Tuesday, 5 November 2013

cagey; play ball with sb; with abandon, not by a long shot/chalk; mental block, brain freeze;

用法学习: 1. cagey I. 小心谨慎的. wary, careful, shrewd. But with both sides in the Premier League's bottom three before the game began, the three points at stake made for a cagey match.  a cagey avoidance of a definite answer. a cagey manner; a cagey reply. II. 不想说的, 不愿透漏的. uncommunicative; unwilling or hesitant to give information. not open or frank; cautious; wary. Why do you sound cagey? III. 精明的. Crafty; shrewd: a cagey lawyer. would rather would more willingly; would more readily. I would rather have an apple than a pear. I don't like pears. I'd rather live in the north than the south, because I like snow. Sorry, I would rather not say and keep this secret. 2. Ingrown hair 内张毛发 is a condition where hair curls back or grows sideways into the skin. The ingrown hair condition is seen primarily among people having curly hair. It may or may not be accompanied by an infection of the hair follicle (folliculitis) or "razor bumps" (pseudofolliculitis barbae), which vary in size. While ingrown hair most commonly appears in areas where the skin is shaved or waxed (beard, legs, pubic region), it can appear anywhere. Anything which causes the hair to be broken off unevenly with a sharp tip can cause ingrown hairs. Shaving is the leading cause主要原因, followed by waxing and tight clothing. Symptoms include rash, itching skin, hair which remains in spite of shaving, and infection and pus collecting under skin. Treatments for ingrown hairs include putting a warm washcloth over the ingrown hair, shaving in a different direction, tweezing, exfoliating with facial scrubs, sponges, towels, or creams containing acids, and ibuprofen or other non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs). There are a few precautions 预防措施 that can be taken to prevent ingrown hairs including proper shaving techniques and preparation of the skin before shaving. When shaving, applying the proper amount of lubrication (in the form of shaving cream, gel, or soap) is important to prevent the hair from being forced underneath the surface of the skin. Also the application of too much force with a razor can contribute to hair that is cut shorter than the surrounding dermis. 3. Lady Gaga Kicks 'Dope' in New Song: The turning point in so many relationships occurs when someone first says "I love you." In Lady Gaga's latest ARTPOP single, "Dope," it's when she proclaims, "I need you more than dope." The song finds Gaga in a darkly maudlin mood, pounding away at her piano while she belts out the lyrics with abandon 毫无顾忌的, 肆无忌惮的 ( abandon freedom from inhibitions, restraint, concern, or worry. She danced with abandon. ). When the song begins with a soft, Elton John-esque piano cadence, Gaga sings some stridently slurred lines about knowing she's "fucked up again" and how she lost her "only friend," but by the end of the song, after some triumphant choruses, she's clearly singing that romantic sweet-nothing, "I need you more than dope." The chorus is the song's emotional high point as she promises she'll keep searching for a way to get better. Cover art for the single depicts a pants-less Gaga in jacket with squared-off shoulders, bruises or blood on her legs and a corroded set of teeth in what may be a smile, or what maybe a Walking Dead­-style zombie grin. It's a look she replicated in part for her performance of "Dope" at the YouTube Music Awards last night in New York. She had been nominated for Video of the Year for "Applause,"  another track on ARTPOP, but lost to the K-pop group Girls Generation for their "I Got a Boy" clip. 4. 关于IPad Update: Just in case anyone is in my situation... No expert at this, not by a long chalk(not by a long chalk/shot 连边都不沾, 都不沾边, 差远了 something that you say when you think something is not at all true. 'Do you think it's as good as her last movie?' 'No, not by a long shot.' It's not over yet, not by a long chalk, we still have a very good chance of winning. not a patch on sth/sb. not even close. )! I have an Ipad2 it was jailbroken on 5 something. Then things I had installed started to not work properly so I decided to update. Read this thread and more. At first iTunes refused to play ball ( play ball [with sb] (slang) to agree to do what you have been told or encouraged to do. He was warned to keep his mouth shut and play ball, and that's pretty much what he did. Critics say the agency has been pressured to play ball with drug companies. Fourteen out of the fifteen nations have agreed to the new restrictions but one country still refuses to play ball. Usage notes: often used to suggest that you do not approve of what you are told to do. Etymology: play ball is said to start a baseball game by the official who controls the game. go along (with somebody/something) 同意, 放行, 批准, 开绿灯 to accept something someone else wants. The agreement will make them the highest-paid pilots in the industry, if union members go along. The president has announced a plan to cut taxes, and Congress is likely to go along with it. play along (with somebody/something) to seem to support or be friendly to someone or