irnic.html - See: GET ONE'S DANDER UP or GET ONE'S IRISH UP.

irnic.html - {n.}, {informal} A railroad locomotive; the engine of a railroad train. * /In its first days, the iron horse frightened many people as it roared across country scattering sparks./

irnic.html - {n. phr.} Something you are doing; one of the projects with which a person is busy; job, * /John had a number of irons in the fire, and he managed to keep all of them hot./ - Usually used in the phrase "too many irons in the fire". * /"Ed has a dozen things going all the time, but none of them seem to work out." "No wonder. He has too many irons in the fire."/

irnic.html - {v.}, {informal} To discuss and reach an agreement about (a difference); find a solution for (a problem); remove (a difficulty). * /The company and its workers ironed out their differences over hours and pay./ * /The House and Senate ironed out the differences between their two different tax bills./ Compare: MAKE UP(5).

irnic.html - (Politics) see contra

irnic.html - (Politics) see -gate