pho Idioma

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blow it up (photo)

enlarge it, magnify it If you want to see details in the photo, blow it up.

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hold the phone

wait a minute, let me think about it """Dad, I'm going to quit school."" ""Hold the phone! Let's talk."""

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phone-in

a radio/TV show that invites phone calls The topic for the phone-in show was Animal Rights.

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phooey

oh no, darn it, nuts, rats, shucks Phooey! I hit my golf ball into the water again!

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photo op

photo opportunity, chance to have your photo taken Then Brian shook hands with students to create a photo op.

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alphonse

London cockney rhyming slang for pence

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Anglophone

a Canadian whose first language is English; also refers to all Canadians who do not speak French

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Megaphone diplomacy

If negotiations between countries or parties are held through press releases and announcements, this is megaphone diplomacy, aiming to force the other party into adopting a desired position.

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Photo finish

A photo finish is when two contestants (usually in a race) finish at almost exactly the same time, making it difficult to determine the winner. (The saying stems from the practice of taking a photograph when the winners cross the finish line to determine who was ahead at the time.)

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photo finish|finish|photo

n. phr. A close finish in a race of people or animals, where the camera must decide the actual result, sometimes by millimeters. The black horse was declared the winner in a photo finish.

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typhoid Mary

typhoid Mary
A carrier or spreader of misfortune, as in I swear he's a typhoid Mary; everything at the office has gone wrong since he was hired. This expression alludes to a real person, Mary Manson, who died in 1938. An Irish-born servant, she transmitted typhoid fever to others and was referred to as “typhoid Mary” from the early 1900s. The term was broadened to other carriers of calamity in the mid-1900s.