inside and outside
The inside of a **** and the outside of a gaol.
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inside baseball
Technical details or nuances of a subject
inside job
Done by someone within an organization or group
inside joke
A joke or humorous reference understood only by a specific group of people
inside scoop
Secret or exclusive information about something
inside the box
Thinking conventionally or traditionally
installed base
Existing customers or users of a product or service
instant sunshine
Suntain oil or bronzing oil.
instead of
In place of something or someone
Instructions to the Committee
A means em- powering a Committee of the House of Commons to do what it would not otherwise be empowered to do.
insult one's intelligence
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
interesting
"to be in an INTERESTING situation," applied to females when enceinte.
internal evidence
That derived from conformity with what is known.
interpret away
To explain or justify something in a way that distorts its original meaning
into
"hold my hat, Jim, I’ll be INTO him," i.e., I will fight him. In this sense equivalent to pitch INTO, or slip INTO.
into detail
To discuss or explain something thoroughly and carefully
into every life a little rain must fall
Difficulties are inevitable in life
into power
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
into thin air
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
investment in something
Expenditure of money or resources to gain future benefits
Invincible Doctor
William of Occam (d. 1347), or Ockham (a village in Surrey), Franciscan friar and scholastic philosopher. He was also called Doctor Singularis, and Princeps Nomin- alium, for he was the reviver of nominalism.
Invisible Empire
See Ku KLUX KLAN. Divisibility, according to fable, might be obtained in a multitude of ways.
inviso
invisible
Invita Minerva
Against the grain. Thus, Charles Kean acted comedy invita Minerva, his forte lying another way. Sir Philip Sidney attempted the Horatian metres in English verse invita Minerva. The phrase is from Horace's Ars Poetica, I, 385— Tu nihil invita dices fadesve Minerva (Beware of attempting anything for which nature has not fitted you).
invite
An invitation—a corruption used by stuck-up people of mushroom origin. Often used, also, by people who know better, from their desire for slang of any kind.
invited to the cookout
accepted or included in a social group or activity
involvement in something
participation or engagement in an activity
ion
I don't.
Ionian Mode
A species of mediaeval church music in the key of C major, in imitation of the ancient Greek mode so called. It was the last of the "authentic" church modes, and corresponded to the modern major diatonic scale. Cp. GREGORIAN.
ipsal dixal
Cockney corruption of ipse dixit—said of one’s simple uncorroborated assertion.
Iraq Command
Constituted in Sept. 1942, with headquarters at Baghdad, its functions were (a) to stand as a bulwark against a possible German drive through the Caucasus, and (6) to protect and operate the routes by which supplies were sent to Russia. The Command was wound up in 1946.
irish american
An Irishman who has been for some time resident in the States; sometimes a man born in America of Irish parents. The Irish American body is a power in the United States, and is the fount-spring as well as the maintaining power of all Fenianism.
Irish apricot
A potato.
irish apricots
Potatoes. It is a common joke against the Irish vessels, to say they are loaded with fruit and timber, that is, potatoes and broomsticks.
irish assurance
A bold forward behaviour: as being dipt in the river Styx was formerly supposed to render persons invulnerable, so it is said that a dipping in the river Shannon totally annihilates bashfulness; whence arises the saying of an impudent Irishman, that he has been dipt in the Shannon.
Irish banjo
A shovel.
irish beauty
A woman with two black eyes.
Irish fruit
A potato.
Irish hint
A hint or warning given in a joking or indirect manner
irish legs
Thick legs, jocularly styled the Irish arms. It is said of the Irish women, that they have a dispensation from the pope to wear the thick end of their legs downwards.
irish proverbs
Folk sayings from Ireland
irish rats rhymed to death
It was once a prevalent opinion that rats in pasturages could be extirpated by anathematizing them in rhyming verse or by metrical charms. This notion is frequently alluded to by ancient authors. Thus, Ben Jonson says : "Rhyme them to death, as they do Irish rats" (Poetaster)', Sir Philip Sidney says: "Though I will not wish unto you ...
irish stew
A dish made by stewing together meat, onions, and potatoes. Called "Irish" from the predominance of potatoes.
Irish the doctrine of the Trinity
According to the elder Pliny no serpent will touch this plant.
irish theatre
The temporary prison, guard-room, or lock-up in a barracks. The fond fancy of the soldier supplies it with other figurative appellations, as "the mill," "the jigger," "the house that Jack built." In Edinburgh Castle it is termed "the dryroom."
irish toyles
Thieves who carry about pins, laces, and other pedlars wares, and under the pretence of offering their goods to sale, rob houses, or pilfer any thing they can lay hold of.
iron
Money in general. To polish the king's iron with one's eyebrows; to look out of grated or prison windows, or, as the Irishman expresses them, the iron glass windows. Iron doublet; a prison. See STONE DOUBLET.
Iron Cage
The Bishop of Verdun, who in- vented the Iron Cage, too small to allow the person confined in it to stand upright or lie at full length, was the first to be shut up in one; and Cardinal La Balue, who recommended them to Louis XI, was himself confined in one for ten years.
Iron Curtain
A phrase used to describe the almost impenetrable secrecy with which all happenings in the U.S.S.R. or countries dominated by Russia are concealed from the rest of the world. The phrase was first used by Count Schwenn von Krosigk, the German statesman, in 1945.
iron eagle
a strict, demanding, or intimidating person
Iron Gates
The narrowing of the Danube between Orsova and Turnu Severin in S.W.
Iron Guard
The title adopted by the Fascist party in Rumania.
iron house
prison
iron man
A dollar.
Iron sharpens iron. (Whiting, 1997 p. 235)
Competition or interaction improves performance or character
Iron Shroud
Ludovico Sforza, who invented the Iron Shroud, was the first to suffer death by this horrible torture.
ironing board
a flat surface for ironing clothes
ironmonger's shop
To keep an ironmonger's shop by the side of a common, where the sheriff sets one up; to be hanged in chains. Iron-bound; laced. An iron-bound hat; a silver-laced hat.
irons in the fire
Having multiple projects or tasks underway at the same time
irrational number
A definite number not expressible in a definite number of digits, as the root of a number that cannot be exactly extracted.