Book of Idioms, Episode 18

Something that SPEAKS VOLUMES is something visual, a situation, or an action that reveals a lot of information or reveals the truth about something. It is *not* something spoken. RantSports.com: <<The good news for Denver is that Von Miller is back and things should start trending in a better direction. They’re still the team to beat in the AFC and in the driver’s seat for a top spot in the playoffs. But when you look at how Sunday night’s game [turned] out, it speaks volumes about the Broncos as a whole. To beat the best, their defense has to get better.>>

IN THE DRIVER'S SEAT is in an advantageous position, in control.


Something that SPEAKS VOLUMES is something visual, a situation, or an action that reveals a lot of information or reveals the truth about something. It is *not* something spoken. RantSports.com: <<The good news for Denver is that Von Miller is back and things should start trending in a better direction. They’re still the team to beat in the AFC and in the driver’s seat for a top spot in the playoffs. But when you look at how Sunday night’s game [turned] out, it speaks volumes about the Broncos as a whole. To beat the best, their defense has to get better.>>

IN THE DRIVER'S SEAT is in an advantageous position, in control.


SHOUT-OUT (noun): public mention, a public statement of thanks. I believe this is American English.

WARTS AND ALL: with flaws included. The Australian: << THE Tasmanian government says a "warts and all" report into the state's disastrous January bushfires will be released to the public in coming weeks.
The government has received the independent report of former South Australian police commissioner Malcolm Hyde into the state's worst fires in 50 years.
Emergency services minister David O'Byrne says cabinet is considering its findings.
"It's a warts and all view of what happened during the bushfire season and it's important the Tasmanian community looks at that document and that we learn from it," Mr O'Byrne told reporters in Hobart.>>


RUNNING ON FUMES: continuing to work or stay awake when you are completely exhausted. Said of a person, although the expression comes from the last fumes of gasoline in an empty tank in a car. I went out to dinner with my friend the other night. She said, "I'm glad to see you, but I was up until 4 a.m. last night, so I'm running on fumes right now."


GET OUT OF HAND: become uncontrollable. This is said of a situation, not a person.
Yahoo UK: << Coronation Street: Knicker Factory feud gets out of hand.

After weeks of bitter rivalry, it looks as though things are about to come to a head over at Underworld… and with Peter still throwing his weight around, it looks as though Michelle might have finally had enough. "Right now, I'd rather hammer nails into the floor with my head than sit in that office," she says to Ryan. And with Peter on her case all the time, you can hardly blame her.>>


To BE ONE SOMEONE'S CASE is to be nagging someone persistently.

CLEAN HOUSE: eliminate corruption or inefficiency in an organization.
Jakarta Globe:
<<New Generation of Local Leaders Cleaning House
It’s a busy weekday morning and Ridwan Kamil, the recently inaugurated mayor of Bandung, has just arrived for his first day on the new job the same way he has always gotten around the traffic-choked West Java capital — by bicycle.
Ridwan, an internationally acclaimed architect with no prior political experience, is part of a generation of new local leaders taking office one region at a time, determined to sweep out all vestiges of their predecessors’ stagnant and often corruption-riddled bureaucratic systems.>>

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