something. to pretend to cooperate with someone or something in a joke, scam, etc. I decided that I would play along with Larry for a while and see what would happen. I don't think I want to play along. He knew that if he didn't play along with the reporters, they would write unpleasant stories about him. I don't really like their idea that much but for now, it is probably a good idea simply to play along. ) and I updated that. Now I have 7.0.3 but of course I lost all my data and apps. Waiting for the latest jailbreak so I can start to get back to where I was! 5. make out I. To discern or see, especially with difficulty: I could barely make out the traffic signs through the rain. II. To understand: could not make out what she said. III. To write out; draw up: made out the invoices. IV. To fill in (a form, for example). V. Informal To represent as being: made me out to be a liar. VI. Informal To try to establish or prove: He made out that he was innocent. I told you this last week, why are you making out that you never heard of this befor?. VII. To get along in a given way; fare: made out well in business. VIII.  Slang a. To neck; pet. b. To have sexual intercourse. 6. newsflash [ˈnjuːzˌflæʃ] n. a brief item of important news, often interrupting a radio or television programme. sweaty She was hot and sweaty. I am a sweaty mess. sweat like a pig  (informal) to sweat (= have liquid coming out of your skin) a lot. I was so nervous, I was sweating like a pig. 凯恩斯事故: The man was allegedly acting aggressively and yelling at the woman, thought to be his partner. A male neighbour then intervened and tried to restrain 制服, 制住, 制止 the man( refrain v. To hold oneself back; forbear: refrained from swearing. n. I. A phrase, verse, or group of verses repeated at intervals throughout a song or poem, especially at the end of each stanza. a regularly recurring melody, such as the chorus of a song. 关于Single Ladies: According to the lyrics, the female protagonist is in a club to celebrate after a recent end to a poor relationship; her former lover is also present. The song and the repeated refrain, "If you like it then you should have put a ring on it", are directed to him. Critics praised the song for its smooth production and noted its similarity to Knowles' 2007 single "Get Me Bodied".  II. a much repeated saying or idea. ). Two or three other men then went to his aid to help restrain the man. Police arrived shortly after. Despite the fact the man was already unconscious when police arrived, it is technically a death in custody and will be investigated by the Ethical Standards Command. The deceased man was held down制服, 按倒在地 by residents outside his Cairns home as they attempted to intervene when he allegedly attacked two women on Saturday night. 7. maintain I. 坚守, 坚持. To defend or hold against criticism or attack. to defend against physical attack: maintained his stand on taxes. II. 坚持说, 坚持认为. (takes a clause as object)  To declare to be true; affirm.to state or assert. to defend against contradiction; uphold. He maintained that Talbot was wrong. maintained her innocence. I sent her a text asking about saying me a pinup boy, she was maintaining some one else wrote the script she just read it out. III. To adhere or conform to; keep: maintain a busy schedule. IV. 维修维护. to keep in proper or good condition to maintain a building. V. 支撑. to support a style of living. the money maintained us for a month. pinup = pin-up I. A photograph, printed in a magazine or other publication, of a sexually attractive person (often nude or provocatively dressed), and intended to be removed and pinned up on a wall. II. The person so depicted. III. (figuratively) figurehead, person who represents an idea, cause etc. She was Nicolas Sarkozy's pin-up for diversity, the first Muslim woman with north African parents to hold a major French government post. But Rachida Dati has now turned on her own party elite with such ferocity that some have suggested she should be expelled from the president's ruling party. centerfold I. 中间折页人物. The single sheet of paper that forms the middle two pages of a magazine or other publication. II. A large photograph printed on this sheet, typically in the form of a nude, or provocatively dressed, sexually attractive woman or man. III. The person appearing in such a photograph. IV. Any very sexually attractive person, who is therefore material for such a photograph. 