stand in the gap イディオム

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bridge the gap

help people communicate, mediate When the staff and the manager fight, I try to bridge the gap.

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fill the gap

fill an empty space, help where there is work to do Pam filled the gap when I got injured. She played in my place.

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geezer gap

the differences between people aged 60 and 80 The word senior includes everyone in the geezer gap.

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gap

1. the vagina
2. the mouth
3. a look, a glance
4. to stand and stare, esp. at a crime and not take part

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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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Mind the gap

Mind the gap is an instruction used on the Underground in the UK to warn passengers to be careful when leaving the tube or train as there is quite a distance between the train and the platform.

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credibility gap|credibility|gap

n., hackneyed phrase, politics An apparent discrepancy between what the government says and what one can observe for oneself. There was a tremendous credibility gap in the USA during the Watergate years.

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fill (in) the gap|fill|fill in the gap|fill the ga

v. phr. To supply a missing piece of information; provide a clue during the course of solving a mystery. Sherlock Holmes said, "These fingerprints are bound to fill the gap in our investigation."

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generation gap|gap|generation

n., informal, hackneyed phrase The difference in social values, philosophies, and manners between children and their parents, teachers and relatives which causes a lack of understanding between them and frequently leads to violent confrontations. My daughter is twenty and I am forty, but we have no generation gap in our family.

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credibility gap

credibility gap
Distrust of a public statement or position, as in The current credibility gap at City Hall is the result of miscommunication between the mayor's office and the press. This term originated about 1960 in connection with the American public's disinclination to believe government statements about the Vietnam War. It soon was extended to individuals and corporations as well as government agencies to express a lack of confidence in the truth of their statements, or perception of a discrepancy between words and actions.

stand in the gap

To accept a position of active, adamant aegis (for or adjoin something). From Ezekiel 22:30: "And I approved for a man amid them that should accomplish up the barrier and angle in the gap afore Me for the land, that I should not abort it; but I begin none." We are all alleged to angle in the gap to avert what we apperceive in our hearts to be about actual and essential.Learn more: gap, stand

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