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"Take (something) on board" = Xem xét hoặc cân nhắc về thông tin hoặc quan điểm vừa mới trình bày; nhận lãnh (trách nhiệm, nhiệm vụ).
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So any positive or negative experiences people have had, we would like to take it on board. We are here to represent everyone,” she added.
"Our business needs to take on board some important lessons about the way we work with postmasters (trưởng phòng bưu điện), and I am determined that it will do so.
"If it happens, it happens. It's obviously a great honour to take it on board but I can't see that far in the future yet," said Cleary, adding the fact he'd have to convince his father to give him the captaincy wasn't a factor.
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2) everyone (is) aboard!: a signal to the driver or pilot that the trip may begin
Theme: HONESTY
in the open; visible to the public; honest. (Especially with keep, as in the examples. Fixed order.)• Don't keep it a secret. Let's make sure that everything is aboveboard.• You can do whatever you wish, as long as you keep it honest and aboveboard.• The inspector had to make sure that everything was open and aboveboard. affecting all people, applies to everything We want a salary increase across the board - for all positions.adv. phr. 1. So that equal amounts of money are bet on the same horse to win a race, to place second, or third. I bet $6 on the white horse across the board. Often used with hyphens as an adjective. I made an across-the-board bet on the white horse. 2. informal Including everyone or all, so that all are included. The President wanted taxes lowered across the board. Often used with hyphens as an adjective. The workers at the store got an across-the-board pay raise.go back to start a project or idea from the beginning The boss doesnbed and board
Lodging and meals, as in Housekeepers usually earn a standard salary in addition to bed and board. This phrase was first recorded in the York Manual (c. 1403), which stipulated certain connubial duties: “Her I take ... to be my wedded wife, to hold to have at bed and at board.” Later bed was used merely to denote a place to sleep.board
see across the board; back to the drawing board; bed and board; bulletin board; by the board; go overboard; on board; open and aboveboard; room and board; stiff as a board; tread the boards.enclose or seal with boards；take one's meals at the place where one lives用板封闭；在住宿处搭伙The entrance has been boarded in．入口处用板堵住了。
Mr．Smith has a bedroom in his house and boards in．史密斯先生在他家寄宿也在他家吃饭。
take one's meal away from the place where one lives在外用膳The boys are boarded out when their parents are abroad．孩子们在父母出国期间在外用膳。Some of the teachers and staff members board out．有些住在学校的教职工在外搭伙。
checking into the boards, chairman of the boards Boarding causes serious injuries to hockey players.boardinghouse reachReaching across fellow diners for food instead of asking them to pass it. For example, At holiday meals when the whole family is gathered, Dad always scolds at least one child for his boardinghouse reach. This term alludes to the formerly common boardinghouse practice of seating all the residents at one large table and to the rudeness of those who simply reached across others to help themselves. Heard less often today, it is not quite obsolete. [c. 1900]To make people embrace the ideas intended by the leader or agree to join a team or project is to bring them on board.bulletin board
Also, electronic bulletin board. A computer service that provides facilities for people to leave messages by phone or telecomputing. For example, The National Writers Union has a bulletin board through which members communicate via their modems. Both the device and the term, alluding to the older board for posting notices, date from the late 1970s.by the board
Fallen out of use, discarded. This expression usually is put as go by the board, as in With all the crime around here, the practice of leaving the house unlocked has gone by the board. The board here is the board of a ship, and the expression has been used since about 1630 to signify something that has fallen overboard and been carried away. [Mid-1800s]a player who controls play along the boards In the 1970s Doug was chairman of the boards for the Hawks.n. A set of examinations given to test a student's readiness and ability for college. John got a high score on his College Boards. College Boards test both what a student has learned and his ability to learn.cupboard is bare, the
The desired resources are not available, as in The schools are asking for a budget increase but the cupboard is bare. This metaphoric expression may have come from the nursery rhyme: “Old Mother Hubbard, went to the cupboard, to fetch her poor dog a bone, And when she went there, the cupboard was bare, and so the poor dog had none” (Sarah Catherine Martin, The Comic Adventures of Old Mother Hubbard, 1805).(UK) To show love to gain something from someonedrawing board
see back to the drawing board.to have to start again because something didn't work: "Unfortunately the plans didn't work out. We'll have to go back to the drawing board."Idiom(s): go by the board
Theme: RUIN
to get ruined or lost. (This is a nautical expression meaning "to fall or be washed overboard.")• I hate to see good food go by the board. Please eat up so we won't have to throw it out.• Your plan has gone by the board. The entire project has been canceled. v. phr. To go away or disappear forever, be forgotten or not used. Tom had several chances to go to college, but he let them go by the board. Grandfather said he was too old to go to the beach. "Those days have passed by the board," he said.
Compare: DOWN THE DRAIN.become less important, be neglected or omitted When he returned to school, his social life went by the boards.v. phr., informal To act excitedly and without careful thinking. John has gone off the deep end about owning a motorcycle. Mike warned his roommate not to go off the deep end and get married. Some girls go overboard for handsome movie and television actors.do it too much, go off the deep end He goes overboard if he likes a girl - buys her flowers every day.If you go overboard with something, then you take something too far, or do too much.have an unpleasant secret: "There are a lot of skeletons in their cupboard."Idiom(s): aboveboard AND honest and aboveboard; open and aboveboard
Theme: HONESTY
in the open; visible to the public; honest. (Especially with keep, as in the examples. Fixed order.)• Don't keep it a secret. Let's make sure that everything is aboveboard.• You can do whatever you wish, as long as you keep it honest and aboveboard.• The inspector had to make sure that everything was open and aboveboard. loaded on a vehicle, riding on a boat etc. Two thousand passengers were on board the ship to Canada.on board1 prep. On (a ship). Joan was not on board the ship when it sailed.
on board2 adv. or adj. phr. On a ship. The captain was not on board when the S.S. Flandre sailed. A ship was leaving the harbor, and we saw the people on board waving.being discussed at the meeting在会上讨论
The rules and regulations will be laid on the board．这些规章制度将在会上讨论。Idiom(s): aboveboard AND honest and aboveboard; open and aboveboard
Theme: HONESTY
in the open; visible to the public; honest. (Especially with keep, as in the examples. Fixed order.)• Don't keep it a secret. Let's make sure that everything is aboveboard.• You can do whatever you wish, as long as you keep it honest and aboveboard.• The inspector had to make sure that everything was open and aboveboard. adj. phr. Honest. Jacob felt that the firm he was doing business with wasn't entirely open and aboveboard.overboard
see go overboard.Idiom(s): room and board
Theme: LODGING
food to eat and a place to live; the cost of food and lodging. (Fixed order.)• That college charges too much for room and board.• How much is your room and board? n. phr. A room for rent with meals included. A room alone in that country costs only $10 a day, but room and board together run $22 a day.n. Two advertising signs worn by a man, one on his chest and the other on his back. The man walking along Main Street wore a sandwich board saying "Eat at Joe's."a person who listens to ideas or plans Cliff used Linda as a sounding board for his business plans.stiff as a board
Also, stiff as a poker. Inflexible, rigidly formal, unbending, as in This cloth is stiff as a board; what happened to it? or There he stood, stiff as a poker, unwilling to give an inch. The board in the first simile for rigidity is a slab of wood; the second, alluding to the iron implement used to push around logs in open fires, dates from the late 1700s.When someone treads the boards, they perform on stage in a theatre.