8. grouch =  bitter bitch 爱抱怨的人, 爱生气的人, 脾气不好的人 A person who acts as a bitter bitch. One who is grumpy or irritable. You are such a grouch. I don't feel like hanging around with that grouch. He spent all his time grouching about the problem instead of fixing it. bitter bitch syndrome When a bitch is bitter about her (his) life and the things that have happened to him (her) and decides to take it out on the world. She (he) will most likely do this pathologically with little hope for a cure. A guy (girl) gets dumped because of their own inadequacies and decides it's everybody's fault but their own, this is bitter bitch syndromeone jump/move ahead (of someone or something) 领先一步 Fig. one step in advance of someone or something. to do something before other people do it: The way to be successful in business is always to stay one jump ahead of your competitors. Try to stay one jump ahead of the competition. If you're one move ahead, you're well prepared to deal with problems. Then, nothing is a surprise. Show you are interested by: avoid interrupting/jumping ahead抢跑, 过于着急, 过于急迫. Do not show your impatience by jumping ahead eg to the next point or chapter when a person is still on the preceding one. To jump ahead means advancing quicker than the others. If the teacher tells you to read until chapter 2 and then starts the lesson at chapter 5, she is "jumping ahead". jump to go past or away from something illegally or wrongly: The police video showed that she had jumped the (traffic) lights闯红灯. Several sailors jumped ship (= left their ship without permission) in New York. jump bail: to fail to appear for a court trial after being released until the trial in exchange for payment: I'd never have thought Hugh would jump bail. 9. Google Chrome might finally secure its passwords soon: If the open-source Chromium browser is any indication, Google Chrome might finally be getting a setting to secure its users' saved account passwords from prying eyes. Google copped flak earlier( flak, flack [flæk] 遭受批评 Informal a great deal of adverse criticism. get/take (the) flak  (informal) to receive strong criticism (often + from ) Channel 4 took the flak from angry viewers protesting about the show. (often + for ) She got a lot of flak for deserting her children. ) this year for storing users' passwords for website log-ins in plain text in Chrome, meaning anyone using a computer could view the details for any stored log-ins. It didn't even allow a master password to be set as a gatekeeper before viewing the passwords list, and the passwords themselves were easily accessible through the Chrome settings menu. 10. halve [hɑ:v] I. 减半, 砍去一半. To divide (something) into two equal portions or parts. II. To lessen or reduce by half: halved the recipe to serve two. III. Informal To share (something) equally: The twins halve everything.

The Nexus 5 isn't pure Android, it's pure Google: Lockheimer notes that since the core UI and visuals haven't needed overhauling大改, the company has been able to focus on adding more features and plumbing to fill out the platform's capabilities(I. (transitive): To complete a form or questionnaire with requested information. Please fill out this application if you are interested in the job. II. 变肥 (intransitive): To have one's physique expand with maturity or with surplus weight. He began to fill out once he started college.). Director of engineering Dave Burke describes "KitKat as having a very long tail set of features(长尾效应. 指Amazon, Netflix等网站的经济模式. 指原来不受重视的销量小但种类繁多的产品或服务用于总量巨大, 累积起来的总收益超过主流产品的现象, 这迥异于经典的20%产品创造80%收益的理论. In statistics, a long tail of some distributions of numbers is the portion of the distribution having a large number of occurrences far from the "head" or central part of the distribution. The distribution could involve popularities, random numbers of occurrences of events with various probabilities, etc. A probability distribution is said to have a long tail, if a larger share of population rests within its tail than would under a normal distribution. A long-tail distribution will arise with the inclusion of many values unusually far from the mean, which increase the magnitude of the skewness of the distribution. A long-tailed distribution is a particular type of heavy-tailed distribution. The term long tail has gained popularity in recent times as describing the retailing strategy of selling a large number of unique items with relatively small quantities sold of each – usually in addition to selling fewer popular items in large quantities. The distribution and inventory costs of businesses successfully applying this strategy allow them to realize significant profit out of selling small volumes of hard-to-find items to many customers instead of only selling large volumes of a reduced number of popular items. The total sales of this large number of "non-hit items" is called "the long tail". The long tail is the name for a long-known feature of some statistical distributions (such as Zipf, power laws, Pareto distributions and general Lévy distributions). In "long-tailed" distributions a high-frequency or high-amplitude population is followed by a low-frequency or low-amplitude population which gradually "tails off" asymptotically. The events at the far end of the tail have a very low probability of occurrence. As a rule of thumb, for such population distributions the majority of occurrences (more than half, and where the Pareto principle applies, 80%) are accounted for by the first 20% of items in the distribution 百分20的产品创造了百分80的收益. What is unusual about a long-tailed distribution is that the most frequently occurring 20% of items represent less than 50% of occurrences; or in other words, the least frequently occurring 80% of items are more important as a proportion of the total population.). And it's a sign that at a platform level, we've reached a certain level of maturity. He also expresses hope that this latest version of Android will help address the other issues that have plagued 困扰 Android, such as how long it takes for other device manufacturers to release the latest version. "With each subsequent version of Android we don't have to redesign or re-engineer core parts of it," he says.  "So that makes it easier and faster for device manufacturers to bring up their next devices." Both Burke and Lockheimer are optimistic that the memory changes in KitKat, which make it easier to run on low-end devices, will also accelerate adoption加速采用率. Previous Nexus devices acted as standard-bearers for a clean, stock version of Android and showcased Google services. The Nexus 5 still does that, but the order of importance seems to have been flipped顺序反了过来. Google told us that the new Launcher on the Nexus 5 is exclusive to the phone — though the company may change its mind and offer it for the Nexus 4 and perhaps even put it on the Play store someday. For now, Google wants to see how users take to the Launcher on Nexus 5 before it offers it on other devices. The "Google-ness" of the Nexus 5 goes well beyond the new Nexus 5 Launcher. Hangouts is the default SMS app on the Nexus 5 — and though the SMS integration will be available on other devices soon, the fact that Google didn't even deign to include Android's stock messaging app is telling足够说明情况了. Users can download and use another SMS app if they prefer, but for Lockheimer the benefits of sticking with Hangouts is obvious. "Unification ... is just a better user experience," he says. "We've merged three icons into one, and it's just a lot easier for people to understand that." The phone dialer, too, gets the Google treatment. It integrates Google's local search features to let you hunt for businesses without having to go into another app. And, from Google's perspective在...看来, why not take advantage of all of the tools at its disposal( something is at your disposal something is available to be used by you. The committee has limited resources at its disposal. We have $100,000 at our disposal to provide food for homeless people. Usage notes: sometimes used in the form at the disposal of someone: More powerful guns are at the disposal of criminals than ever before. somebody is at your disposal 随叫随到 someone is available to help you. I know there is plenty of work to do, so my daughter is at your disposal.  )? That edge is something that the likes of Samsung, HTC, and LG are going to have to consider very carefully. They'll need to either accept that Google is getting a bigger place on their home screens, try to compete directly with Google's services, or simply offer a version of Android that many will consider stripped down ( 不完整的. 缺点东西的, 缺了点什么的. Having only essential or minimal features; lacking anything extra. reduced to the bare essentials; spare. a stripped-down stage setting; a stripped-down budget.) when compared to the Nexus experience. We don't know what each of these companies will do yet, but it won't be an easy choice. For the first time, the rest of the Android ecosystem might have to start taking the Nexus seriously, too. Google's services truly do give the Nexus 5 an edge, and the thing about edges is that they can cut.

A mental block( brain freeze. I. 压抑性失忆. II. 思路受阻. III. 忽然想不起来, 脑袋短路. ) is either a repression of painful thoughts, or an inability to continue a train of thought, like in the case of writer's block. A similar phenomenon occurs when one cannot solve a problem in mathematics which one would normally consider simple. In the case of writer's block, many find it helpful to take a break and revisit their topic. Another tactic that is used when people with mental blocks are learning new information is repetition. Mental blocks can be caused by physical disabilities or simply a lack of focus. Mental blocks are also often used to describe a temporary inability to recall a name or other information. brain freeze大脑短路: The tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon (TOT), sometimes called presque vu, is the failure to retrieve a word from memory, combined with partial recall and the feeling that retrieval is imminent. The phenomenon's name comes from the saying, "It's on the tip of my tongue." People in a tip-of-the-tongue state can often recall one or more features of the target word, such as the first letter, its syllabic stress, and words similar in sound and/or meaning. Individuals report a feeling of being seized by the state, feeling something like mild anguish while searching for the word, and a sense of relief when the word is found. While many aspects of the tip-of-the-tongue state remain unclear, there are two major competing explanations for its occurrence, the direct-access view and the inferential view. The direct-access view posits that the state occurs when memory strength is not enough to recall an item, but is strong enough to trigger the state. The inferential view posits that the state occurs when the subject infers knowledge of the target word, and tries to piece together different clues about the word that are accessible in memory. Emotional-induced retrieval often causes more TOT experiences than an emotionally-neutral retrieval, such as asking