Log in. Install the app. Forums English Only English Only. JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly. You should upgrade or use an alternative browser. Thread starter susanna76 Start date Mar 29, Hi, I am reading through Cambridge Idioms Dictionary, 2nd ed.
I found this phrase, "get on your bike. Thank you! I beleive this phrase was coined by Norman Tebbit at a Consrvative Party Conference back in the s. I can't provide a source for this, it's based purely on recollection. Edit: Although I know what it means, and it has been used frequently in the media, I have never actually heard it in general usage. So then "on your bike," in common, colloquial usage, means "go away. Egmont Senior Member Massachusetts, U.
The activity might be looking for work, but it might also be something else - such as doing one's schoolwork, preparing dinner, almost anything. It depends on the context. Someone using this expression would know what the context is. Without context, we can't say if it's one thing or another. Oh, interesting.
Numbers awry Confusion over figures continues But ministers - and almost everybody else - got their figures badly wrong. But that does not mean that they are all here - some have come and gone.
And it has been one of the greatest movements of people in Europe in post war history. The figures do not include those who have come here as self employed workers, including the now famous 'Polish plumber'. This compares with 50, people applying to work in the North West in the same period.
Migration benefits But why do we need people from overseas, when so many indigenous people here are still out of work? In a report last year, the Institute for Public Policy Research, or IPPR, said more must be done to "harness the benefits of migration" into the region so as to meet some of the "economic challenges" we face. The report adds that attracting migrants from overseas with the right skills is key to securing future economic growth.
They say the region needs to create around 70, additional jobs over the next 10 years to help boost the economy and attracting more people to live and work in the region - including from overseas - is the only way of achieving this. When compared to other parts of the country, the North East still has very few immigrants - although this is changing rapidly. It sounds like a lot - but to put it in context it is meant a rise from just over 47, people to just over 67, - a small fraction of the whole population.
Points mean Are UKIP taking a draconian stance? And where, according to these figures, had most people come from? You might be surprised to learn the answer is Germany. In , the government is planning to introduce a points based system for people wishing to move here from outside the EU. This means the more skills a person has, and the more demand there is for those skills, the more points they will score - increasing the likelihood they will be allowed to move here.
Perhaps this will mean the region experiences changes in its population that other parts of the country have already seen. But not everyone is convinced that more immigration, or migration, into the UK is necessary or desirable. It also wants far stricter controls on legal immigration - including a work permit system for all people trying to enter the UK from abroad, including the EU.
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You can read some of your comments on the programme here The proverbial Polish Plumber is a reality. Confusion over figures continues.
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