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a man's home is his castle	(US) a proverbial expression of personal privacy and security	Rate it: (3.00 / 4 votes)
an englishman's home is his castle	(UK) a proverbial expression of personal privacy and security	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
back up	As a security measure.	Rate it: (4.33 / 3 votes)
bit on the side	Secondary lover, mistress.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
bury the lead	To begin a story with details of secondary importance to the reader while postponing more essential points or facts.	Rate it: (4.50 / 2 votes)
call screening	the process of evaluating the characteristics of a telephone call before deciding how or whether to answer it. Some methods may include: listening to the message being recorded on an answering machine or voice mail. checking a caller ID display to see who or where the call is from.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
check through	To permit someone to continue onward, e.g. through a security checkpoint, after verifying their identity, tickets, etc.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
come into one's own	To reach a stage of development or maturity where one has achieved strength and confidence, economic security, or respect and social acceptance.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
cream of the crop	The best or most desirable among some selection.	Rate it: (3.00 / 1 vote)
double up	To have a secondary use.	Rate it: (2.00 / 2 votes)
drain the swamp when up to one's neck in alligators	(idiomatic) When performing a long and complex task, and when you've gotten utterly immersed in secondary and tertiary unexpected tangential subtasks, it's easy to lose sight of the initial objective. This sort of distraction can be particularly problematic if the all-consuming subtask or sub-subtask is not, after all, particularly vital to the original, primary goal, but ends up sucking up time and resources (out of all proportion to its actual importance) only because it seems so urgent.	Rate it: (3.00 / 2 votes)
final cut	A group, after a selection process getting rid of other candidates.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
go along to get along	To conform in order to have acceptance and security.	Rate it: (3.00 / 2 votes)
grab bag	A gift, purchase, etc. whose contents are concealed until after a selection is made.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
grab bag	Any random assortment, selection or possibility.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
hole	Solitary confinement, a high-security prison cell often used as punishment.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
hole	A security vulnerability in software which can be taken advantage of by an exploit.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
il s'agit bien de cela (ironic.)	That is quite a secondary consideration.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
knock-on effect	A secondary, often unintended effect.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
luck of the draw	A selection rife with low odds of winning. A game of chance. Luck associated with one's propensity for winning.	Rate it: (3.00 / 1 vote)
lucky dip	A selection solely at random.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
managerial inbreeding	Bad management, caused by managers making poor selection choices in recruitment, rewards, and promotions of the staff that report to them, leading to another generation of managers who lack the necessary skill sets to reward and promote the most effective staff.	Rate it: (3.00 / 1 vote)
melt up	Of the price of a security, to increase to an unexpected degree.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
mind the store	To remain present in a retail business, in order to maintain the security of the premises and to serve customers.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
national insurance	state social-security scheme	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
put one's name in the hat	To run in an election or to nominate oneself for consideration in some other selection process; to nominate someone other than oneself for such consideration.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
right to work	The prohibition of union security agreements or closed shops; the prohibition of the requirement that those who take on work in a unionised shop join the union or pay it for representing them.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
roll over	To reinvest funds from a maturing financial security in the same or similar investment.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
seal off	to physically isolate an area or building for security reasons preventing human passage	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
second banana	A comedian who plays a secondary or supporting role, especially as straight man and traditionally in vaudeville or burlesque theatre.	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
second banana	A person who serves in a supporting, secondary, or subsidiary capacity; an assistant.	Rate it: (4.00 / 1 vote)
Security Blanket	An insecure person holding something for emotional and psychological support and comfort	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
settle on	To make a decision or selection; to decide.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
shop around	To actively search and compare options before making a selection or choice of vendor.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
sign in	In order to get into the office after hours, you'll have to sign in at the security desk.	Rate it: (1.00 / 1 vote)
spin off	To create as a by-product or a secondary derived work.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
spoilt for choice	Having such a selection of good choices, that deciding which one to pick is difficult.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
sponsionem facere, sponsorem esse pro aliquo	to be security for some one.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
tail wagging the dog	A minor or secondary part of something controlling the whole.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
Take a Backseat	To be at a secondary position or to be at a level of inferiority as compared to someone else	Rate it: (2.00 / 1 vote)
tiger team	A specialized group tasked with testing the effectiveness of an organization's ability to protect assets by attempting to circumvent, defeat or otherwise thwart that organization's internal and external security.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)