where a famous icon was assassinated rather than simply asking the capitol city of a state. TOT states should be separated from FOK (Feeling of Knowing judgement) states. FOK, in contrast, is the feeling that one will be able to recognize - from a list of items - an item that is currently inaccessible. There are still currently opposing articles of the separability of the process underlying these concepts. However there is some evidence that TOTs and FOKs draw on different parts of the brain. An occasional tip-of-the-tongue state is normal for people of all ages. TOT becomes more frequent as people age. TOT is only a medical condition when it becomes frequent enough to interfere with learning or daily life. This disorder is called Anomic aphasia when acquired by brain damage, usually from a head injury, stroke, or dementia. The tip of the tongue phenomenon has implications for research in psycholinguistics, memory, and metacognition. An ice-cream headache, also known as brain freeze, cold-stimulus headache, or its given scientific name sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia (meaning "nerve pain of the sphenopalatine ganglion"), is a form of brief cranial pain or headache commonly associated with consumption (particularly quick consumption) of cold beverages or foods such as ice cream and ice pops. It is caused by having something cold touch the roof of the mouth上颚 (palate), and is believed to result from a nerve response causing rapid constriction and swelling of blood vessels or a "referring" of pain from the roof of the mouth to the head. The rate of intake for cold foods has been studied as a contributing factor. There are people who cannot experience "brain freeze" or similar symptoms. Typically, the headache appears in about 10 seconds and lasts about 20 seconds, though some people experience much longer lapses of pain; the pain seems to relate to the same side of the head, as the cold substance was applied to the palate, or to both sides of the head in the case of swallowing. The most effective way to prevent it is to consume the cold food or liquid at a slower rate. Keeping it in one's mouth long enough for the palate to become used to the temperature is also an effective preventative防治措施, 预防措施.

 广播节目收视: bunfight ['bʌnˌfait] n Brit slang I. a tea party. a tea party or other function, typically of a grand or official kind. A formal but friendly tea party held by an organisation either annually, or to mark some occasion. II. a petty squabble or argument. a heated argument or exchange: a public bunfight has arisen between the authors of the report. With one survey to go, breakfast pair, Kyle and Jackie O, look to go out on top, but also bring about an FM bun fight口水战. "The show's leaving on a high," said Austereo's head of content Guy Dobson. "It's a great show and it's one of those legendary broadcasting shows like Hamish and Andy and Martin Molloy. They deserve that result." Kyle Sandilands and Jackie O have served up a timely reminder of what 2Day FM will be missing next year as they recorded their best result in a year. The duo dominated the FM breakfast market and overtook 超过 ABC 702's Adam Spencer for the first time in more than two years, to claim second in the breakfast market overall. "We've been severely underdone ( Not sufficiently cooked: an underdone turkey. ) with surveys this year," said Dobson. "That's not taking away from the methodology 方法学( take away [sth] from someone or something 减去, 减弱, 削弱, 吸引注意力 to lessen the value or esteem of someone or something; to detract from someone or something. to reduce the praise earned by a person or group. She did a lot to help people, and no one should ever try to take that away from her. We made some mistakes, but I don't want to take anything away from Iowa State - they played a great game. The fact that she is quiet does not take away from her one bit. The huge orange spot in the center of the painting takes away from the intense green of the rest of the work. Etymology: based on the literal meaning of take away (to remove or subtract one thing from another).  not one/a bit not in any way. I'm not a bit happy with this bag - it was very expensive and already needs repair . That movie is not one bit scary, but then I haven't seen a movie yet this year that really is. ). It was just one of those things where the luck of the draw 幸运女神 didn't happen for us as the year progressed. "We knew this result was on the cards( in/on the cards very likely to happen. I think winning the World Series this year is definitely in the cards for Boston. Some reports suggest that a tax cut is still on the cards. Etymology: based on the use of tarot cards (a set of cards with pictures representing different parts of life) that are believed to be able to show what will happen in the future. ) at some stage. The cards fell our way this survey, so we're happy with it." Austereo's competitors disagree though, suggesting the high-profile team's planned exit has inspired the ratings jump. "All that's really happened in Sydney is that Kyle and Jackie O have had a tickle upwardstickled pink/to death Informal to please greatly. Very pleased; delighted: He was tickled pink to be elected president. I was tickled pink by the compliment. Bill told a joke that really tickled us all pink. I know that these flowers will tickle her pink. tickle I. to amuse or delight: The clown's antics tickled the kids. II. To tease or excite pleasurably; titillate: suspense that tickles the reader's curiosity引起好奇心. III. 