Phrases & Expressions

To promise in a contract that another party will not be held responsible for a loss or claim.

• The contract includes a hold harmless clause.
• We need to hold them harmless from any future claims.

Having a lot of money, especially suddenly.

• After selling her old house, she was suddenly in the money.
• If this plan works, we will all be in the money.

The belief that information should be freely accessible to everyone without restrictions.

• The activist group believes information wants to be free.
• In the digital age, information wants to be free.

A directive to capture a person alive if possible, but to kill them if necessary.

• The special forces received a kill or capture order.
• The soldiers were sent on a kill or capture mission in the mountains.

To live without spending more money than you earn; to manage your finances carefully.

• They learned to live within their means after the job loss.
• It's important to teach children to live within their means.

To look at someone or something with suspicion or disapproval.

• He looked askance at the stranger in his house.
• The boss looked askance at his late arrival.

Of an option: bringing no profit if used now, because its strike price is worse than the market price.

• The far out of the money puts were cheap insurance against a crash.
• An out of the money option that expires worthless costs the buyer only the premium.

To try to win the favour of someone in authority by flattering that person or being too helpful.

• He always polishes the apple with the boss.
• She was polishing the apple to get a promotion.

To live in a basic or uncomfortable way, without luxuries.

• They had to rough it during their backpacking trip.
• He doesn't mind roughing it in the wilderness.

A sensation of pitching up or down caused by acceleration or deceleration.

• The somatogravic illusion can be disorienting during takeoff.
• Pilots must rely on instruments to counter the somatogravic illusion.