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"Flamed out" is to be a star (famous or known) today but not tomorrow.
It is like igniting a match for a cigarette. The flame is there, big and
bright,
and then it is gone quickly.

"boxing out* = boxing / out of ______
Prime time is that time of the evening when the largest number of people 
watch television. Advertisers and programmers want to show their
best during this period of the evening. They decided, though, that
Olympic boxing was not appropriate for that time of the evening.
They decided to keep it [boxing] out of [not to be shown during]
prime time.

"seven figure bonus"
$1,000,000 
One million dollars or more is seven figures.
So this athlete was paid at least one million dollars
just to sign a contract (the bonus) to earn money
boxing.

Larry


LEVISTE <Robert.LEVISTE@wanadoo.fr> wrote in article
<01bd28f6$679c3c00$LocalHost@leviste>...
> Hello!
> My name is Stephane, and I'm a french student in informatic in Paris. 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.
> 
> - boxing out :
> The network decided to keep Olympic boxing out of prime time, even before
> the US team's uninspired Atlanta showing.
> 
> - seven-figure :
> He got a seven-figure bonus to turn pro and made his debut on HBO.
> 
> 
> Thanks very much for your help!!
> 
> 
> -- 
> St�phane
> 

In article <01bd28f6$679c3c00$LocalHost@leviste>, "LEVISTE" <Robert.LEVISTE@wanadoo.fr> writes:
...
|> - 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.

    I think that "flame out" in its literal sense means "loss of
power in a jet engine".  (Anyone confirm or deny this?)  The
metaphorical sense is somewhat like an extreme of "burn out", or
"the flame was too intense to last".

    "Right out of" = "immediately upon leaving".

|> 
|> - 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 "keep boxing out"+"of", but "boxing"+"keep ... out of".  

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

    Number+"figure" means an amount represented in that many
digits.  In this case, the dollar amount is written with seven
numbers: "$1,000,000" up to "$9,999,999".

|> 
|> 
|> Thanks very much for your help!!

    Hope this helps!

-- 
Tom Scharle  scharle.1@nd.edu      "standard disclaimer"

Thomas Scharle wrote:
> 
> In article <01bd28f6$679c3c00$LocalHost@leviste>, "LEVISTE" <Robert.LEVISTE@wanadoo.fr> writes:
> ...
> |> - 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.
> 
>     I think that "flame out" in its literal sense means "loss of
> power in a jet engine".  (Anyone confirm or deny this?)  The
> metaphorical sense is somewhat like an extreme of "burn out", or
> "the flame was too intense to last".
> 
>     "Right out of" = "immediately upon leaving".

Either the phrase is a single unit of three words or it's "out of" 
modified by "right."  "Right out" can stand on its own, without "of" or 
some other preposition, as in "flamed right out," but that is not how it 
is used here.

> |> - 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 "keep boxing out"+"of", but "boxing"+"keep ... out of".

Much the same as with "right out," except that "boxing out" does have a 
specialized use of its own in basketball.  There it refers to what one 
player does to another by keeping that other away from the area around 
the basket so he cannot take an unobstructed shot or grab a rebound.

<snip the rest>

Bob Lieblich

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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