Takes a Bow, idiom, soot sooty, an about face. But as the shame closet grows, the task of excavation or organization becomes too daunting to contemplate.

A shame closet is that spot in your home where you cram the stuff that has nowhere else to go. It doesn’t have to be a closet. It can be a garage or a room or a chest of drawers or all of them at once. Whatever the space, it is defined by the absence of choices about what goes into it. There are things you need in there. There are things you will never need in there. But as the shame closet grows, the task of excavation or organization becomes too daunting to contemplate.

 But does not Alfred Wallace relate in his famous book on the Malay Archipelago
how, amongst the Aru Islanders, he discovered in an old and naked savage
with a sooty skin a peculiar resemblance to a dear friend at home?

Waiting 80 Years, Diva Takes a Bow

take a bow

Acknowledge praise or applause, as in The conductor asked the composer to take a bow. This idiom uses bow in the sense of "inclining the body or head as a token of salutation." [c. 1800]
所以研究文法的時候，不可不知。說話的時候，卻要注意習慣與實效。　　
我今揀出兩條來，如　　　It is me.　　
納氏說：文法家反對此句，以為必須說It is I。　　
但是文法家儘管反對，我們儘管維持。因為It is me，是個成立的習語，established Idiom. 　　　
you will find that you were mistaken.　　
　you will find that you mistook it.　　
納氏說「第二句按文法是對的，但是以不用為是，因為與習語衝突 against idiom。」　






Adobe Bows in Apple Feud

Adobe said it plans to stop development of its Flash player software for mobile devices, an about face and concession to rival Apple in a long-running standards battle.

History hidden beneath the surface

KENTA SUJINO, THE ASAHI SHIMBUN

2009/12/11

History hidden beneath the surface (KENTA SUJINO/ THE ASAHI SHIMBUN)

Media representatives are taken on a tour of a railway tunnel in Kashiwara, Osaka Prefecture, that was believed to have collapsed nearly 80 years ago. A 66-meter section and a 49-meter section of the Kamenose tunnels, built in 1892 and 1924, respectively, were discovered in November 2008 during the excavation of a new tunnel, according to the land ministry. The brick tunnels, which are about 5 meters high and 4 meters wide, remain structurally sound. Soot from locomotives can still be seen covering the ceilings. The Kamenose tunnels were closed after a landslide in the early 1930s.(IHT/Asahi: December 11,2009)

soot
(su̇t) (materials) Impure black carbon with oily compounds obtained from the incomplete combustion of resinous materials, oils, wood, or coal.

sooty

Pronunciation: /ˈsʊti/

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adjective (sootier, sootiest)

• covered with or coloured like soot:his olive skin and sooty eyes
• used in names of birds and other animals that are mainly blackish or brownish black, e.g. sooty tern.

Derivatives

sootily

adverb

sootiness

noun

about- face
(ə-bout'fās')
n.

1. 1. The act of pivoting to face in the opposite direction from the original, especially in a military formation.
   2. A military command to turn clockwise 180°.
2. A total change of attitude or viewpoint.

intr.v., -faced, -fac·ing, -fac·es.
To reverse direction.
idiom[id・i・om]

 idiom

(ĭd'ē-əm)
n.

1. A speech form or an expression of a given language that is peculiar to itself grammatically or cannot be understood from the individual meanings of its elements, as in keep tabs on.
2. The specific grammatical, syntactic, and structural character of a given language.
3. Regional speech or dialect.
4. 1. A specialized vocabulary used by a group of people; jargon: legal idiom.
   2. A style or manner of expression peculiar to a given people: "Also important is the uneasiness I've always felt at cutting myself off from my idiom, the American habits of speech and jest and reaction, all of them entirely different from the local variety" (S.J. Perelman).
5. A style of artistic expression characteristic of a particular individual, school, period, or medium: the idiom of the French impressionists; the punk rock idiom.

[Late Latin idiōma, idiōmat-, from Greek, from idiousthai, to make one's own, from idios, own, personal, private.]

• 発音記号[ídiəm]

[名]

1 イディオム, 熟語, 成句, 慣用句；慣用語法.

2 （ある民族・国民の）言語；（ある地域・階層の）方言, なまり, （ある言語の）特殊語法, 特質；（ある集団の）仲間ことば；隠語

the idiom of the New England Americans
ニューイングランド地方のアメリカ英語.

3 （音楽・芸術の）作風, 表現形式, （一般に表現方法などの）特徴, 流儀

the idiom of New Orleans jazz
ニューオーリンズ風ジャズ.

［ラテン語←ギリシャ語idiōma （idios自分の＋-ma名詞語尾＝自分で作るもの）］