise 
 
 petropavlovsk-kamchatskiy — seaport in E Asian Russia, on Kamchatka Peninsula: pop. 210,000 
 
 pick/take up the gauntlet — If you pick up the gauntlet or take up the gauntlet, you accept the challenge that someone has made. 
 
 poacher turned gamekeeper — someone whose occupation or behaviour is the opposite of what it previously was, such as a burglar who now advises on home security 
 
 portable network graphics — (file format)   /ping/ (PNG) An extensible file format for the lossless, portable, well-compressed storage of raster images. PNG provides a patent-free replacement for GIF and can also replace many common uses of TIFF. Indexed-colour, greyscale and truecolour images are supported, plus an optional alpha channel. Sample depths range from 1 to 16 bits. PNG is designed for on-line viewing applications, such as the World Wide Web, so it is fully streamable with a progressive display option. PNG is robust, providing both full file integrity checking and simple detection of common transmission errors. Also, PNG can store gamma correction and chromaticity data for improved colour matching on heterogeneous platforms. 
 
 psychiatric social worker — (in Britain) a qualified person who works with mentally-ill people and their families, based in a psychiatric hospital, child guidance clinic, or social services department area team, and who may also be an approved social worker 
 
 put on one's thinking cap — to ponder a matter or problem 
 
 saddle block (anesthesia) — a method of spinal anesthesia, often used during obstetric delivery, that produces anesthesia in that area of the body that would be in contact with a saddle during horseback riding 
 
 sequenced packet exchange — (networking, protocol)   (SPX) A transport layer protocol built on top of IPX. SPX is used in Novell NetWare systems for communications in client/server application programs, e.g. BTRIEVE (ISAM manager). SPX is not used for connections to the file server itself; this uses NCP. It has been extended as SPX-II. SPX/IPX perform equivalent functions to TCP/IP. 
 
 take sth under advisement — If someone in authority takes a matter under advisement, they decide that the matter needs to be considered more carefully, often by experts. 
 
 take the queen's shilling — to enlist in the army 
 
 take the sting out of sth — If something takes the sting out of a situation, it makes it less unpleasant. 
 
 take up the cudgels (for) — to come to the defense (of) 
 
 thank one's (lucky) stars — to be thankful for what appears to be good luck 
 
 the knives are out for sb — If a lot of people want something unpleasant to happen to someone, for example if they want them to lose their job, you can say that the knives are out for that person. 
 
 the protestant work ethic — a belief in the moral value of work, associated with Protestant Christianity 
 
 through the looking-glass — a story for children (1871) by Lewis Carroll: the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. 
 
 to drink someone's health — When you drink to someone's health or drink their health, you have a drink as a sign of wishing them health and happiness. 
 
 to have your work cut out — If you say that you will have your work cut out to do something, you mean that it will be a very difficult task. 
 
 to keep a watchful eye on — If you keep a watchful eye on someone or something, you watch carefully to make sure there are no problems. 
 
 to sound the death knelll — If you say that something sounds the death knell for a particular person or thing, you mean it will cause that person or thing to fail, end, or cease to exist. 
 
 to take something as read — If you take something as read, you accept it as true or right and therefore feel that it does not need to be discussed or proved. 
 
 track and field athletics — a collection of sporting events that involve running, sprinting, throwing, jumping and walking 
 
 transient ischemic attack — a brief vascular spasm in which a partially blocked artery impedes blood flow to the brain, resulting in symptoms such as impaired vision, dizziness, numbness, or unconsciousness. Abbreviation: TIA. 
 
 vertical redundancy check — (storage, communications)   (VRC) An error checking method performed on one 8-bit ASCII character, where the 8th bit is used as the parity bit. The resulting parity bit is constructed by XORing the word. The result is a "1" if there is an odd number of 1s, and a "0" if there is an even number of 1s in the word. This method is unreliable because if an odd number of bits are distorted, the check will not detect the error. The Longitudinal Redundancy Check is an improvement.