引起虚荣心. to excite agreeably; gratify: to tickle someone's vanity. IV. 痒痒的. A feeling resembling the result of tickling. I have a persistent tickle in my throat. tickle someone to death I. Fig. to tickle someone a great deal. Bobby nearly tickled Tim to death. Tim was left breathless. We got him down and tickled him to death. II. = tickle someone to pieces 乐开了花, 乐得合不拢嘴 Fig. to please someone a great deal. What you told her just tickled her to death! That story just tickles me to pieces.) because they were the big story during survey seven," says DMG's program director Paul Jackson. "That story was: Are they staying? Are they going? Will they resign or not? You've got that as a bit of scandal, a bit of fuel to that station. That's lifted their whole station." With Friday's on-air confirmation from the pair that they are leaving 2Day FM at year's end, the story now turns to their destination, with ARN confirming over the weekend that they were in talks with the pair to join Mix FM. "Talks have commenced, nothing's been agreed though," said ARN's content director Duncan Campbell. "We've never shied away from the fact 从不讳言 that the success of our network is based around attracting and retaining talent." Campbell would not be drawn on the ramifications for current Mix breakfast hosts Sami Lukis and Yumi Stynes, whose show has struggled in the ratings all year. "We put a lot of work into that show. As have the two girls. It just hasn't had the traction 吸力 that we would have expected." "I don't believe Kyle and Jackie O are a good fit for Mix. You're mixing apples and pears there( A comparison of apples and oranges occurs when two items or groups of items are compared that cannot be practically compared. The idiom, comparing apples and oranges, refers to the apparent differences between items which are popularly thought to be incomparable or incommensurable, such as apples and oranges. The idiom may also be used to indicate that a false analogy has been made between two items, such as where an apple is faulted for not being a good orange. mix apples and oranges (idiomatic) To mix two totally different things. apples and oranges (idiomatic) Said of a comparison of items that are not comparable. It's apples and oranges. You can't convert square meters to linear inches. Comparing the grades of English students to Engineering students is like trying to compare apples and oranges. apples to apples, apples with apples, apples to apples, oranges to oranges). It's a very dangerous thing to do. "I don't think there are many great acts, whether on TV or radio down the years, that have swapped sides and continue to do well. I think it will confuse the audience, create a lot of flux in the market place. I think the great beneficiaries of that would be  Smooth and Nova and all bets are off after that(All bets are off 就不好说了, 说不准了, 什么都有可能发生 If all bets are off, then agreements that have been made no longer apply. Indicates that a future event appears uncertain, especially one that before seemed more certain. the outcome of a situation is unpredictable: when they get lonely all bets are off. )." "If you take Kyle and Jackie O out of 2Day FM you haven't got a lot of depth behind that, and you can see that in the performances in Melbourne, Perth, Adelaide and Brisbane frankly," said Jackson. "That bodes very well then for the number two and number three stations in Sydney, which would be Nova and Smooth." "It obviously is a huge blow and will present a huge challenge," said Campbell. "We know how difficult it is to build breakfast shows, as they do. They've struggled in Brisbane and Adelaide all year to build a successful show. They've now got to build two breakfast shows in the two biggest markets in the country. Still, this survey, which measured audience figures for the period from August 11 to October 26, represented a big win for 2Day FM across the board 全面胜利, with significant jumps recorded in every time slot. All eyes are on the Sydney FM market, however, and while 2Day celebrate, they are aware they will need to reset the board, just as they have moved into a winning position. The entire schedule is in flux, as the new breakfast line-ups required for Sydney and Melbourne have potential knock-on effects 间接影响(When an event or situation has a knock-on effect, it causes other events or situations, but not directly. A secondary, often unintended effect; a repercussion. If a coach arrives late, it has a knock-on effect on the entire coach stationIf one or two trains run late, it has a knock-on effect on the entire rail service.) if teams from other slots are moved into those key positions. "We are always looking at what we can do to tweak, to make it better," said Dobson. "Other time slots will be looked at on [2Day and Triple M]. That includes nationally, as well as Sydney."