(Britain, informal) Used as a fatuous excuse to avoid doing something.

(idiomatic) To prevent someone from continuing along a path or way, literal or figurative, he has begun going along.

To introduce a new rule, law, or system of organisation. / To introduce a person or group of people to an organisation. / To earn money for a company or for the family.

To enter. / To arrive. / To become relevant, applicable, or useful. / To become available. / (of a broadcast, such as radio or television) To have a strong enough signal to be able to be received well.

(chiefly US, idiomatic) Not guilty or not suspected of wrongdoing. / (of a television, radio or data transmission) Transmitted without encryption or scrambling. / (idiomatic) No longer in danger.

(idiomatic) Impending or in the offing; imminent. / (idiomatic) At whereabouts unknown, especially when law enforcement authorities have lost track of one's location.

secretly; confidentially; in private.

(idiomatic, of a person) Imposing, impressive; resolute; manly.

(idiomatic, of a person) Imposingly, impressively; resolutely; manfully.

(of a person) To ride a horse in an erect, imposing manner. / (idiomatic, by extension) To act or conduct oneself in a manner that is imposing, impressive, resolute, or manly.