{"id":853,"date":"2015-07-28T13:04:29","date_gmt":"2015-07-28T11:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/?p=853"},"modified":"2015-07-28T13:04:29","modified_gmt":"2015-07-28T11:04:29","slug":"idiom-111-dead-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/idiom-111-dead-heat\/","title":{"rendered":"Idiom 111 \u2013 Dead heat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We are currently looking for a new staff member for my team. We&#8217;ve had dozens of applications, but only two have been interesting. We have invited them both for interviews. I hope it becomes clear who is better for us, because at the moment, based on their CVs, it&#8217;s a <em>dead heat (Unentschieden).<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"  wp-image-854 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Triple_dead-heat-231x300.jpg\" alt=\"Triple_dead-heat\" width=\"118\" height=\"153\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Triple_dead-heat-231x300.jpg 231w, http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Triple_dead-heat-789x1024.jpg 789w, http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Triple_dead-heat.jpg 1039w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 118px) 100vw, 118px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Another idiom that comes to us from the world of horse racing \u2013\u00a0where a dead heat is a race in which\u00a0two or more horses finish exactly equal. But why the words &#8222;dead&#8220; and &#8222;heat&#8220;?\u00a0As mentioned in a previous <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/idiom-99-dead-ringer\/\">post<\/a>\u00a0the word <em>dead<\/em>\u00a0also has an additional\u00a0meaning besides <em>not alive.<\/em>\u00a0This meaning &#8211;\u00a0<em>exact<\/em>, or <em>precise<\/em>\u00a0which gives us expressions like <em>deadline, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/idiom-99-dead-ringer\/\">dead ringer<\/a>, <\/em>or dead centre<em>\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/idiom-99-dead-ringer\/\">\u00a0<\/a>&#8211; \u00a0is what is meant in this idiom. A <em>heat <\/em>is the name of a\u00a0qualifying round in a race before the final.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are currently looking for a new staff member for my team. We&#8217;ve had dozens of applications, but only two have been interesting. We have invited them both for interviews. I hope it becomes clear who is better for us, because at the moment, based on their CVs, it&#8217;s a dead heat (Unentschieden). Another idiom [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"__cvm_playback_settings":[],"__cvm_video_id":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[10],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=853"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":857,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853\/revisions\/857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}