Here is what really happens when you press that green button and transmit your tax return. 1  First, we stamp the return with an electronic postmark, and then we send it to the government. 2  Then we both wait 24 to 48 hours for the IRS to accept your return.
get your lines/wires crossed. if two people get their lines crossed, they do not understand each other correctly. Usage notes: When telephone lines get crossed, a mistake is made and you are connected to the wrong person. Somehow we got our lines crossed because I'd got the 23rd written down in my diary and Jenny had the 16th.
Skew lines. Skew is a pretty cool word, and it sounds like it means something really weird, and it kind of does. It means lines that go any which way. It describes any two lines that aren't either parallel or perpendicular to each other. Most lines are skew to each other. The two lines in this picture are skew to each other. Remember that lines go on forever in both directions. You might have two line segments, where only part of the line was drawn on the paper. If you continued the lines out, though, they would cross each other, and not at right angles.