Do You Know These Tech Idioms?

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    • Publish Date: Jan 15 2018 12:58PM
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    • Updated Date: Feb 19 2018 1:26PM
Do You Know These Tech Idioms?

Pull the plug
Meaning: to do something that prevents an activity from continuing.

Example: If the viewing figures drop much more, the TV network will probably pull the plug on the whole series.

Blow a fuse
Meaning: To blow a fuse means that someone suddenly gets very angry, perhaps over something unexpected. 
Example: For all my experience, I blew a fuse in the quarter-final and could have been sent off.

Bright as a button
Meaning: intelligently alert and lively.
Example:  Ted's as bright as a button, so he'll find a solution to this problem.  

Cog in the machine
Meaning: If you describe someone as a cog in a machine or wheel, you mean that they are a small part of a large organisation or group.
Example: I decided to set up my own business because I was tired of just being a cog in a machine.

To be on the same wavelength
Meaning: (of two or more people) to think in a similar way and understand each other well.
Example: What makes the problem worse is that Howard and Tina are not on the same wavelength about how to deal with it.

Well-oiled machine
Meaning: Something that operates capably through the effective coordination of many parts. 
Example: The ruling party is a well-oiled political machine. 

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gopi Sree Narayana Vidya Bhavan

Pull the plug Meaning: to do something that prevents an activity from continuing. Example: If the viewing figures much more, the TV network will probably pull the plug on the whole series. Blow a fuse Meaning: To blow a fuse means that someone suddenly gets very angry, perhaps over something unexpected. Example: For all my experience, I blew a fuse in the quarter-final and could have been sent off. Bright as a button Meaning: intelligently alert and lively. Example: Ted''s as bright as a

Amogha M Koulapure STJ PU COLLEGE

This is a list of idioms about technology and science acid test bells and whistles blow a fuse bright as a button button (up) one''s lip click with someone or something cog in the machine dad fetch my buttons have something down to a science hit the panic button in tune (with somebody/something) it''s not rocket science on the same wavelength pull the plug push someone''s buttons reinvent the wheel run out of steam Spuntnick moment the dismal science well-oiled machine

Amogha M Koulapure STJ PU COLLEGE

a cog in the machine Someone or something that is functionally necessary but of small significance or importance within a larger operation or organization.

Amogha M Koulapure STJ PU COLLEGE

be as bright as a button To be intelligent and a quick-thinker.

Amogha M Koulapure STJ PU COLLEGE

pull the plug means prevent something from happening or continuing. To terminate something end support or cooperation. To terminate various mechanical and electronic efforts being used to keep life in a moribund patient.

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