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  • portable scheme debugger — (PSD) A package for source code debugging of R4RS-compliant Scheme under GNU Emacs by Kellom ?ki Pertti <[email protected]>. Version 1.1. Distributed under GNU GPL. It works with scm, Elk and Scheme->C.
  • research and development — the part of a commercial company's activity concerned with applying the results of scientific research to develop new products and improve existing ones
  • rocky mountain whitefish — mountain whitefish.
  • see someone hanged first — to refuse absolutely to do what one has been asked
  • set the wheels in motion — If someone sets the wheels in motion, they take the necessary action to make something start happening.
  • six nations championship — the annual competition involving national sides representing England, France, Ireland, Italy, Scotland, and Wales. Until the admission of Italy in 2000, it was known as the Five Nations Championship
  • sodium hexametaphosphate — See under Calgon.
  • stab someone in the back — If you say that someone has stabbed you in the back, you mean that they have done something very harmful to you when you thought that you could trust them. You can refer to an action of this kind as a stab in the back.
  • take someone at his word — to assume that someone means, or will do, what he or she says
  • the last of the mohicans — a historical novel (1826) by James Fenimore Cooper.
  • the ravages of something — the destructive effects of something
  • the realm of possibility — If you say that something is not beyond the realms of possibility, you mean that it is possible.
  • the suffragette movement — a movement advocating of the extension of the franchise to women, as in Britain at the beginning of the 20th century
  • the whole shooting match — everything; the whole lot
  • thompson sub-machine-gun — a .45 calibre sub-machine-gun
  • to break someone's heart — If someone breaks your heart, they make you very sad and unhappy, usually because they end a love affair or close relationship with you.
  • to carry sth to extremes — to overdo something
  • to keep something at bay — If you keep something or someone at bay, or hold them at bay, you prevent them from reaching, attacking, or affecting you.
  • to lay something to rest — If you lay something such as fears or rumours to rest or if you put them to rest, you succeed in proving that they are not true.
  • to make boundary changes — to change the boundaries of parliamentary constituencies, because of population shifts
  • to set fire to something — If you set fire to something or if you set it on fire, you start it burning in order to damage or destroy it.
  • to show someone the door — If someone shows you the door, they ask you to leave because they are angry with you.
  • tri-nations championship — (from 1996–2011) the annual tournament in which the national sides representing Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa compete; in 2012 Argentina entered and the competition became the Rugby Championship
  • trisodium orthophosphate — a sodium salt of orthophosphoric acid having the formula Na3PO4
  • until the cows come home — the mature female of a bovine animal, especially of the genus Bos.
  • when push comes to shove — to press upon or against (a thing) with force in order to move it away.
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