2018年3月29日 星期四

swoop, Day Job, till and register, (make a) run for it

Son’s Not Running for Cover in SoftBank’s Swiss Re Swoop: Gadfly https://wapo.st/2pN1FM8
The billionaire's desire for deals is insatiable.
BLOOMBERG.COM


Modern physics is a weird beast, and it was Stephen Hawking's day job to make it weirder

 Retail workers demand state aid to keep tills ringing in Germany

Marathon talks took place in Berlin this week to decide the fate of
Germany’s troubled carmaker, Opel. But the car-maker is not the only
high profile victim of the global financial crisis.

The DW-WORLD Article
http://newsletter.dw-world.de/re?l=ew0yscI44va89pI2


Tesco now controls almost a third of the UK grocery market, and one pound in every seven spent in all British shops goes through its tills. The retailer, which made profits last year of £2.6 billion, has been accused of creating "Tesco towns", where it has almost total dominance.



day job Meaning in the Cambridge English Dictionary

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/day-job

day job meaning, definition, what is day job: a job that you do to earn money so that you can do something else that you prefer but…. Learn more.

Urban Dictionary: Day Job

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Day%20Job

The talentless job you're currently working for just to make money, while in the process of following the career path you are working on and that you actually really want. Like a musician that wants to be a rockstar, he/she works at a cafe or some place just to get some cash in the meantime, because they're not actually ...

(make a) run for it

PHRASE

  • Attempt to escape someone or something by running away.
    ‘Catherine wondered whether to make a run for it’

swoop

VERB

  • 1no object, with adverbial of direction (especially of a bird) move rapidly downwards through the air.
    ‘the barn owl can swoop down on a mouse in total darkness’
    ‘the aircraft swooped in to land’
    1. 1.1 Carry out a sudden attack, especially in order to make a capture or arrest.
      ‘armed police swooped on a flat after a tip-off’
  • 2informal with object Seize with a swooping motion.
    ‘she swooped up the hen in her arms’
till
(MONEY DRAWER) [C] (US USUALLY ) MAINLY UK
the drawer in a cash register (= a machine which records sales in a shop, and in which money is kept) or the cash register itself:

Next time you have the till open, could you give me some change?I think these items have been rung up wrongly on the till.

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