Смысл: airlines

airline[ʹeəlaın]
n
<Í> 1. 1) авиалиния
2) воздушная трасса
2. авиакомпания
3. воздухопровод

lines Идиома

along those lines

similar, on the same topic, in that vein He wants a job in health care or nursing, along those lines.

pen those words/lines

write those words or lines, compose that line The medium is the message: Do you know who penned that line?

read between the lines

see what is not written, read the implied message, find the hidden meaning If we read between the lines, the memo says the company is going to be sold.

fluff one's lines

Idiom(s): fluff one's lines AND blow one's lines; muff one's lines

Theme: FORGETFULNESS

to speak one's speech badly or forget one's lines when one is in a play. (Informal.)
• The actress fluffed her lines badly in the last act.
• I was in a play once, and I muffed my lines over and over.
• It's okay to blow your lines in rehearsal.

muff one's lines

drop sb a few lines

Idiom(s): drop someone a line AND drop someone a few lines

Theme: COMMUNICATION - WRITTEN

to write a letter or a note to someone. (The line refers to lines of writing.)
• I dropped Aunt Jane a line last Thanksgiving.
• She usually drops me a few lines around the first of the year.

blow one's lines

Cleanliness is next to godliness.

A clean body is just as important as a pure soul.

Lines of communication

Lines of communication are the routes used to communicate by people or groups who are in conflict; a government might open lines of communication with terrorists if it wished to negotiate with them.

blow one's lines|blow|fluff|fluff one's lines|line

v. phr., informal To forget the words you are supposed to speak while acting in a play. The noise backstage scared Mary and she blew her lines.

read between the lines|between the lines|lines|rea

v. phr. To understand all of a writer's meaning by guessing at what he has left unsaid. Some kinds of poetry make you read between the lines. A clever foreign correspondent can often avoid censorship by careful wording, leaving his audience to read between the lines.

along the lines of

along the lines of
Also, on the lines of. Roughly similar or in keeping with. For example, We told the architect we want a design along the lines of his own house but smaller, or Jane asked the caterer for a menu on the lines of the Morgans' wedding reception. This idiom uses line in the sense of “a direction or procedure,” a usage dating from the early 1600s.

between the lines

between the lines
see read between the lines.

cleanliness is next to godliness

cleanliness is next to godliness
Being clean is a sign of spiritual purity or goodness, as in Don't forget to wash your ears—cleanliness is next to godliness. This phrase was first recorded in a sermon by John Wesley in 1778, but the idea is ancient, found in Babylonian and Hebrew religious tracts. It is still invoked, often as an admonition to wash or clean up.

on the lines of

on the lines of
see along the lines of.

on the sidelines

on the sidelines
Observing rather than taking part, out of the action, as in Bolivia's neighbors remained on the sidelines, waiting to see which faction in the dispute would prevail. This idiom comes from sports. The sidelines are the two lines defining the sides of the court or playing field and the area immediately beyond them where, in such sports as football, the non-playing team members sit. [First half of 1900s]

sidelines

sidelines
see on the sidelines.