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change the channel Sl. to switch to some other topic of conversation. Just a minute. I think you changed the channel. Let's go back to the part about you owing me money. Let's change the channel here before there is a fight. See also: change channel something in (to something) 1. Lit. to divert water or other liquid through a channel into something. The farmer channeled the irrigation water into the field. 2. Fig. to divert something, such as energy, money, effort, into something. The government channeled a great deal of money into rebuilding the inner part of the city. I can't channel any more of our workforce into this project. channel something off 1. Lit. to drain off water or some other liquid through a channel. The front yard is flooded, and we will have to channel the water off. Let's channel off the water before it gets too deep. 2. Fig. to drain off or waste energy, money, effort, etc. Unemployment channeled their resources off. The war channeled off most of the resources of the country. go through (the proper) channels to use the proper procedure, working through the correct people and offices to get something done; to cooperate with a bureaucracy. I'm sorry. I can't help you. You'll have to go through the proper channels. I didn't get what I wanted because I didn't go through channels. See also: through work through channels Fig. to try to get something done by going through the proper procedures and persons. You can't accomplish anything around here if you don't work through channels. I tried working through channels, but it takes too long. This is an emergency. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Tolkien's "The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son" reads as though Tolkien was imagining himself channelling the missing lines of the fragmentary "The Battle of Maldon. If computerisation is driving Hadid's increasingly complex shell forms (the London Olympic Aquatic Centre, for instance), there's also a bravura sense of branding (Z-Wave, her Z-Scape furniture, a Z-Island kitchen) and glamour (are the new silver paintings somehow channelling Andy Warhol? First, increased funding is required to pay for building up services towards universal access; second, financial protection systems have to be established at the same time as access improves; and third, the channelling of increased funds, both domestic and international, has to guarantee the flexibility and predictability that make it possible to cope with the principal health system constraints, particularly the problems facing the workforce. |
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