🚀 go-pugleaf

On 24 Jan 1998 18:30:33 GMT, "LEVISTE" <Robert.LEVISTE@wanadoo.fr>
wrote:

...
>. . . I
>have some english lessons of course and I have to do a project. But for it,
>I must translate a text from an American magazine.
>But, I haven't found some difficults words in dictionnaries. If you could
>help me to translate or help me to undersand them, I'll be very glad.
>Here are these words:
>
>- flamed out / right out :
>"Our goal was not to oversaturate, not for her to be a star who flamed
>out", says agent Leigh Steinberg, with whom Strug signed right out of
>Atlanta.

The idiom "flame out" follows the analogy of the failure of a jet
engine due to insufficient fuel or faulty combustion.  When a jet
flames out, it begins to lose momentum and altitude.  When a Hollywood
star flames out, he or she has lost the ability to maintain the hectic
pace demanded of someone of rising popularity, usually due to a lack
of energy or excessive pressure from those around her.

"Right out" means that there was no delay between two events or time
periods. The second event was Strung's signing; the first was not
stated in the sentence but refers to whatever happened in Atlanta
(school, lower rankings, earlier career, or something else).

>- boxing out :
>The network decided to keep Olympic boxing out of prime time, even before
>the US team's uninspired Atlanta showing.

This is not an idiom, it is a literal usage.  Boxing (pugilism) is a
sport featured in the Olympic Games every four years.  In your
sentence, those who manage the television network decided that boxing
was not appropriate viewing (probably due to its violent nature)
during prime time hours (usually 7 p.m. to 11. p.m.).  They kept "it"
(boxing) out of prime time.


>- seven-figure :
>He got a seven-figure bonus to turn pro and made his debut on HBO.

"Seven figures" refers to the count of whole numbers in the money
value of the bonus.  For example, $1,000,000 has seven digits
(figures) in it.


Cheers.



Charles A. Lee
http://www.concentric.net/~azcal

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